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In reply to the discussion: "Woke", "cancel culture", and the meaning of words [View all]Beastly Boy
(9,274 posts)In his comment, Carville did not intrude into Black spaces at all. On the contrary, he made it clear that his problem with how "woke" is being used originates outside of Black spaces where the term has a well established meaning that doesn't require further explanation. He was talking about Democrats using the term, specifically those Democrats who do not define Black spaces. His point was that when, as an instance, a white Democrat talks about "wokenesness" to an audience of apolitical Latino immigrants, it is like someone who just learned a foreign language speaking that language to an audience who don't understand it at all.
Try to imagine a blind person describing what a flower looks like to a deaf person upon hearing the description from a black person. We can all see a problem with this scenario. That's the problem Carville is talking about.