the wake up term It comes from African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and means vigilance against racial prejudice and discrimination. The phrase “stay awake” has been around in AAVE since the 1930s, and in some contexts, it has referred to increased awareness of social and political issues affecting African Americans.
Today we hear it everywhere. It is a term. Which ignites violent confrontations and tensions.
From the expression of movement
In the West, it has come to the forefront. In the 2010s It gradually came to include a broader awareness of social inequality such as Racial injustice, gender discrimination, and denial of rights to the LGBTQ+ community.
Woke has also been used to describe some of the ideas of liberal Americans (and not only) regarding it. Identity politics and social justice.
During the 2014 Ferguson protests, the phrase was popularized by Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists who were trying to raise awareness about police shootings of African Americans.
After the term was used on black Twitter, “wake” became increasingly used by white people, who used it to express their support for the BLM movement.
This term has become popular among millennials and members of Generation Z. As its use spreads globally, the term has awakened It was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2017.
In offensive description
But from 2020 onwards, as part of the woke culture moved to the other extreme of public shaming and rejection on social media and the “cancellation” of those who express a different opinion, a war broke out.
the Woke up now tends to be used as a derogatory and offensive term. To describe an obsession with entitlement and political correctness rather than defending the rights of minorities. Now many representatives of organizations that fight against all forms of discrimination, consider this description insulting.
Terms like Washing the awakening and the awakening of capitalism which criticizes those who exploit the political/social claims of minorities for financial or political gain.
Political analysts trying to explain the results of the recent European elections, the far-right shift in France, or the dynamics of Donald Trump in the United States point out that The major parties’ obsession with the woke agenda, The above proposed problems of society, which concern everyone (including minorities), It cost them dearly.
Elon Musk’s Startup
The richest man on the planet has repeatedly railed against woke culture. He often posts memes and playful comments on X, targeting Netflix among others, as he considers the content, casting and messaging of his series to be an extreme expression of “wokeness.”
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 18, 2024
“The awakening virus killed my son”
In a recent interview with The Daily Wire and Jordan Peterson, referring to his estrangement from his transgender child, who was born a boy named Xavier and is now a woman named Vivian, he said, “The awakening virus killed my son.”
a Elon Musk He claimed that during the coronavirus pandemic, he was tricked into signing consent to change the sex of his child, making him believe he would otherwise kill himself.
“I was tricked into doing this. I was told he was going to kill himself. They didn’t explain to me that puberty blockers are actually just sterilization drugs,” Elon Musk said. “There’s a reason they call it dead. My son died from the virus of woke culture.”
He then vowed to “destroy the virus of woke culture and some progress is being made.”
Shots fired at Secret Service
After the assassination attempt on Trump, Glenn Grothman, a congressman and chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, fired the Secret Service not only for security lapses at the Pennsylvania campaign speech, but also for its organization and staffing.
Among other things, he commented on this: He is “awake unnecessarily”, “He spends a lot of time recruiting as many women as possible, for example, into the Secret Service, rather than making sure the employees do a good job.”
These accusations were repeated by a number of Republican members of Congress. During the testimony of the head of the Secret Service (who eventually resigned) to Congress. And, they alleged, the service sacrificed meritocracy in selecting agents on the altar of diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.
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