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Woke

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!”
by ChefJPB May 10, 2021
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Schrödinger's Wokeness

The belief that all forms of pop culture have always been "woke" while they are also simultaneously in need of being "updated for modern audiences".
Person 1: Dude, everything is always been woke! But we also need to change them so that nobody today gets offended.
Person 2: Sounds like Schrödinger's Wokeness: everything always was - and never was - woke. smh...
by ClownWorld20XX April 10, 2024
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neo-woke

Someone who truly began seeing things as they are, someone who can't be affected by propaganda, someone who can tell a lie from truth.
-Did you watch CNN yesterday?
-No, I'm neo-woke.
by Quodd April 19, 2022
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Woke

A word that conservative old out-of-touch white people use to describe progressive concepts to other conservative old out-of-touch white people in way that will scare them
we can’t bring the kids to Disney anymore. Jimbo said last time he went, the woke employees were requiring vaccinations to common illnesses and not segregating the water fountains
by Gib88 April 6, 2022
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WOKE

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.
by Didaskalos April 26, 2023
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Woke

An adjective used to describe people whi are utterly incapable of holding an opinion contrary to the government-approved narrative.
My woke sister unironically believes gender is a social construct.
by FDC 1 March 21, 2024
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WOKE

A term used mostly used by racial separatist. This group of "woke" people insist that the majority of Caucasian people are racist, when in reality it is them, the "woke" who are the racist. Continually they separate people by color of their skin.
My friend is woke and is not a racist.
by TeddyR43223 August 21, 2022
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