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A writer with Slate has declared that the word ‘woke’ when used by a white person should be treated as a racial slur because it was “shoplifted” from the “black community”.
It’s the latest narrative in the debate over cancel culture.
It is no longer credible to declare that cancel culture doesn’t exist, and so the left has reverted to what it knows best, baseless accusations of racism and bigotry.
Along with a tacit threat, Slate hack Joel Anderson tweeted “If you’re not black and started using ‘woke’ pejoratively sometime post-2018 or so (or worse, don’t know anything about the earlier iteration of the term), I think it’s fair to consider it a racial slur.”
Anderson also posted a picture of white protesters taken in Charlottesville in 2017, with the comment “all these hit dogs.”
Anderson continued, “who am I to stop them from using a term they shoplifted from the black community? All I’m saying is, like with the other words, I get to decide my response.”
As noted by The Federalist, Anderson’s assertion was picked up on and re-tweeted by other leftist media figures at the Washington Post, NBC News, MSNBC News, ESPN and Vox.
It’s a tactic Anderson has tried before:
To these paranoid, segregational and isolationist people, absolutely everything anyone says that doesn’t jive with their delusional world view is ‘racist’, with a major part of that ‘racism’ involving appropriation of culture, words and terms and repurposing them for bigoted purposes.
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