or earlier to refer to awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination, often in the construction "stay woke", recorded since at least 1924.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke

Here's the doctor who's going to educate 1's of West Virginian youth in countering it:

https://www.duq.edu/faculty-and-staff/patrick-lee-miller.php

the site liked to have a hand-wringing meltdown.

...perhaps it was during one of my several dormant periods. I'm glad the hissy fit has abated.

https://russblib.blogspot.com

it took on a fever pitch and was eventually lumped into the "defund the police" fervor as a term to reject. Because. GOP. Not. Likey.

OPs attempted to define the term but it was a rough for awhile.

The funny part is how clever and transparent/invisible/deep undercover they think they are.

They think no one notices.

Texas A&M University adopted a rule last November banning the teaching of “race and gender ideology,” which includes Plato’s 2,400-year-old “Symposium.” Professor Martin Peterson explains how he thinks the move will hurt his philosophy students.

s/he knows their name is going to show up in one or more lists, and who knows what that list will be used for... and by whom? And the first thought in this administration will always go to the worst-case scenario first.

We have lost our rights and liberties, for the most part...handed them over to trump lock, stock and barrel. Our "freedom" is an illusion, and then only if you're MAGA. The rest of us pretty much know the score, especially if POC, female, or non gender normative.

The single student signed up for the anti-woke made up right-wing major.

My KB is giving out on me... as soon as I can find a decent one around here and get it hooked up, I'll got back into the full story and read it... not just what was posted here. It *sounded* to me from that little bit... that a new elective going back to covering the history, etc., of DEI was being offered and only one student signed up for it. I didn't get a right/left angle to it at all. But, like I said, I only read the snippet. I'll dig a big deeper. Because I'd love to see some of these universities fight back for academic freedom.

Sadly, the Homeland of fentanyl and black lungs.

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. .no credit. That's strange....

.... They pay you to take the courses!

They just, not two years ago, fired 174 professors and staff. I have friends and colleagues whose careers were destroyed by WVU.
I left that hellhole before the purge, because my research abilities were being curtailed due to lack of funding.
This is outrageous. But that whole state is a pit of grift and corruption.

that it's full of West Virginians

...that university students would line up to get into this program? Sheesh. They're gonna need a class that fulfills half a dozen lower division gen ed core requirements simultaneously before they that major gets any traction. Maybe they can convince the local college republican chapter's members to add it as a cheap and easy minor.

"That's right, sir, I majored in accounting with a minor in right wing anti-wokism. I am the culture warrior your company needs!" No offense intended to accountants, of course.

"Dr. Miller and the Washington Center (are going to) help return higher education to its true purpose."

WHICH IS BEING FUCKING WOKE. Okay? Take out all the stuff right-wingers hate about being woke and questioning things and you're left with a trade school. Didn't any of these assholes ever see South Park? "Children, there's a time and a place for everything - and it's called college."

...what exactly they think is truly higher education's "true purpose."

BULLSHIT

I'd say that it has changed over time, adapting and adopting new ways of thinking and being, or is there some alleged "golden age" of higher education? How far back would that be?

https://russblib.blogspot.com

Which is why I have no intentions to ever set foot in WV.

You won't learn anything, but grading is a no-brainer., easy A.

Invent a crisis and use it to energize your Racism.
Teaching Humans to Love and Respect each other IS Woke. Only immoral, unethical and hateful people don’t know it. Will it finally dawn on them when their religion’s Hell-Fire goes to work on them?

Isn’t a requirement to be one.
I’m assuming the literature doesn’t mention that.

Will be a short chapter in all textbooks used to teach Race and Ethnic Relations classes

Greco-roman philosophical tradition (the basis of western "debate" tradition, mathematics, ethics, logic, and reason) cannot be separated from the pederasty that defined and structurally supported it.

Socrates wasn't teaching women how to reason.

Yeah, Socrates "corrupted the youth." Indeed.

The ideal love relationship in Ancient Greek philosophical times was between an older man and an adolescent boy.

Women were only used for reproduction, not romantic love.

for them.

Meanwhile, true story, my relatives moved there because their daughter had a job there and could not find any child care person who didn't have a meth or oxy conviction.

But $3 million for drug abuse mitigation would just be waste, fraud and abuse. Amiright?

That's a safe money bet. I'd also wager that he has many interesting collections in his bedroom.

People afraid of "woke" are not the kind of people who go to class; certainly not voluntarily.

Try recruiting students at your local tractor pull; or a monster truck rally.

One student they won’t dare flunk.

and has millions of dollars to spend brainwashing one college student.