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[quote=Anonymous]That's interesting, OP. I didn't know about the Lead Belly connection. I assume it was a phrasing that was used at the time and he popularized it in a song?? I think lots of "woke" terms start out kind of organically, used or reclaimed by a particular group, and are then picked up and disseminated by academics. The generous intepretation is that the academic crowd is being respectful and adopting the terminology preferred by a particular (marginalized) group. Another way to look at it - and they could both be true - is that they politicize and use terms in ways not intended by that group. In any case, sure there are Latinate and Greek-origin words like "hegemony" and "paradigm," in the woke lexicon, but the pattern you are noticing is actually pretty common.[/quote]
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