The sense of entitlement of woke people is a stunning lack of grace.

@helenS I completely agree

@helenS I disagree. One of the characteristics of both “wokeness” and “political correctness” is intolerance. Surely that is something to be opposed whatever one’s own political views.

@helenS Helen
you’re a very wise person

@helenS Woke means "politically correct".

@MartinII With all due respect – we do not have to "tolerate" racism. And it is exactly racism which "wokeness" is opposed to.

@helenS These are just words. In any given instance their intended, specific meanings can only be defined by the person using them at the time. (If then 😆)

@helenS Wokeism is political correctness on steroids.

@SamInAZ Something can be simultaneously 'correct' both politically and otherwise. When things are only correct in a political sense they can also be quite 'wrong' societally.

@sree251 You are defining a concept nearly 3 centuries old with a term of the 21st century?

@helenS That’s not how the term is used in the UK. It covers all sorts of fashionable nostrums, some uncontroversial, some highly controversial. Maybe that’s not its original meaning, I don’t know. And as I say, those who are “woke” believe that their opponents should be “cancelled”. Probably it has been “weaponised”, and quite right too. Coin a different term for it if you wish.

@MartinII The only people I know of who use the expression "woke" are right-wingers. Never heard anyone describe him/herself as being "woke".

@helenS Well that’s certainly not true in the UK. There’s nothing right-wing about being opposed to the antics of Extinction Rebellion, or opposing the claims of males who “identify” as females to be treated in all respects as if they were women - both, the latter especially, being key tenets of the woke agenda. In my more pessimistic moments I wonder if the Conservative Party isn’t more woke than the Labour Party. Certainly the Labour leader has made it clear by his pronouncements on various issues that he doesn’t subscribe to the woke agenda.

Then substitute tyrant, communist, Marxist, or fascist for Woke. They all work the same way. More or less. @helenS