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Woke

A racist movement that celebrates opression and hates white people, and if there is no opression they will do a Jussie Smollet
"white people are evil, but im not racist" (woke person)
by robjov January 26, 2022
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A term that originated in black communities; a AAVE (African American Vernacular Enlgish) slang for being aware of the social injustices around oneself.

During and after the Black Lives Matter movement, the term has been thrown around and its original meaning lost, as the negative perception of the BLM movement + new media and content that makes an effort to be inclusive, affects the general interpretation of the word.

Now, its often seen being used to describe a person/entity of trying too hard to show diversity and be inclusive, for the pure sake of crowd pleasing.

The people who use this word with a negative connotation tend to be right-wing/conservative in their political beliefs; the majority being White. The people who use "woke" with its original meaning intended, tend to be left-wing/liberal in their political beliefs; which most groups tend to be ethnically and religiously diverse.

Notes: Younger generations seem to use it in a positive sense, older generations tend to apply negative connotations. "Younger" generations are now stepping up and into positions of power and authority: becoming politicians, educators, and creating new movies and media. both generations are seeing normalized sexualization, racism, misogyny, etc being filtered out, and feel different ways about them.
original intended meaning:
"Make sure you know your rights when dealing with law enforcement. Stay woke!"

"Stay woke out there- its against federal law to prevent employees from sharing wage information. They'll take advantage of you if they can."

conservative-evolved meaning:

"The Little Mermaid is WHITE, Disney needs to stop being woke!"

"Woke liberals are trying to indoctrinate children into thinking they are gay."
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Woke

(adj.) A state of awareness only achieved by those dumb enough to find injustice in everything except their own behavior.
Disney has been getting too woke lately
Go woke, go broke
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The president said something that's too woke and I'm mad
by sillyamerican062 November 21, 2022
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red-pill for blue-pilled people
Fuck straws they're bad for turtles, I wish more people were woke to these issues like me.
by hahapoopie4323 December 29, 2019
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Woke

When you're so open minded that your brains fall out.
Washington DC is so woke, they no longer have a name for their NFL team... Even though the Indians, Braves, and Seminoles are just as racist.
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Where you have experienced a massive shift and you start questioning everything in life and all the people around you. Its like youve unlocked a whole new perspective of thinking and seeing things.
"you rlly believe in that shit bro?"
"nah bro im messing wit you im woke"
"good"
by quandale quantavious October 14, 2022
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