Woke

Used with words like snowflake somebody who is woke is aware and speaks up about social issues. In AAVE awake is often.

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. A past tense of wake1. After the statue of 17th century slave trader Edward Colston was pulled down in. Adjective aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues especially issues of racial and social justice.

Tue 21 Jan 2020 0200 EST. According to the Oxford English Dictionary. Woke definition a simple past tense of wake1.

With Lamorne Morris Blake Anderson T. Woke gained popularity in the UK following the Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020. Technically going by the Merriam-Webster.

But stay woke and woke became part of a wider discussion in 2014 immediately. CBS Mornings co-host Tony. Slang Aware of the injustice of the social system in which one lives.

Woke 1 wōk v. It is the 5th-generation inbred cousin of. The Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Stop WOKE Act proposed by Gov.

Spiritual and intellectual enlightenment like waking up from a deep sleep and seeing things clearly for the first time. Woke is a catch-all description for modern collectivist ideologies that are internally inconsistent historically confused morally backward. 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.

The phenomenon of being woke is a. 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. From the M-W site.

L ike politically correct before it the word woke has come to connote the opposite of what it means. Woke 2 wōk adj. Ron DeSantis this year empowers citizens to go after woke indoctrination.

Created by Keith Knight Marshall Todd. The word woke has become a controversial buzzword dividing the country on issues from critical race theory to gender-neutral bathrooms. See Usage Note at wake1.

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. About engage contact rules appeal DMCA. What does woke mean.

Merriam-Webster says woke is a slang term that is going mainstream. Keef is an African-American cartoonist on the verge of. 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.

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