Adjective
1. Informed, educated or being enlightened. The opposite of ignorance.
2. The false sense of moral superiority a person feels they have gained after doing the bare minimum. Especially when it comes to subjects such as race, religion, sex and politics. Similar to Virtue Signalling.
1. Informed, educated or being enlightened. The opposite of ignorance.
2. The false sense of moral superiority a person feels they have gained after doing the bare minimum. Especially when it comes to subjects such as race, religion, sex and politics. Similar to Virtue Signalling.
1. A woke Caucasian college professor tells his students that the best way to combat prejudice is to actually go out and make the effort to simply TALK to someone who doesn't look like you. Get to know them as people instead of their skin color, gender or religion.
2. A big company wants to know how they can combat racism in America. They decide to remove the black person from the cover of their product's packaging. It solves nothing. The company issues a statement that someone was paid to write for them, black people roll their eyes and the company moves on, feeling that they have done their part and they're now woke because of it.
2. A big company wants to know how they can combat racism in America. They decide to remove the black person from the cover of their product's packaging. It solves nothing. The company issues a statement that someone was paid to write for them, black people roll their eyes and the company moves on, feeling that they have done their part and they're now woke because of it.
by Generation Xero April 2, 2023
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Dumb fuck woke college kids protesting perceived injustice while supporting terrorism, rape, and anti-lgbtq policies.
by eyeknowitall June 4, 2024
Get the Woke mug.A deliberately ill-defined term functioning as a catch-all grievance basket that individuals who lean to the political right use to vaguely describe the perceived ills of society. Often used as a slur to disparage their ideological opponents, and frames being intolerant of things like intolerance, as equivalent to objectively offensive intolerant behaviour.
Person 1: Late stage capitalism has exacerbated economic inequality to historic levels.
Person 2: Whatever you say “woke mob leftist”.
Person 2: Whatever you say “woke mob leftist”.
by illGreg June 6, 2024
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"Did you hear that LGBTQ+ activist defending those Islamic extremists? That's such 'A Law Woke Bar' moment."
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Get the Woke mug.Adjective: A word used by the people screaming that everyone needs to "wake up" and then getting insanely angry they have.
by Not Today Satan June 29, 2024
Get the Woke mug.A term that originated in black communities; a AAVE (African American Vernacular Enlgish) slang for being aware of the social injustices around oneself.
During and after the Black Lives Matter movement, the term has been thrown around and its original meaning lost, as the negative perception of the BLM movement + new media and content that makes an effort to be inclusive, affects the general interpretation of the word.
Now, its often seen being used to describe a person/entity of trying too hard to show diversity and be inclusive, for the pure sake of crowd pleasing.
The people who use this word with a negative connotation tend to be right-wing/conservative in their political beliefs; the majority being White. The people who use "woke" with its original meaning intended, tend to be left-wing/liberal in their political beliefs; which most groups tend to be ethnically and religiously diverse.
Notes: Younger generations seem to use it in a positive sense, older generations tend to apply negative connotations. "Younger" generations are now stepping up and into positions of power and authority: becoming politicians, educators, and creating new movies and media. both generations are seeing normalized sexualization, racism, misogyny, etc being filtered out, and feel different ways about them.
During and after the Black Lives Matter movement, the term has been thrown around and its original meaning lost, as the negative perception of the BLM movement + new media and content that makes an effort to be inclusive, affects the general interpretation of the word.
Now, its often seen being used to describe a person/entity of trying too hard to show diversity and be inclusive, for the pure sake of crowd pleasing.
The people who use this word with a negative connotation tend to be right-wing/conservative in their political beliefs; the majority being White. The people who use "woke" with its original meaning intended, tend to be left-wing/liberal in their political beliefs; which most groups tend to be ethnically and religiously diverse.
Notes: Younger generations seem to use it in a positive sense, older generations tend to apply negative connotations. "Younger" generations are now stepping up and into positions of power and authority: becoming politicians, educators, and creating new movies and media. both generations are seeing normalized sexualization, racism, misogyny, etc being filtered out, and feel different ways about them.
original intended meaning:
"Make sure you know your rights when dealing with law enforcement. Stay woke!"
"Stay woke out there- its against federal law to prevent employees from sharing wage information. They'll take advantage of you if they can."
conservative-evolved meaning:
"The Little Mermaid is WHITE, Disney needs to stop being woke!"
"Woke liberals are trying to indoctrinate children into thinking they are gay."
"Make sure you know your rights when dealing with law enforcement. Stay woke!"
"Stay woke out there- its against federal law to prevent employees from sharing wage information. They'll take advantage of you if they can."
conservative-evolved meaning:
"The Little Mermaid is WHITE, Disney needs to stop being woke!"
"Woke liberals are trying to indoctrinate children into thinking they are gay."
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