Woke: A Guide to Social Justice

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According to The Economist, as the term woke and the #Staywoke hashtag began to spread online, the term "began to signify a progressive outlook on a host of issues as well as on race". [19] I have always said that in a feeding frenzy, phiranha will kill each other. This is what will happen to the woke as well. The weapons you arm those you deploy to do your enforcing, will eventually be turned on you. Hartley, John (2020). Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts (5thed.). Routledge. pp.290–291. ISBN 978-1-3518-4801-5.

Calcutt, Clea (October 19, 2021). "French education minister's anti-woke mission". Politico . Retrieved November 27, 2022. NBC News sent public records requests to nearly 100 school districts in the Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin regions — a small sampling of the state’s 1,250 public school systems — and found 86 formal requests to remove books from libraries last year, the vast majority coming during the final four months of the year. Several titles were targeted in multiple districts. Songwriter Georgia Anne Muldrow, who composed "Master Teacher" in 2005, told Okayplayer news and culture editor Elijah Watson that while she was studying jazz at New York University, she learned the invocation Stay woke from Harlem alto saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin, who used the expression in the meaning of trying to "stay woke" because of tiredness or boredom, "talking about how she was trying to stay up – like literally not pass out". In homage, Muldrow wrote stay woke in marker on a T-shirt, which over time became suggestive of engaging in the process of the search for herself (as distinct from, for example, merely personal productivity). [18] "#StayWoke" hashtag on a placard during a December 2015 protest in Minneapolis Thomas, Tobi (March 16, 2021). " 'Woke' culture is threat to protest songs, says Don Letts". The Guardian.In Hungary, Hungarian politician Balázs Orbán stated that "we [Hungary] will not give up fighting against woke ideology". [66] Ramaswamy clearly endorses shareholder capitalism and valorizes the fiduciary duty of an increasingly belligerent managerial class that they have to their shareholders. Both public and private, Ramaswamy scolds the managerial class for trying to seize both state and corporate power from the people and the shareholders, respectively. Ramaswamy argues that shareholder capitalism ensures that corporations stay in their lanes and not take up social causes, deceiving the public and profiting nonetheless. I certainly think there is a case to be made for this but there is a glaring problem with this logic: why is shareholder capitalism actually good for society in its own right? He never explains how increasing short term profits for a small group of people is a win for the public good. And the reason he doesn’t explain it is because it isn’t good. Wealth concentration is bad. And it’s bad for some of the very reasons he talks about: that wealth power spills over to public control. I very much agree with his assessment of section 230 and how our tech overlords are subverting democracy and the public good. His best point is that corporations shouldn’t dictate what is moral and ethical and they definitely do by their default power that they leverage from cultural liberalism. Mamane, Eliott (March 14, 2023). " «Aux États-Unis, l'élection présidentielle pourrait être déterminée par le clivage entre “woke” et “anti-woke”»". Le Figaro. There is a pay gap for women, but you can identify as a man. Do bilogical men that identify as a woman get paid less?

There’s a new invisible force at work in our economic and cultural lives. It affects every advertisement we see and every product we buy, from our morning coffee to a new pair of shoes. “Stakeholder capitalism” makes rosy promises of a better, more diverse, environmentally-friendly world, but in reality this ideology championed by America’s business and political leaders robs us of our money, our voice, and our identity. Despite its inherently pessimistic nature, woke is hopeful. To search for Badu’s beautiful world requires the belief that one is out there – or at least, capable of being made.By 2019, the term woke was increasingly being used in an ironic sense, as reflected in the books Woke by comedian Andrew Doyle (using the pen name Titania McGrath) and Anti-Woke by columnist Brendan O'Neill. [39] a b c Smith, Allan; Kapur, Sahil (May 2, 2021). "Republicans are crusading against 'woke' ". NBC News. The contrast between capitalism and the caste system was striking. Living in Kerala every summer as a kid made me miss America. Capitalism was the first ideal I really loved, the first time I’d ever loved a system. Capitalism brought people together; the caste system kept them apart.

For Spiegelman, it has meant an exponential sales boost for a 30-year-old book – the only graphic novel to win a Pulitzer prize, in 1992 – and a flurry of speaking engagements across the country. “It just shows,” he says, “you can’t ban books unless you’re willing to burn them and you can’t burn them all unless you’re willing to burn the writers and the readers too.”

This classic novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison should be banned from schools, according to a parent in the Fort Worth suburb of Birdville, because it includes a graphic description of rape. 7. "Out of Darkness," by Ashley Hope Pérez Carolrhoda Lab

This novel, about a lesbian romance set in 1954 between a Chinese American teen and a white classmate, is one of dozens of library books that have been flagged for removal in Keller. 45. "Weird Girl and What's His Name," by Meagan Brothers Three Rooms Press

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Corporations are unelected and so should not get involved in politics (“America was founded on the idea that we make our most important value judgments through our democratic process, where each citizen’s voice is weighted equally, rather than by a small group of elites in private. Debates about our social values belong in the civic sphere, not in the corner offices of corporate America.”) This book was thought-provoking in some parts, but disappointingly short-sighted and biased in others. You'd think the author would have stayed away from making basic, rightwing-youtube-channel-comment-level statements like: Woke was another way to say “conscious”: having awareness of our conditions and history in an America that lulls us with myths of a post-racial, colorblind, meritocratic society. Amid police killings in that “post-racial” society, these myths became untenable.