Adjective
1. Informed, educated or being enlightened. The opposite of ignorance.
2. The false sense of moral superiority a person feels they have gained after doing the bare minimum. Especially when it comes to subjects such as race, religion, sex and politics. Similar to Virtue Signalling.
1. Informed, educated or being enlightened. The opposite of ignorance.
2. The false sense of moral superiority a person feels they have gained after doing the bare minimum. Especially when it comes to subjects such as race, religion, sex and politics. Similar to Virtue Signalling.
1. A woke Caucasian college professor tells his students that the best way to combat prejudice is to actually go out and make the effort to simply TALK to someone who doesn't look like you. Get to know them as people instead of their skin color, gender or religion.
2. A big company wants to know how they can combat racism in America. They decide to remove the black person from the cover of their product's packaging. It solves nothing. The company issues a statement that someone was paid to write for them, black people roll their eyes and the company moves on, feeling that they have done their part and they're now woke because of it.
2. A big company wants to know how they can combat racism in America. They decide to remove the black person from the cover of their product's packaging. It solves nothing. The company issues a statement that someone was paid to write for them, black people roll their eyes and the company moves on, feeling that they have done their part and they're now woke because of it.
by Generation Xero April 2, 2023
by kmptR April 11, 2023
Woke as of 2021: The act of relishing and engaging in the freedoms of verbal and visual expressions afforded under Freedom of Speech in the First Amendment of the US Constitution, while denying it to others with opposing verbal or visual expressions.
Wikipedia -
"a general term for left-wing political movements and perspectives emphasizing identity politics"; "While the term 'woke' initially pertained to issues of racial prejudice and discrimination impacting African Americans, it was appropriated by other activist groups with different causes."
Wikipedia -
"a general term for left-wing political movements and perspectives emphasizing identity politics"; "While the term 'woke' initially pertained to issues of racial prejudice and discrimination impacting African Americans, it was appropriated by other activist groups with different causes."
"we need to stay angry, and stay woke" - from Oxford Languages
"Suddenly everything in the world seems to be a confrontation between the woke and the unwoke. It’s a framing that’s neither edifying nor illuminating." - Kenan Malik, The Guardian
" Is America on the verge of substituting woke socialism for Judeo-Christian ethics?" - Richard B. Levine, Washington Times
"Suddenly everything in the world seems to be a confrontation between the woke and the unwoke. It’s a framing that’s neither edifying nor illuminating." - Kenan Malik, The Guardian
" Is America on the verge of substituting woke socialism for Judeo-Christian ethics?" - Richard B. Levine, Washington Times
by CrustyEyeFunk August 19, 2021
A state of awareness only achieved by those dumb enough to find injustice in everything except their own behavior.
by Peterparkedcar December 13, 2022
by thine1 November 14, 2022
A slang term used to describe someone who is awake, as in aware; enlightened; brought out of the darkness; the blinders having been removed; having taken the "red pill" (a reference to The Matrix) wherein the person is brought out of a false reality into actual reality; finally seeing the big picture; no longer asleep about an issue; someone who finally gets it.
He finally realized the issue that in American the problems we are facing are being pushed by the far-Left narrative, which has hijacked the term "liberal," the media, the education system, and the Democrat party. He is woke.
She is woke to the fact that Americans are being pitted against each other by the powers-that-be.
She is woke to the fact that Americans are being pitted against each other by the powers-that-be.
by HotDJDave June 7, 2020