Wokisme
Le wokisme est-il une invention de l’extrême-droite ?
Nombre de militants d’extrême-gauche prétendent que les termes woke/wokisme seraient une invention dénuée de sens de l’extrême-droite, alors que ce concept a été forgé en 2018 par les élites intellectuelles d’extrême gauche, universitaires américaines, dans les écrits fondateurs à l’origine de ce mouvement :
📖 ROY, Laura A. (2018). Teaching While White: Addressing the Intersections of Race and Immigration in the Classroom, pp. 150–151. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD.
“The notion of “getting woke” (or staying woke) is defined as being acutely aware of racial and social injustice—not just awareness and acknowledgement of isolated incidents, but awareness from a position of understanding systemic and institutional racism. … The notion of getting woke encapsulates the first stage of becoming an accomplice in addressing the system of racism… White accomplices should strive to be woke enough not to call themselves woke and instead strive to embody this state of being by building with people of color. … Be in a perpetual state of learning and be woke enough to know you are never woke enough.”
📖 BUNYASI, Tehama Lopez, SMITH, Candis Watts Smith. (2019). Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter, p. 12. New York University Press.
“Just so we’re all on the same page, we should mention that having knowledge about the facts of racism and the mechanisms that (re)produce racial inequality doesn’t necessarily make someone “woke.” There are many people who know the facts and use them to insist on anti-Black narratives and pursue public policy that enhance racial inequity. Knowledge is a necessary but not sufficient component of being anti-racist. You have to put your knowledge to use in order to eradicate the problems of racial injustice.”