Getting woke is like being in the Matrix and taking the red pill. You get a sudden understanding of what's really going on and find out you were wrong about much of what you understood to be truth.

A term used by right wingers and leftists to entail they "know" what goes on behind closed government doors. The woke movement itself is founded out of paranoia; mostly conspiracy nuts who have forsaken reality in favor of fighting against nonexistent issues to give them a sense of validity. With the right wing "woke" movement, the paranoia is aimed towards mostly government and scientific establishments (these guys call themselves "anti-establishment"). Among them are also flat earthers, die hard bible thumpers, and gun nuts. With these people literally EVERYTHING is a conspiracy. With the left wing woke movement, everyone is a racist if they don't agree with them. Woke leftists are mostly SJWs and feminazis who virtue signal and rely on tokenism to come across as accepting, and use false statistics to validate their outlandish paranoia. With woke leftists, the pretention is that "the powers that be" are pushing Helter Skelter in an attempt to "keep the races divided", thus giving them reason to whine and moan about racism in Hollywood, and other places where, in fact, none exists. Those who call themselves "woke" in reality are nothing more than pretentious cunts who fight nonexistent battles in their heads to make themselves feel good while being completely ignorant to the fact that paranoia and rebellion are two completely different things, and the two are not interchangeable. Get woke, go broke

What retards who don't know their arse from their elbow like to be called

The word was probably first used in 1942 by J Saunders Redding, but it is possible that it was used before this. When Redding used it, he intended it to mean stay alert for injustices or discrimination. Unfortunately it is now being used as a tool to discriminate against white people, or anything else that the Chattering Classes, Snowflakes or political opportunists find unacceptable.

I believe it is an evolving word that dances about on its slang usages, and has somewhat different nuanced meanings depending on the context.

From the running social zeitgeist, it would described it as modern hipsters referring to a person being described has been enlightened or having just discovered some politically Progressive 'truth' about society or the oppression and class status of marginalized people, and the obligation to treat them as extra-special/revered in society.

And understand that it is almost always used non-ironically/seriously only by political Progressives, so when Conservatives or Libertarians use it it mostly to poke fun at the others' usage of it.

A person who pretends to be of greater intelligence than he or she in fact is.

Another word for enlightened that's only used by unenlightened people, usually to claim superiority over anyone that thinks differently.