And how it became an expletive, something everyone thought was something minorities threw themselves at to escape collective responsibility.

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Britta Matistad Ingest, journalist

The awakening is small, delicate, and a shiver.

To be awake is to be too weak, too preoccupied with something vague, absurd, and contrived.

“Restrain yourself!” The majority snores. “Then you have to put up with it!”

bear that much?

Carrying something you never had to. Carrying something you consider to be just a theoretical exercise. Something she considers “linguistic coercion” and censorship she quickly calls “cancel culture”.

Something would be a funny story in the media, which do not think over now.

Something that happens in other countries and is imported by minorities to make your life difficult.

In other countries – including the United States, the “beacon of democracy” – they met with Bell.

laws that would outlaw the teaching of slavery in African-American history; Who will ban expressions of gender other than binary, who will ban women from having abortions, who will ban contraceptives, and who will call withdrawals showing child abuse.

You are not prevented from anything.

on the contrary.

You are being hailed as a hero and a martyr for calling someone “very dark-skinned,” “very manly,” and “very vulnerable.”

You giggle awake.

But you yourself are the most awake of all.

Suddenly you’re obsessed with a painting you’ve never seen before IRL, that you may vaguely remember from middle school, but suddenly consider the most important thing ever created.

You don’t understand what waking up is.

• Woke gives your kids a childhood you didn’t have because questioning authority in the ’70s was unheard of.
• Woke gives your sister the power to say “no” to someone she thinks she should “put up with”.
• Wook demands freedom, to be treated as an individual rather than a “sheep”, to be allowed to criticize, and to be allowed to ask “why is that?”.

Things you take for granted, but scoff at when someone younger than you tries to use them.