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.
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.
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Past tense of Wake (v.)
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Get the Woke mug.A term created by GOP leaders to evoke negative images in their half witted base so they become angry toward their neighbors. It's basically a horoscope of hate. Look at it long enough and you'll find something you despise.
Wokeness is a danger to your life and everything in it. Don't ask me what it actually means. I can only tell you that it's whatever you are afraid of and I'm against it. Vote for me!
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"Fat is the new thin", declared the woke person, not realising living over 40 is more important than fake feelings.
Woke people are like small children, everything is about who said it first, regardless of the validity or the content of the thing in question. If it was their idea, then it is noble and breaking free, if it was any hated group's idea then it is offensive and oppressive. The thing in question could literally be anything.
Woke people are like small children, everything is about who said it first, regardless of the validity or the content of the thing in question. If it was their idea, then it is noble and breaking free, if it was any hated group's idea then it is offensive and oppressive. The thing in question could literally be anything.
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I saw a woke walk into 7-11 and call the gas attendant racist for not agreeing that Trump is a white Supremacist.
The woke mother attacked me for not getting my Co vid Vaccine.
The woke mother attacked me for not getting my Co vid Vaccine.
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Get the woke mug.A term mostly used by some people on BandLab named projekt5 and Grøøt, which has a lot of meanings, most notably meaning that a person woke up or that something is amazing. Derived from Grøøt's own song "Daily Routine"
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