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Funny Stay Woke Meme Analysis

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Fig.1 Not only does this meme make fun of the hashtag stay woke, it also makes fun of how some people take racism seriously (“Funny Stay Woke Memes of 2017”). They make racism seem like some sort of extreme concept. The sentence within the meme shows that conjectured extreme. Next comes the people who actually take this word seriously. More often than not woke gets used incorrectly. Not everyone using it has a black racial background. Because woke has racial connotations and the black community has a culture that deals with racism, taking the word woke and using it the wrong way is a form of cultural appropriation (Defares). At the end of the day a black person may know that they need to have some level of social awareness because of how much
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