Woke

Woke gained popularity in the UK following the Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020. Woke is a catch-all description for modern collectivist ideologies that are internally inconsistent historically confused morally backward.

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. In AAVE awake is often. The co-optation of woke -- and other terms broadly associated with progressivism -- is part of a powerful and understated weaponization of meaning called semantic pejoration. From the M-W site.

Created by Keith Knight Marshall Todd. Also get your fucking head out of the fucking. What does woke mean.

Ron DeSantis this year empowers citizens to go after woke indoctrination. A 1943 article in The Atlantic quoted a black United Mine. Woke definition a simple past tense of wake1.

Widely considered a White liberal thought leader Bill Maher frequently weaponizes the term woke to discount ridicule or otherwise belittle an issue or idea related to. Tue 21 Jan 2020 0200 EST. L ike politically correct before it the word woke has come to connote the opposite of what it means.

But stay woke and woke became part of a wider discussion in 2014 immediately. Figurative woke being socially and politically awake or awarestarts in emerging in Black English at least by the 1940s. Being woke means to be paying the fuck attention to whats going on because if you dont youll get fucked over and left behind.

A past tense of wake1. Woke is a slang term that is easing into the mainstream from some varieties of a dialect called African American Vernacular English sometimes called AAVE. Keef is an African-American cartoonist on the verge of mainstream.

Slang Aware of the injustice of the social system in which one lives. With Lamorne Morris Blake Anderson T. Woke 2 wōk adj.

Merriam-Webster says woke is a slang term that is going mainstream. The phenomenon of being woke is a. It is the 5th-generation inbred cousin of.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary woke is. After the statue of 17th century slave trader Edward Colston was pulled down in Bristol. Woke 1 wōk v.

We amplify the voices of demonstrators and streamers from the ground in protests across the USA. The Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Stop WOKE Act proposed by Gov. Technically going by the Merriam-Webster.

Adjective aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues especially issues of racial and social justice. Inspired by the life and work of artist Keith Knight comedy series WOKE takes an absurdly irreverent look at identity and culture as it follows Keef an African-American cartoonist finally. Used with words like snowflake somebody who is woke is aware and speaks up about social issues.

See Usage Note at wake1.

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