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To wake up within a world of indoctrination after reading a critical mass of western propaganda, whilst what is actually important around the world is completely owing to your diverted attention.
Woke guy:
"I've lately become more woke on China and their treatment of minorities, not to mention their lack of gay rights"
Someone else:
"I was reading some translated international news about US leaving the UN Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, why the US military are pushing into everyone else's borders and not vice-versa, and China's success in abolishing their poverty"
Woke guy:
"Uhh?"
Woke by Random wanderer April 24, 2021
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1.) A catchphrase used for decades (often as a joke) in the African American community when spotlighting examples of veiled racism hidden in social margins.

2.) Around 2016, in a blatant display of absolute racial arrogance, the word was appropriated by conservatives to be used as a pejorative term for the general support of racial equality and inclusion.
1.) “Pretextual stops and ‘Terry Frisks’ laws are all about letting cops stop and harass young black men. Stay woke!”

2.) “I’m so sick of Woke Hollywood making more and more movies with blacks and female actors!”
Woke by ChefJPB May 10, 2021
Having a profound understanding of social issues or worldly institutions on various levels.
That mf is so woke
Woke by Abu Althalj al-Snow May 16, 2021
the state of being aware of something or you understand the situation that is going on
"yeah man I'm woke"
woke by baldbitch69 May 24, 2021
Snow tha product invented woke and yt boys appropriated the word

you know about woke tv?
yes, from 2010? is good music
WOKE by anikk June 3, 2021
When you're so open minded that your brains fall out.
Washington DC is so woke, they no longer have a name for their NFL team... Even though the Indians, Braves, and Seminoles are just as racist.
Woke by Good Bear June 6, 2021
Woke as of 2021: The act of relishing and engaging in the freedoms of verbal and visual expressions afforded under Freedom of Speech in the First Amendment of the US Constitution, while denying it to others with opposing verbal or visual expressions.

Wikipedia -
"a general term for left-wing political movements and perspectives emphasizing identity politics"; "While the term 'woke' initially pertained to issues of racial prejudice and discrimination impacting African Americans, it was appropriated by other activist groups with different causes."
"we need to stay angry, and stay woke" - from Oxford Languages

"Suddenly everything in the world seems to be a confrontation between the woke and the unwoke. It’s a framing that’s neither edifying nor illuminating." - Kenan Malik, The Guardian

" Is America on the verge of substituting woke socialism for Judeo-Christian ethics?" - Richard B. Levine, Washington Times
Woke by CrustyEyeFunk August 19, 2021