miles-hercules told CNN conservatives using “woke” however they want, despite its historical meaning, is an example of “semantic pejoration”: when a word gains a negative meaning over time.
There has always been a segment of the political class that has maintained power by keeping people frightened and angry enough to vote accordingly when they are promised protection. The United States ...
A word that once symbolised awareness of social and racial injustice has been painfully commercialised and eventually weaponised, whitewashing its original meaning. Woke has been hijacked and ...