Originally intended to mean "alert to civil rights issues" or "takes an enlightened approach to civil rights", its meaning has changed. It is now associated with adopting an obsessive, blinkered or deliberately obtuse approach to certain civil rights, particularly in relation to equality. It refers to an approach which is overall and on balance harmful to society, ignores context and counterpoints, and is ignorant of the wider ramifications of the position taken.
Under the pretense of being politically correct, the "woke" person is, ironically, asleep, in that they are ignorant of or unconcerned by the harms caused by their actions. Such harms may include:
• damage to freedom of expression and freedom of association
• the diminution of comedy, and artistic license in music and film, to the point that it becomes dull
• stifling of conversation
• fear of expressing an alternative opinion or calling out that which is evidently nonsense
• feelings of being browbeaten, helpless and living in a dystopian society
• diversion of societal focus away from more pressing issues affecting society
• the breakdown of language and societal structures
• discrimination and prejudice against others with particular characteristics - typically those who, in a particular location or organisation, are in a majority - under the guise of improving equality and acting on behalf of the minority.
The "woke" person may be acting in their own self-interests to achieve their own ends.
Under the pretense of being politically correct, the "woke" person is, ironically, asleep, in that they are ignorant of or unconcerned by the harms caused by their actions. Such harms may include:
• damage to freedom of expression and freedom of association
• the diminution of comedy, and artistic license in music and film, to the point that it becomes dull
• stifling of conversation
• fear of expressing an alternative opinion or calling out that which is evidently nonsense
• feelings of being browbeaten, helpless and living in a dystopian society
• diversion of societal focus away from more pressing issues affecting society
• the breakdown of language and societal structures
• discrimination and prejudice against others with particular characteristics - typically those who, in a particular location or organisation, are in a majority - under the guise of improving equality and acting on behalf of the minority.
The "woke" person may be acting in their own self-interests to achieve their own ends.
They is only one person, but they has a big effect on everyone around them. They's so woke that they can't function properly in life, it's hard to understand them, and even their friends can't keep track of their pronouns.
He's so woke that he's asleep.
Wokey dokey.
He's so woke that he's asleep.
Wokey dokey.
by peachxylophoneduck November 20, 2023
Get the wokemug. A term now embraced by middle-class white US citizens as a new buzz word to indicate participation into the conservative right-wing faction to subtly endorse racism in the 2020's. These are mostly MAGA/Trump uneducated voters or at best posses diplomas they were able to purchase from various sources of higher education like their fearless leader's dad who bought sonny boy a Wharton School sheepskin.
This replaces the buzz words of the last decade such as "triggered". For the most part these individuals don't posses the intellect to process the true meaning of these terms. It doesn't really matter, the mere use of these terms serves their purposes as a member of the aforementioned group. Here's a group who holds people like Alex Jones as their prophet.
This replaces the buzz words of the last decade such as "triggered". For the most part these individuals don't posses the intellect to process the true meaning of these terms. It doesn't really matter, the mere use of these terms serves their purposes as a member of the aforementioned group. Here's a group who holds people like Alex Jones as their prophet.
by Dr Truth PhD January 3, 2023
Get the Wokemug. 
pro-communist, anti-capitalist yet for some reason chooses to live in a capitalist country when they could move out, finding racism in everything, exhuding acceptance and tolerance by acting extremely hostile to different opinions, the incapability of critical thought, being anti-police while calling the cops for help when theyre in an emergency, hating their country because it's not an oppressive totalitarian state
me: yo did you see me shout that old woman down the other day for holding up an anti-abortion sign?
friend: sure did! that was so woke!
friend: sure did! that was so woke!
by fergus555 January 19, 2022
Get the wokemug. A person who presents themselves as being woke, or morally enlightened, but actually behaves in a smug, sanctimonious manner, and is wrong about the morality of the situation.
by darkwoke May 1, 2024
Get the Dark Wokemug. Snow tha product invented woke and yt boys appropriated the word
you know about woke tv?
yes, from 2010? is good music
you know about woke tv?
yes, from 2010? is good music
by anikk June 3, 2021
Get the WOKEmug. In the current political landscape woke simply means anti-white, or white exclusion. It can be expanded to the demonization of whites as well as perceived ignorance. Examples would include 'white privilege', 'white guilt', 'white fragility'.
by TheOtherMeToo March 21, 2023
Get the Wokemug.