What is "woke"?

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Since our public information may allow for a multiplicity of
groups, the same speech act may virtue signal when evaluated with respect to one
group’s preferred evaluative standards and vice signal when evaluated with respect
to another group’s. In the central cases of virtue-signaling-as-vice-signaling cases,
like the Son of Baldwin case given in the introduction, it is precisely because an act
is thought to vice signal with respect to the out-group’s standards that it functions
as virtue signaling in the in-group

https://www.jesp.org/paper/36346f73-...f-e692c97be25c

[Winehole23]

The discussion of the pros and cons of vice signaling in this section will presume
this level of generality to the insights about moral grandstanding discussed so far.
I take it that vice signaling has many of the same potential benets and upshots
that virtue signaling or grandstanding have generally, as Levy’s article explains:
vice signaling can express genuinely held moral commitments and contribute to
public discussion.

But it is nevertheless worth mentioning two benefit that are
especially salient for the vice-signaling subset of virtue-signaling actions.


.. Vice Signaling Can Serve as a Basis for Solidarity

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Republican legislators dictating curriculum and political ideology to Texas universities won't end well for Texas universities

Texas Tech University faculty say restrictions on instruction about race, sex, gender iden y and sexual orientation prompted changes or requests for changes in 277 courses, according to a new survey.

The Faculty Senate survey found about half of respondents said they changed course content on their own because of concerns about the memos from system leaders, while roughly a quarter said administrators or other university personnel asked them to.

More than half of the 367 respondents noted they were looking for jobs elsewhere because of the restrictions that started trickling down in the fall semester.

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/05...essons-survey/