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I cannot take you seriously if you use the word "woke" unironically in 2021
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I cannot take you seriously if you use the word "woke" unironically in 2021

To the extent that anyone should care what James Carville thinks , maybe we should ask what he actually means when he starts ranting about "wokeness."

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Nov 09, 2021
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What is “wokeness?”

No, seriously, what does “wokeness” mean? It’s a term you see used constantly in the world of political media, but nobody seems particularly interested in actually defining it. For the most part, it seems to be a catch-all pejorative (if there are examples of people using the term “woke” or “wokeness” or some other variation of the te…

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