Citations:wokeism

woke ideology

• 2015 December 12, tweet by @brimuurr:

  Say no to Wokeism.

• 2018 July 7, Joel Kotkin, “Watch Out! Here Come the ‘Woke’ Tech Oligarchs”, in The Daily Beast‎^[1]:

  With his horrendous comments and awful actions, Trump has accelerated wokeism among the wealthy and their minions.

• 2019 July 30, Julian Vigo, “The Malaise Of Peak Wokeism Within Online Culture”, in Forbes:

  Ansari demonstrates how wokeism is both self-serving and self-perpetuating by simply acting as a vehicle for the privileged to “outwoke” each other while really doing nothing at all to change the reality which creates various forms of social inequality.

• 2019 October 29, Joe Duncan, “Oppressive Wokeism Needs to Stop”, in Medium‎^[2]:

  Wokeism is character-assassination-smear-tactics personified into a movement. Wokeism is social outrage for the sake of social outrage. Wokeism cares not for being a catalyst for actual change, its goal is metaphorical bloodshed and retribution, all in the name of claiming a slightly higher position on the social totem pole. Wokeism is the religification of social justice […]

• 2020 June 12, Jordan Bond, “Hamilton statue's removal raises debate over British colonialism artefacts”, in NZ Herald:

  New Zealand First leader Winston Peters sent out a searing press release, saying he was "disgusted" at the "wave of wokeism", and that people proposing to pull down the statues should "grow up".

• 2020 December 10, Ellie Bufkin, “How Toxic Leftism Killed The Vibrant Bon Appetit YouTube Channel”, in The Federalist:

  But in a flash, the “Friends” vibe was dead, and so was the Bon Appetit cooking channel. It was murdered in June 2020 by a furious spasm of wokism aimed at Bon Appetit and its publisher, Conde Nast. Both magazine and publisher were accused of insensitivity to employees of any color but peach.

• 2020 December 22, David Satter, “Soviet Politics, American Style”, in Wall Street Journal:

  Without the ideological challenge of the Soviet Union, we have become immersed in internal conflicts and have made an ideology out of them. It is true that Marxism is a more coherent system of thought than “wokeism.” But even an intellectual hodgepodge can engender totalitarian habits if it fulfills an emotional need and becomes a device of interpretation.

• 2020 December 26, Charles Gasparino, “NFL drops the ball as TV ratings take hit over ‘woke-ism’”, in New York Post:

  For my part, I have no problem with sports woke-ism. I never thought taking a knee was the most provocative social-justice statement. But I’m also a die-hard football fan who will sit through almost anything to watch Patrick Mahomes perform his magic.