If George Carlin was alive, he would include the word in his act.
It was also used back in the early days of the Christian Roman Empire. Because Christianity was chosen to replace the many, many religions in those areas. Officials of the church would make sure that the “new rules” were being followed by asking people they met if they were “woke to the Christ.”
Nothing is new.
2024 was peak woke.
Leftists always confuse words with what their meaning is in the real world.
It is not the “word” that is “controversial”.
It is the behavior that is despicable.
Words only become offensive when the Left loses control over defining their meaning. If the left says a word is now offensive, we should double down on the word’s use. That means we are winning.
It started with the tea party movement then was co-opted because of its effectiveness by the leftist groupthink mindguards.
Let’s get the historical record right. The way “woke” is used today is in response to the Great Awakening.
The Great Awakening is a pro-American, anti-globalist movement that kicked into gear in October 2017.
The anti-American globalists were buttressed by their minions who responded pathetically by trying to counter “awakening” with “woke.”
I think the point of the article is that the term had a very different slang or vernacular meaning in the early 20th century than it has come to have today.
#AwakeNotWoke
#TooAwakeToBeWoke
Somebody needs to clue in this clown that word meanings change very quickly in our digital age and that a given slang word comes to have the meaning that is given to it by the majority of users at any given time..