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Digital media is changing language — sometimes rapidly. We explore the example of American Sign Language.
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Digital media is changing language — sometimes rapidly. We explore the example of American Sign Language.
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>> forget those legislators. i'm going talk to the kids who are actually affected by this. right now in the nation, as you all know, i'm sure, and as you're experiencing in your schools, there is a lot of america's gotten too woke. the woke mob is ruining america. i can talk to grown-ups about it who aren't actually in the classrooms. i can talk to teachers who are in the classrooms, but we really want to use the opportunity to hear from you all. eric mejia, victoria grace monroe, joey glenn, jamie laureano, and raymond duncan are a part of s.a.f.e., the student alliance for equality. also joi...
>> you heard him. wokeness. wokelash. some actually said wokesters. who says wokesters? the wokerati. the woke-illuminati? actually i just made that one up. >> this is a unique phenomenon. >> let me be clear. woke used to mean something. the phrase stay woke was one in a long line of slang that blacks invented to point to the idea that america as dangerous and we as black folks need to be careful and smart. do you know what woke is? how would you define woke? >> it's a great question in the sense that it's not even like a dictionary definition of things anymore, it's become subject to interpre...
Though? because it's not really the south. >> no. i've been calling it desert florida, because florida's the same way, it's not really the south like the south. i think there is something about here that people of all sort of political stripes like to move here because the weather. >> like florida. >> yeah, yeah. i get it. even with everybody talking about wokeness, i'm not surprised that most people don't have a working definition of woke. but i know someone who definitely does. michael harriet is yet another writer i've booked on the show who i'm jealous of. he knows exactly how to make it p...