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performative wokeness 

Learned a new phrase: "Performative Wokeness."

People who more concerned with self-promotion, social media "likes", or selling books & lectures; than they are about Actual Deliverables.
People thought Tina cared about labor issues, considering how much she Tweeted about it, but it was all performative wokeness - she had no problems crossing picket-lines if the business offered a sale.
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Wukanese 

The language resulting from heavily relying on Siri to become your translator, often resulting in incomprehensible or nonsensical sentences that resemble poorly translated Chinese. Named for the Wukan village in China.
I tried to tell my roommate that "I left my window open" by using Siri to text, but it turned into the Wukanese "I leaned my wang over".
Wukanese by ccccchris December 13, 2012

woganese 

The newest language known to man. Founded by two un-square people to improve communication. Not to be confused with the popular term: wog
Jamie:"Wogs up" Dalin: "Jag is being a woghead!" Jamie:"Oh for wog sake!" Dalin:"Wogdeed" Jamie:"he wog and wogged all wog!" Dalin:"wig wag wog!" "woganese is great!"
woganese by The Geni May 19, 2016

womanese 

a. the mysterious language of the species 'woman', which men find extremely difficult to grasp. It's primary function is as an almost impenetrable code only fully understood within their own circle. b. a form of female telepathy used to confound men. Involves giving impossiblly subtle verbal clues which the man is expected to know before they are spoken.
c. a method of communication that involves not saying something in order to communicate something.
Any conversation within a circle of women; or any word that does or does not come out of a woman's mouth.
womanese by Big Daddy December 23, 2004

wokenesia 

A disorder associated with wokeness. It is characterized by forgetting all relevant information to a topic because the headline du jour has ignited a wokespasm; and, other relevant facts are seemingly forgotten.

People who try too hard to demonstrate their wokeness often suffer from wokenesia because they hyper-focus on the latest outrage without looking at the big picture.
Early in the #metoo movement, a lot of people suffering from wokenesia pressured Al Franken to resign because the scale of Al's infringement was treated as if it were as severe as a rapists; even an accused rapist gets a fair trial that considers all of the facts and other contributions to society before weighing an appropriate punishment, if found guilty. Some might say Al was also suffering from wokenesia when he succumbed to the demands.
wokenesia by TheGaffGiraffe January 18, 2020

womanese 

An ancient, deceptive art of the female tongue which aims to confuse and entrap men into a false comfort through a cunning ability that allows a woman to say exactly the opposite of what she really means.
Actual Words: "No. It's ok. You can go out drinking with your buddies. I don't mind."

Womanese Translation: "I swear to god if you walk out of that door you're not getting sex for at least a month."
womanese by judochop November 12, 2007