I see the headline, which appears to thematically duplicated on a different headline and instance of the same basic thing. Questioning the rubes at CPAC. So. What is woke? Get no coherent response. The duplucatiin, I think, comes with an answer from the author of a book on woke, and I am guessing he may have given a response that is coherent, just not one that is … Er… Politically correct — mind you not that I have to agree, just… It has cohetence.

It is less of a gotcha than they think. I have a definition in mind mindful of how it came to be popularized by its well meaning not evil adherents before becoming a punchline. But I do not know that it came affixed. The word slippage is something lije, oh, neoconservative — a word that had historical context in meaning, retained some meaning even as time wiped out its historical context, then as it became a punching bag effectively became meaningless except for those who are mindful of using it in a proper term. A more immediate and more related word may be “critical theory” — most impactful of course “critical race tgeory”, which has a meaning and has prophets are a bit duplicitous in setting it out, but whose popular opponents basically drop the meaning utterly as they carry on.

So. Do the Jay Leno “man on the street poll” thing all you want. It adds up to something. Just not all that much.

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