August 14, 2024

Stay Awake: The Wokeness Issue

55 minutes

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

02:23 - Hi Diddle Dee Dee (An Actor's Life For Me) - Jive talk/hep talk/Harlemese/Ebonics/AAVE, "stay woke"

10:53 - Someday My Prince Will Come - Black Lives Matter, Campaign Zero, M4BL

15:44 - Little April Shower - Defund the Police, support drops drastically

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

26:59 - I Wan’na Be Like You - "Woke" becomes a snarl term, cancel culture rises, Cultural Marxism, the mirror world ascendant

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

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

49:50 - Cruella De Vril - GAG targets Target, astroturfing, DeSantis goes after DEI programs

53:30 - Second Star to the Right - How it all has come to this

Music by Fanette Ronjat

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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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