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2023-10-31 04:44:32 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: F909190AA68B334A08A2CD939A726794ABCB580ED0D20BEAE5CD844346B55CC2
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To provide context for the term “woke” https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/woke_2#:~:text=woke-,adjective,that%20does%20not%20change%20anything. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/woke# https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/woke-meaning-origin#:~:text=What%20to%20Know,and%20identified%20as%20U.S.%20slang. It is not clear what Musk means by the “great awakening from woke”, though being “woke” is commonly believed to be a negative and used as an insult reflected on in right wing/far right opinion. https://amp.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2020/jan/21/how-the-word-woke-was-weaponised-by-the-right https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/woke-conservatives/story?id=93051138 https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2023/06/06/what-does-woke-even-mean-how-a-decades-old-racial-justice-term-became-co-opted-by-politics/amp/ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/opinion/woke-politically-correct.html
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