Webone word has become unavoidable on the campaign trail — woke.

Webin today's cancel culture, many believe making the world a better place means banishing some opinions from the public sphere.

But what does it really mean and where does it come from?

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Webarticles about these subjects regularly employ alarmist language to establish constructs like a woke “orthodoxy” dedicated to vaporising swathes of british heritage and culture.

Webwokeness silences ideas and positions that are adverse to social justice.

The word has a long and serious.

John mcwhorter, associate professor of english.

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