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Defining ‘Woke’ (a Word We Should Probably All Stop Using)

It’s fine to concede the (originally) progressive nature of wokeism, so long as we also call out the movement’s betrayal of core liberal values

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Defining ‘Woke’ (a Word We Should Probably All Stop Using)
A photo of one of the many wokeness-themed T-shirts for sale on Etsy.

In the (unlikely) event that my grandchildren ever ask me for a capsule summary of the culture wars of the late 2010s and early 2020s, I may simply direct them to two viral clips, both starring women who’d been asked to define a contentious word.

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