wokeist
wokeist – sostantivo
wokery – sostantivo
wokism – sostantivo
the wokerati – sostantivo
We object to the sanctimonious, totalitarian way in which the Wokeists like to frame discussion of their views.
We are witnessing the rise of a new secular religion and it is called wokism.
You won’t create a ‘richer and more informed relationship’ [with history] by obliterating it whilst kowtowing to Wokery, you’ll create resentment and anger.
The ‘wokerati’ have schooled me on taking personal offense.
Le parole possono diventare armi molto in fretta ed essere rivolte contro coloro che per primi avevano iniziato a usarle. Un esempio recente è woke, di cui abbiamo parlato in un vecchio post: in origine descriveva l’essere consapevole delle ingiustizie sociali e il lottare contro esse, in particolare il razzismo, ma nel giro di poco tempo è stato utilizzato ironicamente per mettere in ridicolo proprio tale atteggiamento. Dal ridicolo all’ostilità aperta il passo è breve, e ciò risulta evidente dal numero di parole derivate da woke che trasudano avversione e disprezzo. Chi è woke viene chiamato wokeist e l’atteggiamento wokeness diventa wokery. Nel loro insieme, i wokeists sono definiti wokerati, con il suffisso -ati che è usato talvolta per indicare scherno, come nei termini digerati e glitterati. Che tutto questo sia avvenuto nello spazio di pochi anni dimostra la rapidità con cui il linguaggio può diventare ‘tossico’ e trasformarsi in arma nello scontro tra le culture.
Origini del termine
I termini di cui abbiamo parlato sono nati negli ultimi due anni e il loro uso è stato amplificato dai social, in particolare da Twitter.
Traduzione di Loredana Riu
wokeist – noun
wokery – noun
wokism – noun
the wokerati – noun
We object to the sanctimonious, totalitarian way in which the Wokeists like to frame discussion of their views.
We are witnessing the rise of a new secular religion and it is called wokism.
You won’t create a ‘richer and more informed relationship’ [with history] by obliterating it whilst kowtowing to Wokery, you’ll create resentment and anger.
The ‘wokerati’ have schooled me on taking personal offense.
Words can quickly become weapons to be used against the very people who started using them in the first place. A recent example of the process is woke, which we looked at last year. Originally used to describe an attitude of alertness to and action against social injustice, especially racism, it quickly started to be used ironically to mock that attitude. From there to outright hostility was a short step, a hostility that is reflected in a number of derivative terms coined from woke that exude dislike and contempt for wokeness on the part of their users. So people who claim to be woke or embrace wokeness are referred to as wokeists and their attitudes as wokery. Such people collectively can be referred to as the wokerati, the suffix -ati sometimes being a way of indicating disdain, as in digerati and glitterati. That this has happened in the space of a few years shows how quickly language can become toxic and be used as a weapon in the culture wars.
Origin
All the coinages above have been created in the past couple of years and their use amplified by social media, especially Twitter.
