What It Means to Be Woke

NYT OPINION: What It Means to Be Woke
By Ross Douthat
Section: Opinion
Source: New York Times
Published Date: March 18, 2023 at 02:00AM

It boils down to cultural and psychological project.

This week the conservative writer Bethany Mandel had the kind of moment that can happen to anyone who talks in public for a living: While promoting a new book critiquing progressivism, she was asked to define the term “woke” by an interviewer — a reasonable question, but one that made her brain freeze and her words stumble. The viral clip, in turn, yielded an outpouring of arguments about the word itself: Can it be usefully defined? Is it just a right-wing pejorative? Is there any universally accepted label for what it’s trying to describe?

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