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 ...
Hitting out at the “woke” warnings, Conservative MP Sir John Hayes said: “Dickens is full of, by definition, Victorian slurs, because it was reflecting the language of working people at the ...