What is "woke" anyway?

[normalice]

It seems like it's only the right who cares about the word but they can't come up with a definition for it. A little besides the point but I suspect the reason is because any useful definition of woke must 1) be accurate enough that the left, other than paid false flag Kremlin trolls, will defend it and 2) must be derogatory enough that it will get a loud cacophony of guffaws from the red hats. But the overlap between these two is heretofore undiscovered, if there even is one..

So, how do you define it? Can you come up with a definition that meets both of these criteria?

Updates

+1 y

A lot of people forgetting about the (1) st criteria. It only works if liberals agree to own the definition. The responses so far might work to draw gales of stupid laughter at a Trump rally but if you confronted a liberal with it they'd just say they are also against what you include in your definition of woke but it has nothing to do with their definition of woke, which they are not against.

[Meropatrick]

Woke is idiology. Its a new religion that refuses anything traditional. They worship sexual freedom, drugs, golbalisim, anti nationalisim, family destruction, child brainwashing. they are against anything that makes you a human and pro anything that makes you a cattle animal. A sheep. they want unstable mothers, and spineless fathers. They destroy anything that makes you a man or a woman. So you no longer have any identity. They fracture you and divide you from within. We no longer have good movies, art, minds or leaders because of wokeness.

[DarkLegacy]

Im pleased with your answer especially the bit about refusing anything traditional. Here in the UK they seem to be trying to ban anything that existed before they were born.

[normalice]

That doesn't pass (1), sorry.

[NaultD]

It's just now a dogwhistle for every slur. You guys have freedom of speech you aren't getting sent to the gulag here just say it. every dentist might get rich off you guys but that's a you problem.

[purplepoppy]

It's quite easy to explain. Imagine you want to hurl racist abuse at someone as is your god given constitutional right. However instead of respecting your free speech someone tells you your behaviour isn't very nice and you should stop. Well these terrible people are woke.

[normalice]

That's actually not bad. I think if you said it fast enough right wingers would think you were laughing with them rather than at them. And it seems agreeable enough that the left would probably also find nothing they disagree with in particular. Nice.

[exitseven]

@purplepoppy Yes, and if you don't stop you will be cancelled.

[normalice]

@exitseven that's only a right wing thing anymore ("go woke go broke"). The left doesn't really engage in that unless it is one of their own.

[exitseven]

@normalice you are kidding, right?

[normalice]

@exitseven pretending to be taken off guard by matters of fact again, eh?

[Sasahara]

One definition of the word woke is the past tense of wake. As in I woke up this morning. But perhaps you will disagree with any Democrats who use the word that way because its not degoratory. Perhaps any leftist who use the word that way is a Kremlin troll as you put it.

[Sargentcaptain]

Woke is applying Marxist horseshit ideology onto things like race, gender, sexuality. It seeks a victim and an oppressor class along those lines.

[normalice]

You also failed to include (1). As someone of the left who considers myself woke, I am also against the things you listed.

[Sargentcaptain]

It's cute that you think so, but that's what the real definition of it is. Anything else is too broad or is incomplete.

[normalice]

Okay but liberals would never agree to own that so..

[DarkLegacy]

Woke is about banning anything that existed before thy were born by claiming that it is racist, sexist etc. It is about making fashion statements by claiming they are doing it to speak out against racism, sexism, homophobia etc.

[normalice]

That fails to meet the criteria of (1), sorry.

[sawno]

Woke is usually used as a way to describe the results of intersectionality. Stuff like the LGBT agenda, racial thinking, etc.

[sawno]

And yes as others are saying its basically the whole forced upon us political line, so globalism and climate change kind of fits to.

[sawno]

So if you want to know what woke is look at the DIE money, woke is basically an implementation of ESG, DIE, etc.

[normalice]

That doesn't fit the criteria explained in (1). Not sure it would pass (2) either, in fact..

[Anonymous]

What is “White supremacist cis-heteronormativity? Why is it that only the Left cares about it?

Because they are morons. 🙄🖕

[normalice]

This failed to meet the first criteria, sorry.

[exitseven]

It is the opposite of common sense.

[normalice]

This failed to meet the (1) criteria, sorry.