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This made me laugh: Wokefishing:

Putin Is Right!—About Wokeness

JOHN DERBYSHIRE • JANUARY 21, 2022

[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]

Earlier, by Steve Sailer: What If Wokeness Is A Russian Conspiracy To Ruin America?

I’m starting to be irritated by the word “Wokeness,” I’m not sure why. When “Woke” and “Wokeness” first came up, I thought they were sort of cute.

Since the 1980s, if not earlier, we had been using the cumbersome phrase “Politically Correct” to describe the idiocies of linguistic puritanism about race and sex. “Woke” was a big improvement: it replaced a two-word seven-syllable adjectival phrase with a concise one-syllable adjective. What’s not to like?

The derivative terms—”Wokeness,” “the Wokerati,” “the Great Awokening,” et cetera were likewise cute and handy.

My favorite derivative is “Wokefishing.”

That’s when cynical young males pretend to be Woke in order to lure Woke young women into sexual engagement.

I suspect my … son of having practiced Wokefishing, but he denies it.

Wokefishing as the New Legspreader.

Brought tear to my eyes.

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