Instantaneous and convulsive
wokeness that overcomes a person like a
chest-burster from the movie Alien. It usually happens in response to the outrage headline
du jour, and often coupled with
wokenesia.
The reporter found out about Jeff Bezos' seemingly small donation for the Australian fires and had a wokespasm before fact checking Bezos' other charitable contributions. Even if the outrage is justified, it is still a wokespasm because no effort was made to consider all the facts before the convulsions of
wokeness overtook the reporter.
USAGE NOTE: Although
wokeness and
wokespasms are often seen as progressive and
libtard afflictions, conservatives also exhibit plenty of
wokeness and have wokespasms. For instance, it is common to see conservatives provide a
whataboutism in response to a wokespasm; and their
whataboutism is often a wokespasm in response to a conveniently fabricated outrage du jour, or even a past event suddenly become outrage. Sometimes they are also
straw man arguments. On the other hand, wokespasms often quickly turn into what a
Trumpster era conservative would consider
fake news.
Wing nuts on both sides are guilty of wokespasms.
