# Wokeness **See Also:** [[Politics]] - The term "woke" has been appropriated and weaponized by so many different groups that it's virtually lost all meaning. - It originated as a term used to define a state of awareness in people of racial prejudice and discrimination. - It expanded over time to denote awareness of all kinds of prejudice and discrimination. - Then, because it was popular, it began to be associated with the *perception* of prejudice and discrimination, and to be leveraged by advertisers and corporate entities trying to appeal to various age groups. - Since the term could now be used *without evidence*, conservatives started using the term to denote what they see as wrong in society. - And so, being woke is now *both* a good thing and a bad thing, which makes it a useless concept. - See [[Sac21]] for more details. %% Notes to absorb ```dataview list from [[]] and !"Templates" and !outgoing([[]]) sort file.name asc ``` %%