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Woke isn't through with us

Reports of woke's death are being highly exaggerated.

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Carl Beijer
Jun 04, 2026
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Writer and Twitter pundit Ettingermentum recently started a new round of discourse on the failures of wokeness (or as the kids call it, woke 1.0). I remain skeptical of “wokeness” as a concept, mostly because it bundles together a bunch of things that aren’t entirely related, and in part because the concept remains alm…

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