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How ‘Woke’ Changed From a Warning Against Racism Into a Conspiracy Word

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What does *woke* have to do with the World Economic Forum or WEF? Well, semantic drift: words shift in meaning as different groups run with them. Diederik explains how that works in this video: The origin lies in a deeply racist American past. In 1931, nine black boys in Alabama were falsely accused of […] More science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl.
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What does *woke* have to do with the World Economic Forum or WEF? Well, semantic drift: words shift in meaning as different groups run with them. Diederik explains how that works in this video: The origin lies in a deeply racist American past. In 1931, nine black boys in Alabama were falsely accused of […] More science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl.

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scientias.nl broke the news in Middelharnis, Netherlands (Kingdom of the) on Monday, May 4, 2026.
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