I keep reading that 2022 was the year of peak woke.
If true, the surmise will spark either joy or sorrow, depending on predisposition. For the wordsmith, however, the intriguing question is not whether wokeism is on the decline; it’s how the word acquired its current social and political significance.
As it turns out, most sources get the origin wrong.
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