When you try to inform people about how their actions (ie, buying certain products, wasting water, etc). are contributing to ecological devastation or social oppression, and they insultingly call you “woke”.
I tried to inform my cousins about how buying that brand of hummus contributes to Palestinians’ oppression and they I tried to inform my cousins about how buying that brand of hummus contributes to Palestinians’ oppression and they hurled the slur “woke” at me. I was wokeshamed.
by Alev May 20, 2022
Get the Wokeshame mug.Is it really killing creativity? Is that the problem? Or is it that the creatives aren’t being paid for their work and then they stop creating? Because they need, like, food and stuff and can’t spend all their time writing if they have to, I don’t know, work 9 days in a row and then debate whether or not to walk 4 miles to the laundromat to get quarters on the tenth day and spend all day doing laundry (because your whore of a wife won’t fuck me and I have to do it myself) and then either clean my house or not because because to fuck your slutty wife I need my house to be clean and then I have 1 day off after that before I have to work again. I mean I find time but I’m a genius and the plurality of my thought is so vast that were the ocean to disappear tomorrow, I could refill it with my mind. But not everyone is like me. You need to pay creatives.
by Hym Iam December 4, 2022
Get the Wokeism mug.An ideological straw person the makes a pejorative out of the perceived excesses of socially liberal politics in the West, and especially the United States. Typically, it ends up saying more about the anxieties of the conservatives who invoke it than the group they are criticizing.
"Can you believe Ayaan Hirsi Ali has a tag for 'wokeism' on her podcast website? I'm always surprised at how many New Atheist types ended up becoming fascist nut bags."
by aphroditusap February 25, 2023
Get the Wokeism mug.I’ll let the court statement of Ron DeSantis’s general counsel define it. “Wokeism is a view that there are systemic injustices in American society, and the need to have policies that address them.”
Those who subscribe to wokeism are aware that statistics show that on average black men are incarcerated for longer sentences than white men who committed the same crime and that there should be policies to address this unfairness.
by OhWiseSage November 29, 2023
Get the Wokeism mug.The trans rights protest was blatant wokeism as there was not a recognizable trans person to be seen among the angry mob.
by Angelica Perduta March 18, 2024
Get the wokeism mug."Wokeism” describes a rigid, ideology-driven worldview rooted in radical social justice and intersectionality, where individuals are categorized strictly by their race, gender, and privilege. It enforces conformity through cancel culture, labels dissenting views as oppressive, and prioritizes perceived equity over merit or truth. It is marked by a focus on systemic grievances and a zero-tolerance approach to opposing perspectives, often leading to societal division.
“ After two semesters of gender studies, Basil contracted a chronic case of wokeism and came home from college with purple hair and new pronouns”
by Frandalorian May 13, 2025
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