How to pronounce“woke”in English
adjparty in the Civil War to the dominant party in the US establishment all the
woke capitalists are now at the very top and now the same repositioning is happening where if you're so woke why are you rich you get it right like you
know if you're so smart why aren't you rich is the normal kind of thing right if you're so woke if you're so holy why is like for example the BLM founder why
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Definitions of “woke”
Awake: conscious and not asleep.
Alert, aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially of racial and other social justice issues.
“Waking up is a damn sight harder than going to sleep, but we’ll stay woke up longer.”
A person with progressive views or attitudes.
“Not to beat a dead horse, but it would appear that the wokes are in an abusive relationship with the speech policemen, given that some of their favored terms are being abruptly disallowed (like trigger warning or “preferred” pronouns).”
A progressive ideology, in particular with regards to social justice.
“Tim Bale, a professor of politics at Queen Mary University in London, said the war on woke kicked off as a counter to the “silent revolution” of liberal and progressive attitudes during the economic boom of the decades up to 2008.”