What is woke, and why is it so annoying?

[Anonymous]

I find 'wokeness' irritating for absolutely no reason. I'm not sure if it's the hypocrisy of the liberal elite or the preposterousness of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle telling other people to get over white privilege...

but it's so frickin annoying.

Can anyone relate.

[MrHopper]

I call myself an "old school liberal" these days because i think a lot of the time people put too much focus on a word and not the context of what the person is saying. e. g. what is more acceptable... "i went into a bar last night and it was full of benders, i had the best time of my life! amazing!" ... or "i think all LGBTQ+ people should be shot"

context is everything but nothing to a lot of people, it feels to me he left has gone so far its lost a lot of its core values of freedom of speech and seems more right wing to me. Remember when we would say "i dont agree with you but i will fight for your right to say it!" ... now its more like "i dont agree with you so i will destroy you and you will never work again"

[Asker]

This!! So true

[MrHopper]

Thank you, I can't take all the credit, i listen a lot to Jonathan Pie, look on youtube for Jonathan Pie Woke Utopia... fyi this guy is a comedian who plays a news reporter and he is very left wing but very good and pointing out these sorts of things!
Links here if it works...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5TVLEaqqdI

[Hermes-Paris]

Terribly annoying. It's all just another way a group of people can legitimize hating another group of people. Nothing of value in these people. Just sheep following the latest craze. Destroy everything and anyone who does not agree with you. It's a field day for anyone who practices slander and liability law.

[Anonymous]

Why isn't it awake? The grammatical failure annoys me to no end.

[Anonymous]

The meaning woke is when you’re alert to injustice in society

[Opinion Owner]

I don’t think it’s annoying to be aware of the wrongs in society lmao

[Shamalien]

it's just another term hijacked by idiots. Every great movement is hijacked. Woke used to mean knowing the truth of this world, the real truth, the conspiracies, the master / slave dynamic that still rules us to this day, the fallacy of government, police, military, the higher self, the true nature of this world.

Now it means regurgitating leftist talking points and having ZERO critical thinking ability. Basically, it means subscribing to what is currently the most popular or trendy opinion.

Spiritual awakening is an ENTIRELY different thing, and there is still much of this going on, too bad the word has been ruined.

[Grond21]

I can definitely relate. I see it all the time, and it seems to be from people who are terrified of getting called racist, even if they did nothing to deserve it. Or people who get off on grandstanding and virtue signaling, while they simultaneously intolerantly shut down anyone who disagrees with them

[Anonymous]

"Woke" is the acceptance that inequality does exist and that some people benefit from it. That by participating in it without doing anything to change it, you are complicit in it and thus partly to blame for it.

It's annoying because no one likes to be told they're doing something wrong, even if it's true.

[Twenty2]

People like to solve things, solving things make people happy. But the things that needs solving are very hard to solve so some weak people create problems which they think they are solving, those people are called woke. This senseless category of people will never put in any effort to do something productive with their time but will create problems for others and then bitch about it. Yes, it is very annoying.

[NarutoUzumaki007]

woke is called being out of touch with reality and on ground situation and being morally correct on paper and to show off to other and imply that you are above them. In reality woke people know shit and try to lecture others

[NarutoUzumaki007]

but the good thing is woke people can pretend all they want to be morally superior but deep inside they can never be happy in their life

[NarutoUzumaki007]

they indeed are sad creatures and I pity them

[Anonymous]

Being woke is the matrix red pill moment people experience when they finally see past the worlds bullshit. For example people finding out Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were blackmailing elite, Hollywood pedophiles was a woke Moment for a lot of people. BUT of course there’s going to be people who just deny everything forever clinging to the blue pill.

[BeMuse]

Watch and learn...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/y6rk1mYiOAw

[winterfox10]

"Woke" is a rather silly term for people who have their eyes open to discrimination and injustice in modern society.

[TadCurious]

Exactly as @Massageman said. I don't want to be told I'm committing the sin of "cultural appropriation" when I eat popcorn.

[Massageman]

- - or a taco, or a blintz, or gyros, or a knedlike, or a Chicago dog, or a New York pizza slice, or grog, or whatever - - - - - - -

[Massageman]

It's just idiotic, diminutive past tense, progressive slang for someone who "has awakened" to some BS social ideology. The are considered "woke" if they "understand" it.

[Danny_dan92]

It is a slang way of saying.


Educated, enlightened, aware

[OddBeMe]

I can relate in that I don’t know what “wokeness” is either. But what’s wrong with understanding white privilege?

[jett16]

Its just people shortning words

[Rangers]

It's delusion, stupidity, and emotions over facts.

[asshole_]

If you think it is, it will be to you

[GetTriggeredKid]

Liberals are so “woke”.

[Gwenhwyfar]

You’re not wrong