Woke: A Guide to Social Justice

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A Katy parent asked to have this children's biography of the former first lady banned at every grade level because, the parent said, it unfairly depicts former President Donald Trump as a bully and because Obama's reflections on race gave the impression that "if you sound like a white girl you should be ashamed of yourself." 23. "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You," by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi Little Brown Books Dimitrof, Stefan (September 29, 2022). "Winston Peters tells Aussie TV about New Zealand's 'woke guilt industry' ". Te Ao Māori News . Retrieved January 7, 2023. Here's another passage that had me confused as to how he could just publish that in a book that claims to be an exposé of the American corporate class:

a b c d e f Hess, Amanda (April 19, 2016). "Earning the 'Woke' Badge". The New York Times Magazine. ISSN 0028-7822. Kanai, A.; Gill, R. (2020). "Woke? Affect, neoliberalism, marginalised identities and consumer culture". New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory & Politics. 102 (102): 10–27. doi: 10.3898/NewF:102.01.2020. ISSN 0950-2378. S2CID 234623282. The central thrust of the book is made up of at least four different lines of criticism (none of them new), which together form an incoherent mess: 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.Holliday, Nicole (November 16, 2016). "How 'Woke' Fell Asleep". OxfordWords. Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on December 27, 2016. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link)

If you want to get involved in the world of tech, why not apply for the Vodafone Graduate Programme? Applications are open for September 2022 and more information can be found here. Regular readers of Woke Watch Canada will know that Mr. M is an anonymous historian who is co-writing a book with me called The Great Illiberal Subversion: How Radical Activists Ru(i)n Western Democracies . Below are few of his book recommendations: a b Butterworth, Benjamin (January 21, 2021). "What does 'woke' actually mean, and why are some people so angry about it?". inews.co.uk.The War on the West by Douglas Murray. The first paragraph on the inside sleeve of Douglas Murray’s newest book says the following: This usage was popularized by soul singer Erykah Badu's 2008 song " Master Teacher", [9] [13] via the song's refrain, "I stay woke". [14] Merriam-Webster defines the expression stay woke in Badu's song as meaning, "self-aware, questioning the dominant paradigm and striving for something better"; and, although within the context of the song, it did not yet have a specific connection to justice issues, Merriam-Webster credits the phrase's use in the song with its later connection to these issues. [9] [17] The term “woke” wasn’t around in 1921, when Somerset Maugham wrote his short story Rain about the downfall of a professional rebuker – the Christian missionary, Mr Davidson, whose public fulminations against sin masked less-than-upstanding private impulses. But I think Maugham was animated by similar instincts as mine when I deploy “wokeness” against contemporaries who I find too full of their own rectitude.