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As the National Book Awards came to a close on Wednesday, finalists for the prestigious literary prizes took the stage in New York to speak about the Israel-Hamas war, with others at the ceremony also choosing to address banned books.

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    • Lem Jukes
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      that’s because “wokeism” has become a right wing dogwhistle for basically ‘anything that forces us to confront our shitty and outdated ideas’.

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    • Omega
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      Whether woke is good or bad depends entirely on how it’s defined. I generally see it as an antithesis to ignorance. So a combination of both educated and rational thinking.

      Sometimes it describes things that are educated and irrational thinking, which is ironically what the right does a lot. Basically fear mongering.

      Then you just use the two interchangeably to make it sound like rational observations are radical.

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        • Omega
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          Oh I know. But even then they’re intentionally inconsistent so the good and bad gets mixed in together.

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