The surprising history of a term increasingly thrown around in UK political debate.
"The person who many people consider coined it was [the novelist] William Melvin Kelley," says Elijah Watson, news and culture editor of American music website Okayplayer and author of a series of articles called The Origin of Woke."This piece really foreshadowed woke's more genuine and sincere and black-centric origins, and how it would inevitably become appropriated by the masses.
"Among the young, over half of them think it's a compliment, but only 13% of the oldest group think it's a compliment.""It's been much more linked in the media to debates around cancel culture," says Prof Duffy. The Spectator magazine's deputy political editor Katy Balls says some Conservative MPs and ministers are using the word in a pejorative way in the hope of connecting with new Tory voters in the north of England.
"[They're] very uncomfortable with this idea of having a culture war. They don't really want to have a war on woke," says Balls.
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