There is a hashtag in social media that describes a recent, though hardly novel concept: #WOKE. In this current context, being “woke” is a description of a politically charged state of consciousness, above and beyond previously normal states, that entails a new level of hyper-awareness of the social and political climate, particularly regarding the plight of underrepresented and oppressed minorities and the economically powerless. It entails a new understanding of, and a new attitude towards, the underlying inequities in our…

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