Woke is now a dog whistle for Black. What's next?

[douglas9]

There’s “urban” of course. And urban’s cousin “inner-city.”

And then there’s “at-risk,” “underserved” and “fatherless” if talking about our children. “Marginalized,” “low-income” and “welfare-dependent” if talking about the parents of those children.

We live in “Democratic strongholds” like “Chicago,” but we’re also “socialists” and “low-information voters” taught “critical race theory” by “Marxists” so we can be “anti-American.” Our neighborhoods are “sketchy” and “depressed” “ghettos” filled with “thugs” and “transient” “Section 8” “renters” employable only through “affirmative action” “diversity” “quotas.” If we choose to play a sport, we are “naturally gifted,” “ungrateful,” “intimidating” and somehow both “aggressive” and “lazy.”

In the decades since I first became aware of the coded language used to indicate Black people, I’ve lost count of how many different euphemisms I’ve read and heard to describe, well, me. I even considered creating a drinking game where I’d take a shot each time I’d heard a racist dog whistle during a politician’s speech, but I probably would’ve died.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/09/26/damon-young-woke-is-now-dog-whistle-black-whats-next/

[brer cat]

1. The one that bothered me the most was "the element."

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. I've always seen it as a dog whistle for "librul socialist lowlife".

[Heather MC]

3. They've been desperately trying to replace the N-word moniker with something...

Just as derogatory for quite some time.
They had landed on the word "thug"... I guess that just didn't carry the racist appeal they were hoping it would.
An "urban" doesn't work because if any of them ever left the country and came to a city. They would discover an urban area is filled with literally everybody from all walks of life.

So now they're testing out "woke". What they don't understand, is that in the black community the word "Woke" Was beginning to become a joke, before they picked it up.

And so they can have it. Because we had already thrown it in the garbage where they found it.

Isn't it funny that these people aren't even intelligent enough to make up their own words to call us. they have to steal our words and try to denigrate us with that. I wonder if that's where they 1st heard the "n-word"