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.
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by Old Phardt May 13, 2024
Get the Woke scum mug.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.
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!”
2.) “I’m so sick of Woke Hollywood making more and more movies with blacks and female actors!”
by ChefJPB May 10, 2021
Get the Woke mug.Hym "I didn't 'Go Woke!' You motherfuckers went woke! You're canceling the tranny and by extension fucking with my beer of choice. You tried to hoist me on my own petard because you thought you were clever. Meatball Ron is over there banning a show the might be a subsidiarity element of my thing. You went FULL woke overnight on Oct 8th. I'm not the fucking woke one here. You politics idiot have literally 1 move. Uno reverse all the way. You're just doing now the shit THEY were doing UP UNTIL now. My consistency is unparalleled. You want and are trying to leverage my situation to get me to do Jordan's work-salesmen nonsense. And the situation itself is wrong (on it's face) under the auspices of your purported 'values.' You fucking charlatans. Each and every one of you."
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1. Stay "woke".
2. If you disagree with me, you're "woke".
3. BLM is super "woke"
4. All leftist are "woke".
2. If you disagree with me, you're "woke".
3. BLM is super "woke"
4. All leftist are "woke".
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