Stay Awake – The Wokeness Issue

EPISODE 117 | Stay Awake – The Wokeness Issue

In a classic example of the weird mirror world days we are currently moving through, a term used by Black people to mean one thing has been turned by opportunists into something totally different. 

So, let's look at the origin of the term "woke", how it's been used, African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), the Black Lives Matter movement, Defund the Police, and the appropriating of the word by those who see more personal profit in keeping us all divided.

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SECTIONS

1. 02:23 - Hi Diddle Dee Dee (An Actor's Life For Me) - Jive talk/hep talk/Harlemese/Ebonics/AAVE, "stay woke"
2. 10:53 - Someday My Prince Will Come - Black Lives Matter, Campaign Zero, M4BL
3. 15:44 - Little April Shower - Defund the Police, support drops drastically
4. 21:07 - Pink Elephants on Parade - All lives matter, white lives matter, blue lives matter, Russian trolls try to start a race war, #fakehashtags, athletes kneel in protest
5. 26:59 - I Wan’na Be Like You - "Woke" becomes a snarl term, cancel culture rises, Cultural Marxism, the mirror world ascendant
6. 33:55 - Heigh Ho - Musk's "woke mind virus" (WMV); DeSantis declares war with the PREA ("Don't Say Gay") and Stop WOKE, fights with the Mouse, babbles about Critical Race Theory
7. 41:00 - Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah - Woke Christianity, woke Capitalism, corporate sociopolitical activism (CSA); John Ringo, ConCarolinas and Go Woke, Go Broke; Boycotts against Nike, Gillette, United Airlines, Disney, Bud Light
8. 49:50 - Cruella De Vril - GAG targets Target, astroturfing, DeSantis goes after DEI programs
9. 53:30 - Second Star to the Right - How it all has come to this

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

• EPISODE 40 | When Nerds Attack - Gamergate, Elevatorgate & Sad Puppies
• EPISODE 41 | Critical Race Theory - Re-examining "Normal"
• EPISODE 61 | The Great Replacement - The White Wing Goes Mainstream
• EPISODE 100 | Conspirasphere Rising - A Talk w/Derek Arnold
• EPISODE 106 | Suffer the Children – Pizzagate, Wayfair & the Seeds of QAnon
• Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films
• A history of “wokeness” on Vox
• Wokeness: A Brief History of Wokeness, Woke Culture, and Staying Woke by University Press
• Cab Calloway’s “Hepster Dictionary,” a 1939 Glossary of the Lingo (the “Jive”) of the Harlem Renaissance
• Prof. Cab Calloway’s Swingformation Bureau on Cult Jones, Books for Visionaries
• Ebony + Phonics on PBS
• EBONICS: Its Origins and Significance on Our Time Press
• Oakland School District Recognizes Black English in the Los Angeles Times
• Lessons from the media’s coverage of the 1996 Ebonics controversy
• Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement video
• The Origin Of Woke: William Melvin Kelley Is The 'Woke' Godfather We Never Acknowledged
• Black Lives Matter website
• Campaign Zero website
• M4BL website
• Fake 'BLM Manifesto' Is Taken From Italian Fascism Document
• What Does Defund the Police Mean? at the Police Brutality Center
• What Do “Defund the Police” and “Police Abolition” Mean? And What Do They Not Mean? on Close Up Washington DC

• 7 myths about “defunding the police” debunked on the Brookings website

• Why saying "all lives matter" communicates to Black people that their lives don't on CBS News
• White Lives Matter on SPLC
• Blue Lives Matter on Participedia
• Virtual Hatred: How Russia Tried to Start a Race War in the United States - paper by William Aceves
• Me Too website
• Americans and ‘Cancel Culture’: Where Some See Calls for Accountability, Others See Censorship, Punishment at Pew Research Center
• Is Cancel Culture Effective? at University of Southern Florida
• What Is Cancel Culture and What Does It Mean in 2024? on Vice
• Cancel Culture: Myth or Reality? paper abstract
• Why we can’t stop fighting about cancel culture on Vox
• ‘Marxists are brainwashing us’: The conspiracy theory taking hold among some on the right in El Pais
• Cultural Marxism: An Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory? - briefing form Antisemitism Policy Trust
• How sport became a vehicle for far-right conspiracy theories
• Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein 
• When brands go woke, do they go broke? on The Chartered Institute of Marketing
• A First-Amendment Case for Freedom from the Woke Religion on New Discourses
• On National Beer Day 2024, the US is drinking more Modelo than Bud Light as NA brews rise
• This Gay Conservative Twitter Account Is the Latest Trying to Use Drag to Stir Outrage
• Is ‘Gays against Groomers’ the new Libs of TikTok? on the Daily Dot
• Astroturfing on The Midea Manipulation casebook
• Target’s Pride collection features ‘tuck-friendly’ swimsuits for adults, not kids on AP News
• The feud between Ron DeSantis and Disney, explained on Vox
• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill banning DEI initiatives in public colleges on NPR
• Gov. Ron DeSantis' war on 'woke' appears to be losing steam in Florida on NPR

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