For many Republicans, the term 'woke' has become synonymous with all that is bad about liberal politics.
"It was after 2010 that 'woke' jumped the fence into mainstream parlance," Columbia University linguistics professor John McWhorter wrote in. In the wake of the killing of unarmed Black youths such as Trayvon Martin, Twitter users exhorted Americans to"stay woke," meaning vigilant, about racism and police brutality. By 2016, the term had been so widely adopted by young people that MTV.
"I think [woke is] an unusable word — although it is used all the time — because it doesn't actually mean anything," Tony Thorne, the author of"Dictionary of Contemporary Slang," Clark told Yahoo News that"woke" is used when conservatives want to avoid specifying exactly whom they're opposing. Liberals have also used vague language to condemn their opponents. For example, President Biden started referring to the Trump wing of the GOP asafter months of research by a liberal polling firm and political action committee determined that this was the term that most reduced the likelihood of voters supporting a Republican candidate. But the new phrase has no clear and universally accepted definition.
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