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Our stereotypes have at least a basis in truth.

A few decades back the bad Asian driver was a popular stereotype. And that came from the years before had a wave of Asian immigrants. Many of them came from countries where most people did not drive. So there were a lot of first and second generation Asian drivers out there and their ratio of accidents where higher than average because of that. Hence the stereotype being born.

Today we are on the third, fourth, and fifth generation of those immigrants who have now grown up around cars. Now that ratio of accidents are about the same across the board and, since there is no longer that grain of truth in that particular stereotype, it is dying out. In fact the only times I hear it anymore are from older people who grew up with it. Younger people dont subscribe to thatstereotype because it no longer makes any sense to them.

Now I am not saying that stereotypes are right and true. I am saying there is a grain of truth behind the stereotype that caused it to come about.

Eugenics works. If we can breed horses to be bigger, we can do the same with people. If we can breed dogs to be smarter, we can do that same to people. You can argue all you want about the moral and social ramifications, but the truth is that people are subject to all the same laws of heredity that animals are.

The rate of homicides involving a firearm decreased by half from 1992 to 2011

I save links to things I find interesting.Heres one about Rape convictions. Women are duped into thinking rapes are harder to solve than they are.

Theres a huge health risk with being mixed race, and thats getting organ transplants apparently.

Religion either is good for the mind/body, or people who are religious are from a healthier (mentally, physically, socially) demographic to begin with. The correlation and causation is hard to gauge, but here are some sources showing positive correlations with religion.

Ive already posted it, but Circumcision has huge negative effects on a person, and the benefits are controversial. Have some studies, the first one in particular, published last year, is one of the most massive.

The idea that men make much more money than women as an unfair advantage may not be as it seems.Since immigration and integration is becoming controversial in Europe.Heres some data on minorities in the UK, who are in fact a disproportionate source of crime.

Similar in Sweden, where immigrants commit a disproportionate amount of crime, mostly those of non-western background. The article is in Swedish but can be translated, but for the most serious crimes the instance among these certain groups is 300-400% higher.

Denmark has a similar problem, but its restrictions on refugees has potentially saved billions. In Denmark immigrants do not necessarily account for a disproportionate number of crimes, only certain immigrants particularly middle eastern. Chinese and Americans actually commit crimes lower than ethnic Danes.

The gender gap for wages is no longer an accurate reflection of systemic discrimination. It is now due primarily to personal choices women choosing to work part time receiving less pay overall, taking time off to raise children, choosing particular low paying industries, not choosing to pursue higher-level positions with certain characteristics, etc. From the report below: the raw wage gap continues to be used in misleading ways to advance public policy agendas without fully explaining the reasons behind the gap.Source:

Also, not talked about are the other effects of this division of labor. Because of the industry choices men and women make, men may get paid more but make up something like 92% of all workplace deaths, and a similar percentage of workplace suicides.Source:page 8.

In short lets stop talking about women being paid less than men. We won that one already.

Bureau of justice stats here:

Between 1980-2008 blacks accounted for 56.9% of all gun related murderswhile being 10-12% of the population. If you were to somehow remove guns from black people gun crime would drop by 50-60% overnight.

Im probably late to the game, but heres one. The USA actually has the highest life expectancy once you remove non-natural deaths such as accidents and murders.Also, I cant remember where I read this one but I remember it: the US also does not have a higher infant mortality rate, it is because not all countries calculate the statistic the same. In many other countries, babies born before a certain week are not counted in the infant mortality rate, while in the US, all of them are.

Young Male Muslims are more likely to be terrorists than elderly Swedish grandmothers.

Proof: I have been unable to find a single case of a Swedish grandmother hijacking a plan or committing a suicide bombing.

Nevertheless, they all have to take their shoes off in airports.

Im new to reddit, and I realize the sentiment on here runs VERY against this, but Ill jump in.

Marrying a promiscuous woman is a poor investment.Essentially, it boils down to Batemans Principle.Briefly, sperm(male sex) is cheap, eggs(female sex) are expensive. A female with an unrestricted sociosexuality (loosely- promiscuity) is incurring substantial risk due to the cost of the act, the differential investment applied, as well as an increase in disease exposure.

The rebuttal for this is the advancement of technology. We now have birth control, which takes away parental investment, the cost, as well as disease exposure. I agree.That covers the physical side of things. In the modern day, slut-shaming occurs due to the psychological side of things.

Kahn and London, 1991 and more recently Teachman, 2003 as well as others have demonstrated that women who have an unrestricted sociosexuality are more likely to be involved in marriages that divorce and extra-pair fertilizations (cheating). No similar robust correlation exists for men. Evolutionary psychologists have hypothesized that this may be due to a release of Oxytocin, which facilitates pair bonding with the previous men(decreasing the value of current commitment) due to the aforementioned differential parental investment.

Furthermore, Agostinelli, 1994 has linked an unrestricted sociosexuality with poor impulse control as well as risky decision making. Additionally, Ramrakha, 2013 has found a strong correlation between drug use in women who have an unrestricted sociosexuality, which has a substantially weaker effect for men.

This psychological and biological landscape paints a picture wherein having many sexual partners leads to poor impulse control and risky decision making for both genders, and in women, correlates with drug use, dissolved marriages and cheating to a much stronger degree.

When considering the divorce, alimony, child-custody, child-support and domestic abuse laws that govern most first world countries. This makes choosing a woman who has an unrestricted sociosexuality a poor investment for your future.

ummmm most black people in the us (70%) cant swim. Looked this up after I saw that story about about all those people in Louisiana who drowned trying to save that little girl and was very surprised.

If you have unprotected heterosexual sex with a HIV-infected woman (that is, insertive penile-vaginal intercourse), there is only a 1 in 2000 chance that the disease will be transmitted. Vice verse, it is still only a 1 in 1000 chance. For receptive anal intercourse, the risk jumps to 1 in 200.

I consider it controversial firstly because the transmission rate is surprisingly low generally, and extremely low (in comparison to general expectations) for heterosexual sex.Source.

Yes. The cause of the sudden windfall reduction of crime in NYC in the late 90s was not due to better policing or a better economy or anything like that, but because 15-30 years ago abortions had a windfall increase. This is also largely based on the finding that unwanted children are more likely to become criminals.

I did a report on how the perceived ideal body differed through American cultures. Long story short, black and Latino men prefer their chicks at least 2-3 dress sizes larger than Caucasian preferences.

Getting rid of all the obese people in the US could save over 21% of their healthcare budget.Source:

Edit : great my most upvoted comment is about eugenics (somewhat) sorry guys.

That children with parents who are MARRIED, are better off emotionally, financially, and health wise that any other type of parent relationships. That includes families in loving cohabitation for 50 years, homosexual marriages and multiple other family situations. I wrote a paper on in a couple years ago. But I was so surprised that maybe that piece of paper actually has an effect.

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"The goal of cancel culture is to make decent Americans live in fear of being fired, expelled, shamed, humiliated and driven from society as we know it," then-President Donald Trump said during a speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention. It was remarkably similar to a sentiment expressed by another Republican president about political correctness nearly 30 years earlier. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption

"The goal of cancel culture is to make decent Americans live in fear of being fired, expelled, shamed, humiliated and driven from society as we know it," then-President Donald Trump said during a speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention. It was remarkably similar to a sentiment expressed by another Republican president about political correctness nearly 30 years earlier.

When former President Donald Trump announced his lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google this month, he used a word that has become a familiar signal in modern politics.

"We're demanding an end to the shadow-banning, a stop to the silencing and a stop to the blacklisting, banishing and canceling that you know so well," Trump said in a speech.

That term, "canceling," has become central to the present-day debate over the consequences of speech and who gets to exact them. It has ascended from minor skirmishes on Twitter to the highest office in the country, and it actually mirrors a cultural conversation that started three decades ago.

"This is a power struggle of different groups or forces in society, I think, at its most basic," says Nicole Holliday, an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. "And this is the same case with political correctness that used to get boiled down to, well, 'Do you have a right to be offended if it means I don't have the right to say something?' "

The idea of being "politically correct," having the most morally upstanding opinion on complicated subjects and the least offensive language with which to articulate it, gained popularity in the 1990s before people on the outside weaponized it against the community it came from just like the idea of "canceling" someone today.

"I do think that 'cancel' in particular is something that was invented sort of by young people, and it actually just kind of means boycott, right? It means 'Do not support this thing,' " Holliday says.

Now, she says, "conservatives have picked it up not to just mean boycott, but rather to say: Our value system is under threat by these people who want to [de-]monetize or de-platform us because we have unpopular opinions."

But it's not just conservatives figures who think cancel culture has gone too far. The fear of being "canceled" has caused some everyday people to be more aware of and at times, concerned about what they say and post online.

So how did an effort to hold people accountable for their actions become politicized and get so out of control? To understand the uproar over cancel culture, it may help to examine the past.

Ruth Perry has seen the long arc of these kinds of debates. She's a professor emeritus of literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she worked for almost four decades and founded the women's studies department in 1984.

Back in her early career, Perry says, she ran with a crowd of idealists.

"We cared about the Earth, we cared about ecology, we cared about treating animals correctly," she says. "We cared about sexism, we cared about white supremacy all these things."

Perry says her peers would use the phrase "politically correct" to tease each other over whether their actions lined up with their ideals.

"Somebody would say, 'Would it be politically correct if we had a hamburger?' somebody who was a vegetarian would say that. Or somebody who was a feminist might say, 'It may not be politically correct, but I think he's really hot,' [about] some sexist movie star or something," says Perry.

"Politically correct" was a kind of in-joke among American leftists something you called a fellow leftist when you thought the person was being self-righteous. "The term was always used ironically," Perry says, "always calling attention to possible dogmatism."

Then, right-wing think tanks and conservatives started to use the term as a form of attack in both the media and academia.

"It felt like, 'Oh, my God, they're using this against us,' " Perry says. "And they're acting as if this term really was a kind of litmus test for political correctness, which it never had been."

A search of newspapers and magazines in the archive Nexis shows just how rapidly the term expanded beyond its original scene. In 1989, the phrase "politically correct" appeared fewer than 250 times in print. By 1994, the archive shows more than 10,000 hits. The idea was everywhere: from comedy shows like Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect to cartoons like Beavis and Butt-Head and even current events shows like Firing Line on PBS.

This national obsession didn't just bubble up organically.

"It is an industry," John Wilson, author of the 1995 book The Myth of Political Correctness, says. "There are all these right-wing foundations and books that were published that made a lot of money promoting this idea."

He adds that the word "myth" in the title of his book is important to understanding how it became a phenomenon.

"A myth is not a falsehood: It doesn't mean it's a lie. It doesn't mean everything is fabricated," he says. "It means that it's a story. And so what happened in the '90s is, people, with political correctness, they took certain sometimes true anecdotes and they created a web, a story out of them, a myth that there was this vast repression of conservative voices on college campuses."

Wilson says there were grains of truth to the conservative argument isolated examples of conflicts and protests, often on college campuses, and real cases of people getting punished or fired but that those isolated cases got magnified into a sweeping national narrative that the right used to claim conservatives were being silenced. And by claiming victimization, Wilson says, conservatives were able to use the term "political correctness" as a bludgeon to hammer the left, a lot like the way the phrase "cancel culture" is used today.

Then, like now, local debates that might have stayed largely unknown beyond college newspapers suddenly became national news.

For example, in 1988, NPR and several other news organizations reported on a fight over Stanford University's freshman requirements. The name of the course at the center of the controversy was "Western Culture," which the students wanted replaced with a more multicultural class, Wilson says. People like Education Secretary William Bennett a Republican took the student protests as a broader attack.

"Right from the beginning, this was an assault on Western culture and Western civilization," he said in a 1988 PBS interview.

By 1991, this panic had reached all the way to the president of the United States.

President George H.W. Bush waves to a crowd of over 60,000 at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich., on May 4, 1991, as he arrives to deliver the University of Michigan's commencement speech. Greg Gibson/Associated Press hide caption

President George H.W. Bush waves to a crowd of over 60,000 at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich., on May 4, 1991, as he arrives to deliver the University of Michigan's commencement speech.

"We find free speech under assault throughout the United States, including on some college campuses," said then-President George H.W. Bush in his commencement address at the University of Michigan in 1991. "The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land."

Bush went on: "The disputants treat sheer force getting their foes punished or expelled, for instance as a substitute for the power of ideas."

Another Republican president, Donald Trump, who denounced political correctness during his 2016 presidential campaign, made the same argument against cancel culture almost 30 years later at the 2020 Republican National Convention.

"The goal of cancel culture is to make decent Americans live in fear of being fired, expelled, shamed, humiliated and driven from society as we know it," Trump said during a speech.

Discussion about public cancellations increased in the years leading up to the 2020 election, and that points to something else that these two battles in the culture wars share.

"There tend to be these flare-ups or panics about political correctness in moments of institutional transformation or instability," historian Moira Weigel says, "and I think it tends to be a way that certain groups claim authority in a changing public sphere."

In those political correctness wars of the '90s, college campuses were becoming more diverse, and Weigel says something similar is taking place right now.

"It usually happens in response to movements for racial and gender and sexuality justice, and I think it's no accident that it's with the rise of BLM [Black Lives Matter] that you see it come back again as a big media theme," she says.

Before the entire country started to weigh in on a single person's actions, "canceling" started out on a much smaller scale.

Meredith Clark, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, says "cancel culture" builds on a process of accountability that has unfolded in Black communities for years. But, she takes issue with the description of "canceling" as a part of our broader culture.

"Canceling is what comes out of Black discourse it's what comes out of Black queer discourse but the assignment of 'culture' to that makes it a label that's big enough to be slapped on anyone and anything," she says. "And that is where the weaponization of what is otherwise accountability really takes off."

If this had remained something that just stuck within Black communities, within Latinx communities, then this wouldn't really be a story.

Meredith Clark

Clark thinks one reason that cancel culture has become such a hot national topic is people in powerful positions are unaccustomed to having to answer to marginalized people who, through social media, have greater access to them than ever.

"That's what it's all about," Clark says. "If this had remained something that just stuck within Black communities, within Latinx communities, then this wouldn't really be a story."

"But because it has crossed over," she continues, "now this becomes newsworthy, and it becomes something that is positioned as something that every everyday person should fear."

Undoubtedly, the biggest difference between discussions of political correctness in the '90s and cancel culture today is the way social media creates access to both public and private individuals and puts their dialogue on equal footing.

Jon Ronson has been studying that transition for a decade and wrote about the way private individuals have been disproportionately punished for minor transgressions on social media in his 2015 book So You've Been Publicly Shamed. He thinks the issue with cancel culture is not so much one of right versus left, but with the idea that private individuals should be judged in the same way as public figures.

"The term 'cancel culture' has become this ridiculously catchall term where a private individual who did nothing much wrong, whose life was very heavily impacted by an overzealous social media shaming, is suddenly put into the same basket as a provocateur newspaper columnist," Ronson says.

Clark's studies illuminate a similar problem. She says that when you look at the small percentage of the U.S. population that is on Twitter 42% of adults between 18 and 29 and only 27% of adults between 30 and 49, as of February 2021 you understand how out of proportion the narrative of cancel culture is.

"Given the tiny, tiny portion of the American population in particular that uses Twitter, we're not really talking about a lot of people who are clamoring to cancel others," she says. "It sounds loud because it gets amplified. The Twitter commentary gets amplified by mainstream media; it gets picked up in discussions [with people] that otherwise would not have been privy to what was happening online."

Ronson thinks one way to alleviate the debate over cancel culture is to better understand how powerful social media and our actions on it can be.

"This is a very new weapon that we have. On Twitter, we're like children crawling towards guns," he says. As with any weapon, the best advice for navigating social media may be to proceed with caution and think before you shoot.

"I just think it's up to every individual on social media to be curious and patient. ... It's absurd to think that you know everything about somebody just because of one poorly worded tweet, and we are judging people that way," Ronson says.

Ronson says he remembers growing up in a culture of racism, misogyny and homophobia in the United Kingdom in the 1970s and '80s and how the idea of political correctness was used to address those issues. In the cases of both political correctness and cancel culture, he thinks some degree of correction is necessary, but what we're witnessing may be overshooting the mark.

"We're living in this very binary world," he says, "and in this world, people on the right are saying, 'You know, we are being silenced by a woke mob,' and people on the left are saying, 'It's not happening we're just holding people accountable.' "

The truth, Ronson says, "is somewhere in the middle."

Mia Venkat, Noah Caldwell and Patrick Jarenwattananon produced and edited this story for broadcast. Alejandra Marquez Janse adapted it for the web.

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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham called for new gun control laws and greater accountability for firearm manufacturers while denouncing recent drive-by shootings of the homes of Democratic lawmakers in Albuquerque in her State of the State address Tuesday at the start of the annual legislative session.

New Mexico's Democratic-led Legislature is preparing to tap a multibillion-dollar budget surplus as it takes on daunting challenges of crime, lagging student achievement in schools and below-average workforce participation during its 60-day legislative session.

The governor and leading Democratic legislators want to expand preschool access, lengthen annual instructional time at public schools, increase public salaries and provide at least $1 billion in tax relief and rebates.

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But concerns about politically motivated violence loomed over the proceedings after police on Monday arrested a failed Republican candidate in connection with a series of shootings targeting the homes of Democratic lawmakers in Albuquerque.

Addressing a joint session of the state House and Senate, Lujan Grisham condemned what she called "despicable acts of political violence" and a "sickening scourge of gun violence that has infected our nation." She announced proposals to ban assault-style weapons, allow victims of gun violence to bring civil lawsuits against gun manufacturers, and crack down on black-market sales that funnel guns to ineligible buyers.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham delivers an address on the opening day of the annual legislative session in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Jan. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

"We all know that we cannot keep our people safe, we cannot keep our police officers and their families safe, if weapons of war continue to flood our neighborhoods," Lujan Grisham said.

"If we are bold and clear in our knowledge that now is the time to do the right thing, we can save lives and protect futures," Lujan Grisham said. "I'm not going to let up and I know that there will be other ideas and other strategies, and I know that we're going to work together."

Republicans in the legislative minority also condemned the attack on politicians in Albuquerque and said that gun control measures won't make people safer.

"I got concerned, I made sure that my own firearms were really close at hand," said state Sen. Craig Brandt of Rio Rancho. "Putting in more gun-control laws doesn't allow us to protect ourselves."

Republican state legislators hope to reinstate immunity from prosecution for policing agencies and tighten requirements for pretrial release of people charged of crimes.

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Democratic Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth of Santa Fe says he'll sponsor a bill that bans firearms at all polling locations in response to the fears and frustrations of election workers.

Lujan Grisham staked her reelection heavily on her support for preserving widespread access to abortion as a foundation of womens rights and democracy following the U.S. Supreme Courts decision last year that overturned Roe v. Wade and left legalization up to the states.

Leading Democratic legislators hope to send her a bill that would prohibit restrictions on abortion by local governments and shield patients and abortion doctors from harassment by out-of-state interests.

New Mexico also is grappling with the aftermath of catastrophic 2022 wildfires linked to climate change and drought.

State legislators want to make the state more resilient to climate-related disasters by speeding up the delivery of federal disaster aid and allowing small water districts to band together as they rebuild from wildfires.

Lujan Grisham hopes to fund the first New Mexico-based corps of elite smokejumper firefighters to ensure a rapid response to future fires. On Tuesday, she proposed the creation of a $75 million trust fund to address root causes of water scarcity and climate change.

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State government income is forecast to reach new heights $12 billion in revenue during the fiscal year that runs from July 2023 though June 2024. Thats about $3.6 billion in excess of current annual spending commitments.

Lujan Grisham urged legislators to tap that windfall to back her "cradle-to-career" strategy of expanding free public education, with new investments this year in daycare, preschool and tuition-free college as enrollments swell at public universities.

"Our commitment to making education accessible and affordable is lifting families out of poverty," Lujan Grisham said.

Legislators in the Republican minority say more public spending hasn't translated into greater student achievement on Lujan Grisham's watch. They want greater competition among K-12 schools, wider options for students with public funding of private and parochial schools.

"I think more choice for families ... to have that power back in the hands of parents, to chose where their children will get the best quality education, is where we have to go," Brandt said.

The governor and leading legislators are proposing a pay raise for state workers and public school educators of at least 4%. Taxpayers would pay for educators' individual health care premiums under a proposal from the governor.

Lawmakers also hope to sock away billions of dollars into specialized trust funds, and use future investment earnings to underwrite programs ranging from smoking cessation to highway construction.

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Provided by The Mary Sue WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 14: Protestors march down Willis Street during a protest in support of the Black Lives Matter movement on June 14, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand. The event in Wellington was organised in solidarity with protests in the United States following the killing of an unarmed black man George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Every quarter, researchers at the Oxford English Dictionary survey the landscape and add new words to what is considered the standard dictionary by which we should abide. One of the words added in recent years is woke, which youre no doubt familiar with, but lets talk about what it really means and where it came from.

The latest OED update occurred in September of 2022, when terms like side hustlen.U.S.colloquial(originally in African-American usage) a part-time job or occupation undertaken in addition to ones main job in order to earn extra income)were added, and updates to words like influencern. A well-known or prominent person who uses the internet or social media to promote or generate interest in products, often for paymentwere implemented.

While there are many conflicting ideas as to whether or not slang belongs in the official dictionary, there is a clear process for how these words are added. The vigorous vetting process can see hundreds to thousands of words considered every quarter, and the underlying criteria are usage and consensusbut we have to remain cognizant of usage by whom.

Side hustle, for example, is a term thats been used in the Black community for decades, but was only added to the dictionary this year. Is that an inherent problem on its own? No, but it must be noted that when other communities besides Black people started using the term, only then was it deemed valid enough. This comes on the heels of people misappropriating African American Vernacular English (AAVE), as internet slang on TikTok to the point where Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be tackling an Official AAVE Dictionary With Oxford Dictionary.

Interesting, but were here to talk about woke.

woke, adjective: Originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice; frequently instay woke.

Though created nearly 100 hundred years ago by Black Americans to warn each other about racist violence, the word is now mainly used derisively by conservative voices who oppose the emancipation of marginalized groups.

Woke was one of the words added to the OED in 2017, and you would think that being alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice would be a good thing, but conservatives and Republicans have not had a good nights rest since. I would, in turn, make the argument that the word itself has undergone such an intense shift since 2017 that its due to for an update.

Prior to 2014, if you asked a person outside of the Black community what that word meant, theyd have no clue. Woke, as a political concept, came into mainstream consciousness in 2014, largely connected to Ferguson and the killing of Mike Brown. In that instance, stay woke become linked to the Black Lives Matter Movement and police brutality, but in actuality, the word has been used to refer to some level of Black consciousness since the 20th century.

The earliest documented contemporary reference comes from Jamaican political activist and philosopher Marcus Garvey, in 1923, through a collection of ideas in which he urged the black diaspora to Wake Up! and have a degree of social and political awareness Garvey. The word then popped back up in a 1938 song called Scottsboro Boys by Blues musician Lead Belly. It described how a group of nine Black teenagers where accused of raping two white women in 1931. In the song, Belly directly uses stay woke as an call for Black Americans to be aware of white supremacists amongst them.

The term emerged once again in a 1962 piece published by The New York Times, written by William Melvin Kelly, entitled If Youre Woke You Dig It; No mickey mouse can be expected to follow todays Negro idiom without a hip assist. If Youre Woke You Dig It. The piece does not not give a definition of woke but rather examines the role language plays in the discourse.

The piece speaks to the ever shifting nature of Black vernacular, and being woke must include gatekeeping Black English from white audiences that would choose to exploit itand so said so done. An AAVE dictionary might sound like a good idea in theory, but with the amount of people that often misuse and appropriate it on social media, they might have to put a bit more thought into that one, because not everything should be accessible to the masses.

In one of his seminars, Kelly said, I would say there were two languages that were created by African Americans. One that is being created so that African people could communicate with European people and another language for African people to communicate with other African people. I imagine that at that point, English was the common language that we were using. So, OK, we would use English words, but we use them in an African way. That process takes a long time Its a question that African Americans will have to answer. Do we let it die out and learn standard English, or do we keep them both and develop a language and literature in both?

Though the loose idea can be traced back to Garvey, its contemporary usage stems from Kelly, which is why in 2014 the OED credited him with the coining of the term as its used today. According to Kelly, Black Americans have always had to engage with coded language since slavery to protect themselves and to communicate with one another. If your master did not know what you were talking about, he could not punish you, and you could maintain your ignorance and innocence.

With the advent of social media and speed at which information travels, it seems like this mindset is on its way to being obsolete.

The the most literal form of the wordslang for trying not to sleepspread through Black jazz music in the 60s, but its political meaning was once again brought to the forefront by Erykha Badus rendition of Master Teacher, originally sung by Georgia Anne Muldrow.

Even if yo baby aint got no money

To support ya baby, you

(I stay woke)

Even when the preacher tell you some lies

And cheatin on ya mama, you stay woke

(I stay woke)

Even though you go through struggle and strife

To keep a healthy life, I stay woke

(I stay woke)

Everybody knows a black or white, theres

Creatures in every shape and size

(I stay woke)

Thus began its use on social media, as #staywoke in conjunction with #blacklivesmatter.

The term blew into the mainstream mainstream with Jordan Peeles Get Out, the opening of which features the hit Redbone by Childish Gambino. On the surface, the song references a cheating partner, but when played in the context of a film like Get Out, where the main character has to literally stay awake in order to mitigate white violence, the track harkens back to the political side of the coin.

As with many things, when something starts to gain popularity, its detractors will be waiting in the wings. Once presented to a white audience, it wasnt long before critics began to take shots at woke culture and misrepresenting a term that originated from the protection of Black people into cancel culture. Some people viewed the term as performative, nothing but a Twitter hashtag that had no real bearing on the outsidean uninformed opinion, but one that spread like wildfire, as they often do.

Before long, cries about the woke mob (a leftist entity designed to tear down the lives of conservativessarcasm, if you didnt catch it) began to overshadow the original meaning. Suddenly, people everywhere were petrified of being canceled by said mob, which leads me to a tangent.

Cancel, another Black term that was co-opted, bastardized, and turned into a culture, is wokes fraternal twin. Cancel Culture generally refers to the ending of ones career through people getting angry on Twitter. (Theres that sarcasm again.) This usually happens when some aspect of said persons personality is brought to light, e.g. racism, homophobia, or transphobia. Im pretty sure youve already heard it, but if not, heres for the people in the back: Cancel Culture doesnt exist.

Someone getting rightfully called out for bigoted comments isnt canceling them; its holding them accountable and, in most cases, it doesnt mean anything. J.K. Rowling comes out every two business days to remind us of how transphobic she is, and shes still a billionaire and able to publish books just fine, and Netflix told us how they feel about Dave Chapelles transphobia, as well. If anything, its the marginalized communities that speak up who end up loosing things.

And when it comes to powerful people that have been actually canceled with the help of social media, its only some sexual predators, i.e. Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby. Why would you want either of those people back?

The battle over the word woke is about more than language or a simple misunderstanding. Its a right-wing dog whistle to stifle discussion about institutional injustice. At the end of the day, all of this leads back to racism and anti-blackness. It was once called PC Culture, but in the contemporary discourse, wokeness has become inextricable from blackness. Therefore, when conservative pundits are fear-mongering over cancel culture and the woke mob, the dog whistles can be heard from a mile away. Today, woke is already seen as cringe by non-Black progressives, while its still being used in some Black communities in the hopes of restoring its original meaningwhile, as Kelly said, theres already something new to replace it.

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Twitter locked the account of a right-leaning parody site, The Babylon Bee, after it awarded Rachel Levine, the transgender Biden administration official, the title of man of the year.

The Babylon Bee story was a reaction to USA Todays naming of Levine, who is US assistant secretary for health for the US Department of Health and Human Services, as one of its women of the year last week.

Twitter says it will restore the account, which has more than 1.3 million followers, if the Bee deletes the tweet, but CEO Seth Dillon says he has no intention of doing so.

Were not deleting anything, Dillon tweeted from his personal account. Truth is not hate speech. If the cost of telling the truth is the loss of our Twitter account, then so be it.

The banned article notes that Levine serves proudly as the first man in that position to dress like a western cultural stereotype of a woman. He is also an admiral in theUS Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. What a boss!

He often wears a dress, which some people think is weird but he doesnt care one bit, the article continues. Come on! Men in India wear dress-type garments, dont they?

Dillon tweeted news of the suspension from his own account, attaching a screenshot of the notice from Twitter.

Twitter cited its policy on hateful conduct, which states: You may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.

The account you referenced as been temporarily blocked for violating ourhateful conduct policy, a Twitter spokesperson said.

The account owner is required to delete theviolative Tweetbefore regaining access to their account.

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'Yellowstone' Season 5, Episode 6 Recap: Jamie and Sarah Join Forces, Plan to Oust John as Governor  Entertainment Tonight

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