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A term that was supposed to mean something good (being aware to social injustice and discrimination), but now it has turned into an insult that means "overly sensitive" or "pretending to be woke". Mostly used against the actual pseudo-woke, but sometimes used against ordinary people who have enough ACTUAL wokeness to call out the insult user's blatant racism/sexist/etc.

It practically got ruined by the pseudo-wokeness seen in Twitter warriors and "progressive" companies.

Having enough wokeness to recognize actual bigotry is a good thing, but please don't be a Twitter warrior.
Little sibling who just learned the word "woke": Hey I am proud to be woke

Older sibling: You shouldn't call yourself woke in public or online. That word has turned into an insult used against those pretending to be woke, like in being overly sensitive to the smallest details that are somehow "racist" or "sexist" by some warped logic or by straight-up discriminating against white people and men as an attempt to "counter" discrimination against people of color and women. Long story short they'll think you're oversensitive or even a hypocritical bigot.

Little sibling who now knows why the term "woke" has a stained reputation: Ok thanks for reminding me about this.
A far left ideology that teaches young impressionable people, that their feelings are more important than facts.
These woke people are destroying black owned businesses but claim they’re fighting racism.
Woke by Consuelasdad April 23, 2023
WOKE: WILL ONLY KRITICIZE EUROPE.
In response to the "Bethany Mandel, Conservative author, struggles to define WOKE" issue of 3/23,
I commented on Christopher Rufo's 4/26/2023 video
"The Assault on Sexual “Normativity” Is an Assault on the Basic Structure of Reality"
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WOKE = Will Only Kriticize Europe.
8:30 CR understands WOKE as James Lindsay does. JL: "Communism doesn't know how." "Ruthless criticism of all that exists." CR: "It functions almost entirely on the process of negation." and he then proceeds to throb with commie-wrecker energy.
But his formulations for WOKE, while accurate, aren't as short and snappy as mine. ;)
There was a need, a few weeks ago, for a SHORT & SNAPPY definition of WOKE.

Here's one to take & run with!
"Only" to be taken in many senses.
Woke will never criticize non-European cultures; Woke will never be able to do anything by itself.
WOKE: WILL ONLY CRITICIZE EUROPE.
WOKE by Didaskalos April 26, 2023
WORLDWIDE ORGANIZED KINDNESS EDUCATION. W.O.K.E.
The word woke stands for Worldwidw Organized Kindness Education W.O.K.E
WOKE by #aimforpeace April 29, 2023
originally an African American grammatical error, dating back to at least the 1940s, meaning AWAKE in a political sense. In the 2010s Black Lives Matter (BLM), introduced it to a wider audience. It was immediately misappropriated by white middle class pseudo intellectuals, and used as a virtue signal. The irony being that the people who claimed they were WOKE were always the least AWAKE.

Now used as an insult to describe people that don't have any knowledge or understanding of any socio-political concepts (except that which is drip fed to them by the main stream media and education system), but like to make a lot of noise and trouble for everyone else. Cancel culture is WOKE, political correctness is WOKE, things that don't exist like, white privilege and systemic racism are WOKE ideas, critical race theory and critical queer theory, are both WOKE.
To use an example from the film The Matrix. WOKE people are those that took the blue pill but have convinced themselves that the took the red pill.
WOKE by Rikstir May 3, 2023
1. One who cannot be blind to the Madness of this world. A person who sees injustices and inequalities and refuses to adhere to them and takes the necessary means to denounce them.

A person who fights for peace, fair values and advocates for a more inclusive world

2. syn ; AWAKEN
2.1 : someone who shows no acceptance (acceptance: letting unacceptable things happen without reacting. Turning a blind eye to the obvious)

3. symbolically, a mirror

4. Neo-Anarchism / Neo-Queerness

Anarchist who redefines the rules of knowing how to live rather than believing in the abolition of the rules

Queer - without connotation related to gender identity or sexual orientation. Difference. Queer line of thought.

5. Community / Pride
1. A stubborn right-wing conservative got a taste of his own medicine when a Woke served as his mirror and publicly denounced his antiquated fascism
1.1: I don't believe in fighting fire with flowers. You got to speak the language of your opponents.

2. I can't NOT SEE anymore. All this crap around me... I am awaken now. Proud to be a Woke

2.1 : As a Woke, I will not tolerate any hateful or unequal behavior. I loudly denounce every gesture, every word and every thought that puts the safety and validity of my peers at risk

3. Being a Woke, you must be a stark reflection of the society you live in and you must put that reality in the face of the perpetrators of human hate crimes.

4. Don't let your queerness be defined by your gender identity or sexual orientation.
Being Queer means thinking outside the box. It means wanting to do things differently.

5. Being part of the Woke Community allows me to realize all the madness of this world and allows me to refuse to join. I can now find myself with people who think and act like me and fight for the right causes without fear of being alone.
Woke by F4TT4L May 19, 2023