I laugh about how the people calling everything “woke” are so far off from what “woke” originally meant. It’s hard to even take it seriously when I hear someone complaining about because I know they’re just flailing to cast something they don’t like in a negative light that they can’t reasonably justify within the boundaries of common decency. So they now use “woke” as this vague evil boogeyman to demonize social progress they want to stifle, or claim victimhood over some perceived slight against whichever established powerful demographic who have been asked to just let everyone else get their fair share of or fair shot at as well, but see it as a zero-sum game and they fear their lion’s share of the spoils will be threatened.
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What comes to mind when I hear the word "woke" depends on the person who uses the term. For the most part, whenever I hear a Black person (or non-White person) use the term, I think of its main definition as intended, which is "to be aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)." Based on my experiences as a Black person, I've always known "woke" to have that meaning. However, when White people or otherwise people that call themselves "conservatives" or Republican voters use the term "woke," I think of it as a synonym for "political correctness," which is defined as "a term used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society." Thus, for people that refer to themselves as "conservatives," practically anything that caters to non-White people or minority groups in general, especially in response to controversy regarding such groups, is likely to be "woke" in a negative way. For example, if Black people believe that police unjustly kill unarmed Black suspects at higher rates, any bill that addresses is likely to be labeled as "woke," or if gay people believe that gays aren't represented well on TV shows and writers put more gay people in their shows to address the issue, the writers would also be accused of being "woke." This is because, much like the meaning of political correctness, addressing these issues is automatically perceived as avoiding offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society. However, my take is this: instead of determining whether or not something is "woke" in that regard, try determining whether or not it is based on truth or falsehood or whether or not such a "woke" action actually causes more harm or good to society. Whether or not something is "woke" is irrelevant to the bigger picture.
Problem is, THEY AREN'T aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues!!
Besides, "woke" is sort of a verb! "What's the first thing you did today?" "I woke up."
@FunkyMonkee:
"Problem is, THEY AREN'T aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues!!"
Why do you think this?
"Besides, "woke" is sort of a verb! "What's the first thing you did today?" "I woke up."
Sure, but regarding politics, of course it is used in a different context.
You've never listened to them? THEY'RE INSANE!!
@FunkyMonkee: Explain please.
I went with LGBT, meaning that they go along with the idea that a man can actually be a woman and should be treated as such in things like female beauty pageants and sports. I have no problem with normal LGBT people.
They also believe in confusing children about gender and pushing notions of non-binary and that gender is a choice. Also, that the mutilation and sterilization of children is "gender affirmation".
Also virtue signaling.
Also political correctness and making it their raison d'etre to be offended and outraged over something all the time. Huckleberry Finn, non-PC humor, pronouns, etc.
White people buying into the notion of white privilege and white guilt.
Women using sexism as a weapon. I don't mean actual sexual harassment. I'm talking about crazy shit like lightly touching a woman between the shoulder blades as a traditionally polite way of signaling her to enter a door before you; or a couple of guys sitting at a bar and talking about how hot the girls at the other end are; or walking up to a girl and saying "Hello"; or a superior in a business being accused of being too bossy to women; or then notion that appreciation of the female form is objectification.
These kinds of things fall under the heading of "woke". I simply call it insanity.
Great Awakenings are period of religious revival in American Christian history. The first Great Awakening was from 1730-1755 and lead to the American Revolution a decade later in 1765. Great Awakenings are when the people become aware of the evil that oppresses them, they return to God, and then cast off tyranny that oppresses them. We are currently in the middle of a Great Awakening in American history. To mock good, evil perverts the word awakening to "woke". Evil always attempts to mock God and his people. Woke are evil. Woke are the anti-God satanic communists that want to strip humanity of their God given rights to freedom and install a communist dictatorship and turn humanity into slaves. Q spreads awareness of what is currently happening in our world and encourages people to think logically and do their own research to discover truth on their own. For we all must see the truth and understand it to awaken. Anons are the midnight riders that spread the truth like Paul Revere to wake everyone up from their slumber... As is true to evil, they must mock it, so they fashioned a ridiculous narrative called QAnon just like they did with woke to distract people from the truth. For evil up is down, left is right, people that confront homosexuality are homophobes, fascists are antifascist (ANTIFA), and so on. All language is perverted by evil communists. You know the Berlin Wall was really called the “Antifaschistischer Schutzwall,” or the “anti-fascist protection barrier” because it was built by ANTIFA who are otherwise known as the Stasi who were originally recruited from the Nazi Gestapo. As is with evil, that's why ANTIFA calls everyone Nazis, because they are the real Nazis. This is why ANTIFA backs the Democrat party that finances Nazis in Ukraine. Remember everything is opposite to foster chaos when it comes to evil. Woke is pure evil. Now you know.
@costlyivy www.history.com/.../great-awakening
"Woke" is meant to be a mocking of "The Great Awakening". It's meant to be opposite to act as a distraction and create chaos... So if The Great Awakening is a revival of faith in God and encourages the notions of nationalism and individual rights, then "Woke" is an attempt to destroy faith in God and encouraging the notions of globalism and communism by taking away individual rights. It's pretty basic, where did you get confused? We're talking about Good vs Evil here lady...
It's a new catch-all word for "it used to be better the old way" (oh, the deliciousness of this irony!).
The same people who use the word would e. g. like to be able to use slurs like they could in the past, but without consequences. The new world, with accountability for past, scares them. They understood the old one, the new one is alien to them, they don't like it or understand the rules which govern it.
I remember 25-ish years ago in my country we heard about Swedish people not resorting to any physical violence to rear children and there were maaany people who said things like "this is frenzy/folly" and "but how are you to discipline children if not by hitting them?" or "I was beaten black and blue and I love my parents". Today when someone voices the same sentiments they are looked down upon, like smelly relics of a past system which has no place in the present. They, on the other hand, could - not unlike GoP - name everyone who is not stuck in that outdated worldview "woke".
nice strawmanning and cherrypicking you got there
News to me! I never heard it used that way! If they want it the way it was, why are they destroying everything old in sight?
Tbh I get why “people finding everything offensive” is a point of contention for everyone, even as a lefty.
I’ve been on twitter, I’ve seen how twitter and Reddit lefties do, I get it.
but on the other hand…? Bro conservatives literally react like SJWs when something they don’t like exists.
The difference is : it’s almost normal for them to threaten or actuate violence when they get involved.
The four mass shooters in the history of masss shootings according to conservatives is “trans terrorists trying to kill Christians” and not trans people who embraced their inner Elliot Rodger…..
It’s just because we get tired of it being rammed on us all. If you wanna me gay go live your life. But stop acting like you’re special. Stop acting like we all have to be gay. Stop acting like we all have to agree.
Plenty of Christian’s who disagree with let’s say… alternative lifestyles who just live their lives and leave them alone. They leave the LGBT people alone and honestly many leave them alone.
If you attack the most fringe of the LGBT community some act as if you attacked them all. Which makes them look bad and creates a straw man all gay people act this way. When they don’t.
If someone doesn’t agree with the lifestyle and doesn’t want to wear a rainbow flag they’re a bigot.
Is there examples of bad Christian’s? Yes. But they make the straw man argument. Just like there bad LGBT crazies who want to force their lifestyle on everyone.
I think the word has become meaningless because people define it differently. (same for "socialism")
Its a word I won't use, and if anyone does, I ask what THEY mean by it.
In normal use these days it means everything from being aware of the various systematic disparities, to wealthy white guys infantalizing minorities.
Woke is a term used to describe people who have come to a false sense of enlightenment.
They believe the change they want to see in the world will lead to more compassion and inclusivity, but really they're just morons, and their ideas will lead to nothing but destruction, and have the exact opposite effect that they intended
it's a meaningless umbrella term that people use to lable people holding opinions that they don't agree with. it has different meanings accodring to who uses it but since these meanings can vary so much that they can mean the exact opposite, i declare it as meaningless.
"don't call me a she!! I will cry and make a tiktok video for everyone to cancel you!! because I am now a THEY THEM!! CALL ME THEY THEM!! DONT YOU SEE MY PRONOUN STICKERS!!! waaaaa waaa 😭😭😭😭"
that's the only thing that comes to mind all those pathetic crying videos of some delusional that now wants to be multiple people and crying because someone addressed them by their real sex. FUCKING mental people so cringe. the "woke"
Most definitions of woke sound like it's a good thing that most people want, regardless of their political beliefs. So I think GOP lawmakers don't really know what the word means and are mad at something and don't know why, so they use woke as something that is bad.
I voted for virtue signaling but could of easily for people finding everything offensive.
Woke people are like the worst attention whores... and they seek attention by thinking they're saying the right things. Reminds me of a 1980's bible thumper... except, their religion is non-theistic and really gay. I feel like they all have a woman named Karen as a parent.
Overly sensitive people who are upset that people call them out for being rude, so they made a word up to make them feel less sad that people think they suck
Trouble makers! They always want to change everything and cancel what THEY believe fits their agenda. Who do they think they are?
I think of:
-people who are perpetually offended by everything and everyone on the face of the Planet.
-people who see themselves as intellectually superior to everyone else.
- people who are confused about gender
-homosexuals who are obsessed with letting everyone know they are gay.
- people who want to shove their sexual perversions down everyone else's throat (no pun intended).
It is one of those terms that is used in different ways by different people, so I pretty much ignore the word itself and look for the context of the usage by the people using it. That technique has unfortunately become more and more needed when people discuss political issues, otherwise people risk completely talking past each other.
A catchphrase for internet trolls.
That doesn't even make any sense. Fuck you're annoying
Bored as people obsessed with politics who find anything to get mad with the opposite party over
To me it's finding something offensive when it causes no actual offense. Basically: being hypersensitive for no apparent reason. For example, like when someone thought a PB&J sandwich was somehow racist.
It’s just a derogatory term republicans use when something they say or do that is offensive is called out as offensive. It’s a crude defense mechanism for them.
i think about a screaming lesbian with blue hair lol
It is like this.
fake outrage surrounding hypocrisy and double standards
Bigoted trump supporting republicans call anything that challenges them woke. Mind you I am republican and hate trump and I'll always oppose his brown shirt movement.
None of those. I just think woke as in, "I woke up from an eight hour sleep" lol.
Someone with amphetamine or caffeine overdose
It pisses me off, damn alarm! I woke this morning to it like I do everyday.🤔😒
The proud family reboot was horrible but I think of the words retarded.
People thinking they're important and must be listened too.
Republicans favorite word when it goes against their narrative
Ignorance.
That's what that word become now. A weapon to attack anyone who doesn't fit a very rigid old fashioned view.
woke is a colloquial term for neo marxism , the application of karl marx's theory of class warfare to things that are not classes, such as race
Obese hermaphroditic introverted orcs mad at the world
Getting out of bed. That's what you do after you wake up.
Libtards crying about the word "woke."
BROKE.
Woke = fucking IDIOTS!!!
Critical race/gender theory.
Oh oh! This sh! t again!
Past tense of wake.
Willful ignorance.
Feminists being angry about a aloha shirt.
Why?
Snowflake idiots.
New age spirituality
Victim playing
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