Susan Neiman
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Susan Neiman is an American moral philosopher, cultural commentator, and essayist. She has written extensively on the juncture between Enlightenment moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics, both f
Susan Neiman
Woke
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Woke is an adjective derived from African-American English used since the 1930s or earlier to refer to awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination, often in the construction stay woke, recorded s
Susan Neiman
…After the book appeared, developments in Germany led Neiman to change some of her views. In Left Is Not Woke, Neiman examines the assumptions behind "woke" politics and argues that they are at odds with what the left has always stood for: "universalism over tribalism, a firm distinction between justice…
U.S. Congresswoman Marcia Fudge in 2018
Folk singer-songwriter Lead Belly used the phrase "stay woke" on a 1938 recording of his song "Scottsboro Boys".
"Master Teacher", a 2008 song by the American singer Erykah Badu (pictured in 2012), included the term "stay woke".
"#StayWoke" hashtag on a placard during a December 2015 protest in Minneapolis