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The Word That Ate the Argument
I. Opening: The Word That Explains Too Much
There are words that clarify reality, and there are words that absorb it.
“Woke” has become the second kind.
It is no longer a stable term. It does not point to one doctrine, one movement, one policy, one moral failure, or one political tribe. It has become a compression chamber for half the conflicts of contemporary American life. When someone says “woke,” they may mean racial justice, campus censorship, DEI bureaucracy, trans politics, corporate virtue-signaling, anti-meritocratic hiring, historical guilt, elite hypocrisy, language policing, moral…
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