Trying to see if we’re all on the same page. Thanks
It means to not be unconcious. To be awake and aware of reality. To take many valid frames and experiences into concideration. To be woke is a compliment about your ability to think holistically.
Being woke plays on the idea that most people are asleep. This is true in the sense that we live inside a machine that destroys the foundation of life on earth. We could also say that we live in a matrix and have to wake up from the simulation/dream.
Being asleep can also be seen as sufficiently consenting to the matrix, because you are either with the matrix or against it. Being silent is to be with it.
To me woke is a term that right wing, sexist, miserable, shitty people use.
Hey now, don’t forget about the racists! It was adopted as a pejorative by the racist far-right because it “sounds” black.
Technically, it IS black. That’s where the term started.
Very true. But the fact that it sounds black allows it to be used to efficiently encode white supremacy with plausible deniability. It’s probably why it’s still used by racist ghouls more than a decade after it was regularly used in the traditional sense. Like, Elon Musk starts ranting about the “woke mind virus” about six years after anyone was regularly using the term. And it really only returned to common usage for a few months.
Oh man,good point.
Eddited.
It didn’t use to be. Lead Belly was an early user of the word.
Aware of social injustices and a desire for them to be removed.
Woke is not caring about how someone who uses the handicap bathroom stall.
Trans people, disabled people, elderly people. If you stand and watch someone go in and out of the handi-cap bathroom, and think that them existing is not fair to you… you’re anti-woke.
Actual meaning? Being “awakened” to the incompleteness of civil rights, aware of the long and difficult social justice work that needs to happen to make oppressed peoples equal, and willing to learn and act in response to that knowledge; particularly as it pertains to the position of Black people in the United States, but generalized more broadly to oppressed peoples outside that group.
But today? It’s been co-opted by the Worst People You Know to mean “anything not regressively conservative,” and synonymous with “socialist” (the actual definition of which they also don’t care about). It is often a red flag that the person you’re talking to holds an extremely propagandized view of modern life; and at best thinks that civil rights is done, and at worst thinks that people of color are subhuman.
Depends on the context: When used positively it means being aware of social injustice or having empathy for your out group.
When used negatively it means anything/anyone they don’t like, and they mostly don’t like people who are a different color skin, gender, ablement, or sexual orientation to themselves.
As an American, the acknowledgement that we live in a state that was started by slavers on land that was stolen from indigenous people.
People joining movements without shred of struggle to support them and after they had already succeeded
For me woke people are privileged loud members of communities that are missing basic principles those communities stand for, and you can find them absolutely everywhere in every grouping ever, nationality based grouping, religious based grouping, ideology based grouping, i see all those as “woke” in my view
Exactly what “woke” groups do you consider “already succeeded”…?
There’s no woke groups, there’s only woke individuals in groups
Woke individual leftists that vote fascists into power due to believing electoralism can never fail making their actions valid, going against empowering the people principles leftists stand for
Woke individual LGBTQ members that scrutinize any work not favoring their agenda with belief it’s done to normalize it making their actions valid, going against principles of inclusivity the movements stands for
Woke individual religious members that advocate for enforcing their beliefs and traditions on others or turning blind eye to violence from their members with the idea that spreading the belief is the right thing, going against the aspect of free will and choice advocated by the religions
Woke individual nationalists that target minorities in their own country as not fitting the right identity or image the country stands for for the sake of establishing unity, going against national pride with all it’s diversity of culture that “nationalism” stands for(i have to put this one in quotes as the word’s meaning has been completely ruined from this by now)
Woke individual competitors that in pursuit of being the best at an activity decide to result to cheating or sabotaging other competitors for the sake of breaking records and making the competitive scene more competitive, going against the fairness principles that those activities and competitors in it stood for
This is how i see the word woke, nothing to do with any group, any title, any identity, i see it as individuals who violate the principles they claim to stand for, and it always gets done with the belief it’s right, the “woke” in my definition are people i have to actively disassociate from their identities no matter how hard they try to make the two inseparable
Well, seeing as it kinda comes from the “waking up” of those who thought we didn’t have any problems just because they never experienced them personally. Hence them now being woke to ths problems they had been sleeping on.
When someone wants a group of people to not like something without giving them a reason to, they label it “woke”, usually for political reasons.
Anything conservatives are told to hate.
It’s just a new flavor of an old shit sandwich, In my lifetime:
Bleeding heart
PC thug
SJW
Woke mob
It’s all the same bullshit class warfare in reality.
It’s a bogus term invented by the right-winger conservatives as a general label for everything they can’t comprehend with their tiny brains.
Currently it’s a largely meaningless buzword used exclusively by a hate group to smear something as bad.
It’s my barometer of “should I take this person seriously”. If they use the term it tells me they’re a bit too far in the deep end.
It means nothing. It is a conversention ender to shut down arguments.
“Woke” is the latest term used by American Republican strategists to paint the left as self-righteous, superficial and condescending. It’s taken over for “Social Justice Warrior”
The word has existed in American politics since the 1930s.
It is only recently that it is being used by Republicans as a negative term.
