Abstract: The misappropriation of marginalised communities’ terminology by the wider public is a particularly modern and nefarious form of discriminatory practice, fuelled increasingly by social media. Using these terms outside their original context warps their meaning, decreasing the intelligibility of the experiences of the marginalised agents who use them when attempting to express themselves both within their community and without.

I intend to give an analysis of this phenomena, with the expectation that understanding it better will provide a crucial step in combatting it. To this end I will argue it can best be understood as a specialised form of what Kristie Dotson calls ‘contributory injustice’combined with a specific consequence of what Boyd and Marwick call ‘context collapse’. The result is a novel phenomena I label ‘Context-Collapsed Contributory Injustice’ or ‘CC.CI’.

In addition, I will argue that CC.CI causes a novel from of what Miranda Fricker calls ‘hermeneutical injustice’, which is demarcated by its ability to reintroduce conceptual lacunas by undermining existing hermeneutical resources.

Throughout, I will focus on the example case of the misappropriation of the concept ‘woke’ as it is used on black twitter (which is, roughly, the subsection of twitter users who are black and tweet with the intended audience of other black users).