Wokeness |
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Created: 2021-09-041
a belief that any disparities between racial groups are evidence of structural racism; that the norms of free speech, individualism and universalism which pretend to be progressive are really camouflage for this discrimination; and that injustice will persist until systems of language and privilege are dismantled.
What?
Zach Goldberg, a self-proclaimed “wokeness studies scholar” at the Manhattan Institute, says "woke" means more than just left-wing radicalism. He says the essence of woke is “the belief that outcome disparities between groups – be they races, sexes, or ‘genders,’ etc. – are largely if not entirely the product of oppressive social forces and structures.”
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woke” in a positive light, and define the term as “to be informed, educated on and aware of social injustices.”
President Trump has been fixated in his second term on imposing ideological obedience on schools