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In this episode, Elif Shafak is focusing on the word #WOKE. Do you know what this really means?
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Welcome to our RU-vid channel, solely dedicated to words.
Say Your Word is a digital platform by the acclaimed novelist, storyteller and women’s rights activist Elif Shafak.
A platform for words and anyone who cares about them.
Language is the key to understanding and unlocking our world.
It is also the key to the human heart.
Words are often said to have power.
What is not said that often is that they can hurt and even spread hatred and hostility, just like they can heal and bring about love, empathy and wisdom.
They can divide, distance and "dehumanise", just like they can connect and “rehumanise" those who have been dehumanised.
East and West, North and South, regardless of race, sex, gender, colour, religion, ethnicity, nationality or any other category, we are all made of stories.
Stories bring us together, untold stories keep us apart.
Today's word is WOKE.
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@garrymilner3294 Год назад

Thank you. I think this is the sixth definition of woke I have listened to. I have asked other people to define it and got no real answer. And it makes it clear to me that most people do not use it this way. Or they have no understanding of what it means. Or understand what it means and choose to use the idea to support the meaning they want it to have.

@maryt.2067 Год назад

this is definitely not what is going on. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zA5v34S-96k.html

@thekherham9281 8 месяцев назад

I'm getting sick and tired of this word. The only way I use it is when I say, I woke up at 7:00 this morning. That's my definition of woke.

@anahung2182 Месяц назад

❤❤❤

@kbc1883 2 года назад

This was very helpful. Thank you. I find it interesting and saddening that wokeness has now become utilized by many who profess to be open minded, caring about diversity, but then their behavior is the opposite. Some of the most harsh, closed-minded, disrespectful folks who will shut down any conversation that includes diversity of thought, values, perspective, politics, etc are the ones who think they are woke. I have felt myself losing my own empathic nature, shutting down re: caring about the plight of others because of the barrage of vitriol and exclusion and blaming coming from the woke crowd. It is hard work to not let their insistence on one ideology being the only acceptable one and bullying those that they think aren't adhering to that ideology erode a caring spirit. I love how hearing this background info helps me reconnect with the word's past and evolution. Enlightening!

@blackallday Год назад

She's wrong how is she going to explain something she doesn't understand woke is spiritual not political or anything She's talking about she tried to put something together but no when a person is woke there 100% fully aware She's has no idea what she's talking about

@kbc1883 Год назад

@@blackallday Do you have any references that talk about this that you do agree with and think explain it well? Or can you offer an explanation that would elucidate? I’d be interested.

@kemeu_ 2 года назад

The word is greatly misused nowadays. 🙁

@florindaborici5366 2 года назад

Thank you for this well researched explanation. I love all your videos and I'm currently reading all your books.🤗

@olumuyiwalafe7768 9 месяцев назад

It is human nature to pervert every word in any Language - a classic sign of moral degeneration due to excessive access to Knowledge. Thank you, for elaborating on the original and positive use of the WOKE. More power to you and I enjoy your works of Literature, Elif Shafak.

@ande3786 2 года назад

The journey of a word among different types of seeing the world is very interesting. As you inform us, the word WOKE has a positive meaning but also a negative one. And this could be because we are so disconnected from each other but we feel connected with our virtual space. The real space outside the screen is very different and much more fragile and we must care about it. We must care about the other, we must care about the planet, we must care about our future. It is so unfair for the young people who don't have the opportunity to live a normal life because of crazy maniacs who give us wars and dangerous concepts to live with.

@blackallday Год назад

No it's not she's making up things she's lost

@FatimaAli-en3zn 2 года назад

Wawo, thanks for your sincere efforts you got such a philosophical wisdom..I learned soich from you...

@wajailyas4282 2 года назад

U take us to a different journey through your wordplay, thank u for being a part of my small world

@VictorBerumen Год назад

Thanks a lot for explaining this word.

@dondavis5633 Год назад

Finally an explanation that I can understand and internalize. Thanks so much!

@americanmarxist6597 Год назад

This was a very thoughtful and informative video 👍

@amrith.3295 7 месяцев назад

EXCELLENT HONOURABLE GOD BLESS YOU.

@sharonmurphy3024 Год назад

Thanks for ur excellent breakdown on.WOKE

@MsSomosomo Год назад

Best explanation of woke..i came across sofa🔥🔥💐💐

@sq3rsq3r12 2 года назад

Amazing ♥️♥️♥️

@andrewwilson711 Год назад

I like all.your videos your honest opinions make me think.deeply I thank you beautiful intelligent lady 🥰

@alisahughley399 Год назад

Well researched and developed video essay.

@eemann007 Год назад

Progressive, intersectional, social justice sounds very much like the historical social and political vocabulary of PRAVDA.

@Jack-zr2kv Год назад

Very well explained

@LearnThaiRapidMethod 8 месяцев назад

I never understood the widespread disdain and resistance to the idea of “woke”. So today I’ve been looking up what it really means, wondering whether it has some kind of fascist root. I now understand that anti-woke sentiment is actually a subtle and sneaky justification for discrimination, injustice and privilege.

@martin-aoki Год назад

Me is not a native English speaker, but for some reasons I was searching for an English explanation of "woke'. As the whole topic is not so easy to understand, I watched several videos with not having learend much. But, then your short lecture was really helpful to me, especially because of the neutral and clear explanations. So: just thank you! Good job!

@FatimaAli-en3zn 2 года назад

Seni seviyorum my mentor ❤️🌹

@faizharon6433 Год назад

Mashalla

@INSEARCHOFPURPOSE23 4 месяца назад

Thank you for explaining what woke actually means. Being from india it was difficult for me to understand as english is not my mother tongue.

@jackdaugherty9402 3 дня назад

I need a list of your post showing the different sides and their use of it. I gave a list to a conservative and asked them to give me a list of what they think it is. They could not do it. I have searched the internet and there is not a list. A list seems easy.

@johnparochelli9202 Год назад

An element of our society views "rights" as a zero sum game. If person's formerly devoided of rights acquire them, historic rights holders will be diminished. There is a sad tradition of denigrating that which enters mainstream culture having first been fomented in marginalized communities. Examples like "anti woke" or deriding athletes for kneeling, are recent enough to warrant comment in mass media. The same or similar ideologues claimed that Jazz music would force listeners to commit horrific crimes when mainstream artists connected with mainstream listeners. Rap music was the subject of serious efforts to ban it, going so far as to illegalize it shortly before the music industry found out how much money they could make selling it. This "anti woke" sentiment appears to be another in an almost endless list of cultural expressions that illicit a fear/hate response from rights holders toward the disenfranchised. Your informative, thoughtful video is much appreciated, and I will endeavor to find more of your work, and quietly contemplate.

@mbs0710 2 года назад

1st ;)

@peterbe6892 2 года назад

Absolutely

@liamg2271 Год назад

I love Elif Shafak and think she's an incredible novelist. I don't disagree with her linguistic interpretation of the word. Nevertheless, when she sites the moment that "woke" became used as the spearhead for social and racial justice, in Ferguson and Michael Brown, she neglects to mention what actually happened in that particular case. The fact is the officer acted in self-defense, was attacked by Brown, it was investigated by Obama's justice department, and yet Michael Brown was hailed as this martyr which couldn't be further from the truth. So while I agree with the pure definition and origin of the word, the reason it became so politicized is because what was reported in Ferguson, MO was a total prevarication. The use of the word has been hijacked politically on both sides but invoking racism and injustice, when it actually isn't present at all, exacerbates the pure meaning and true definition of woke.

@creaturecaldwell9858 Год назад

I'm not without care for anyone..whether in Afghanistan or some other place but..seems we can keep ourselves out of the goings on of other places..the higher up's spend our resources on paying debtes and supporting people who from some other country ..when we are supposed to grow properous ..instead they keep changing the level of taxing the citizens ..the poor class is growing ..changing retirment age from 62 to 67 ..threats of social securety being taken away.

@sanctuary1407 Год назад

Thank you for defining the Word for me, I have found it very confusing, this is where I find Prince Harry's wife, whips up racism to help herself, I find it incredibly sad, that she received an award for helping racism, when she has now come out to say that no one has been racist to her, these types of people makes the real people that do receive racist slurs, aren't helped due to people not believing them, It would help if she gave the award back, and say sorry

@rogersam1294 Год назад

All I know is that I've never wanted to discriminate against people...until the pandemic. Now I don't feel anything for "minorities".

@ashamuraleedharan9163 Год назад

What do you mean by "woke free"? Please explain. I am confused

@blugreen99 9 месяцев назад

What about Terf rights?

@darrell6642 Год назад

I listened to her explanation and the dictionary's definition and I have a question. Why is the Republicans so against Woke? They even use the term Anti-Woke now to define where they stand and what side they are on. Now WOKE is a derogatory term. Why?

@TheBennik Год назад

They're politicians. They're going to favor a certain class of people. Those class of people pay them money to spread a message. These politicians know right from wrong. But when you get paid millions of dollars, you're going to pick sides and preach that side everyday every night. No matter how wrong you are, you will keep preaching it as long as you get paid

@user-cx3jn7cq8e Год назад

Mi hael Brown attacked a police officer and reached inside the car the policeman was sitting in and tried to grab his gun. The officer's gun going off inside the car...

@anorbert38 Год назад

Why is it a difficult word??

@ordyhorizonrivieredunord712 Год назад

🪔

@user-bh5xo1lo9s Год назад

She should literally inform Desantis

@greywalters9903 4 дня назад

The local mob reacted prematurely to the shooting of Michael Brown, before any investigation, before having any knowledge of what transpired. Michael Brown was stopped on the street by a cop and asked if he knew anything about the petty theft he had just committed at a convenience store. Brown reacted by attacking the cop and trying to take his pistol. Brown was 6'4" 280#, the cop was a smaller and wimpier guy. Brown ran away, only to turn around and come charging at the cop again. That was when he was shot. A grand jury, with a representative percentage of people of color, voted almost unanimously to not indict. An FBI investigation into civil rights abuses cleared the officer. The black district attorney investigated, found the cop acted appropriately. Most of the witnesses were black. Facts matter.

@garycunningham9216 Месяц назад

Woke. People that have begun to be engaged about public policy both local and national issues. People want answers,to give their opinions. Woke is a word that conservative News made up to discredit people that are not in agreement with them. TFB !

@toorangorgizadeh7760 2 года назад

شممس وقمرم آمد ،نوربصرم آمد،آن سیمبرم آمد،وان کان زرم آمد،،،،،،الیف شفقم آمد، عشق ملتم آمد،،،الیف جان ایران تشریف بیارید خوشحال می شویم....

@Channel_x_7 3 месяца назад

Nowadays wokeness means is i'll will protest,freepalestine,i identify as,illegal is legal....

@johnlaccohee-joslin4477 9 месяцев назад

What is really being said is this is a word that we really do not need. We already have the prober words to describe our awareness why not use them instead of thinking of something else that is suddenly tnought of as being a way to show wecare smarter than the next because we have this word we use to enlighten someone we are aware. Tbhis stupid idea of continual acronims or jingoism is both childish and certainly uneeded, lets just call a spade what it is, a space. Saying you are woke does not say what you are woke about, so why use the word in the first place.

@Doubt2024 2 месяца назад

The ease in hijacking such a buzzing word implies the vagueness of a political narratives. Unsubstantiated at most.

@jaredvaughan1665 9 месяцев назад

I think the Middle East needs to be more Woke. Europe less Woke. The truth is in the middle.

@victor03000 8 месяцев назад

It’s a word to describe the self righteous and secular moral inquisitors

@blackallday Год назад

No, that's not woke lady wrong love this word woke because some people can't use it because this is not what is mean

@SF.Carlos 10 месяцев назад

Unfortunately, WOKE has been used aggressively in the wrong context; fighting institutionalized racism & injustice should be a peaceful and an open form of dialogue in activism; not a another sect or cult supper imposed on the population.