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Does anyone else know what Woke means?

If someone says they are woke they are not woke. But who ever they said that to is not woke either. Someone who says they are are not, they are pretending. They may be trying to be woke but they are not. Woke is something spiritual not political. The most woke people in history (one of which you might no think of as woke) are Siddarth aka Buddha, Jesus Christ, Gondi, and Marry Magdoline.

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Torsten · 36-40, M

woke to me is really things like Forced Diversity, race swaps (in Hollywood), Gender identity politics and all that type of stuff.
Basically forcing that type of shit on others

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Torsten · 36-40, M

@LeopoldBloom yeah and yet you still cant figure out where i am and seemingly are obsessed with it.
Youre aware your politics dont revolve around the world yet you constantly speak to me like they do and that i am apart of it.
I call bullshit. You and certain other Americans just have this mind set that the world revolves around America, when in reality its so far from the truth.
Your country is basically a warning to other countries of what not to do, and thats it really.

NativePortlander1970

@Torsten Well said

Torsten · 36-40, M

@NativePortlander1970 thank you

Oster1 · M

Woke is a more modern term, for a DAMNED BRAIN DEAD FOOL!!!

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Oster1 · M

@CestManan Wrong! Get a clue and understand my reply! 🙄🤔

Oster1 · M

@CestManan I wish, I would have read through this thread now!

CestManan · 46-50, F

@Oster1 no big deal. This place is all in good fun

bijouxbroussard · F

It’s old AA slang, basically meant to be aware of our struggle and recognize the situation. If you [b]ever[/b] heard someone white described as "woke" it basically meant they were trusted. I also grew up during the Civil Rights Movement and remember hearing our older people say "Stay Woke !" It wasn’t until this century that the mainstream community co-opted the term and redefined it as something ugly.

LordShadowfire · M

@bijouxbroussard Don't they always, though?

OogieBoogie · F

@bijouxbroussard well said.

FrogManSometimesLooksBothWays · M

I woke up this morning. Woke is the past tense of the verb to wake. When people say they are woke, that is incorrect grammar. People should say, "I woke or I wakened."

pride49 · 31-35, M

@FrogManSometimesLooksBothWays or I have awakened. To a dramatic entrance

BlueVeins · 22-25

[quote]aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)[/quote]

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NativePortlander1970

@Greyjedi Prove me wrong then, NOT EVERYTHING IS RACIST, fucking moron.

Greyjedi · M

@NativePortlander1970 I haven’t said really anything about racism. You need anger management.

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SW-User

It's something the MAGAts are upset about... which means it doesn't concern me in the least.

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Slade · 56-60, M

@SW-User you started right out with elitism. It's my job to illustrate how wrong you are

SW-User

@Slade

Job? I think it's your weird obsession in life to do whatever it is you believe you're doing.
Anyway, carry on - - let's see what you come up with next.

Slade · 56-60, M

@SW-User first paragraph managed to say absolutely nothing. Congratulations

LeopoldBloom · M

I think the definition provided by Ryan Johnson, one of Ron DeSantis' attorneys, would be a good one, since DeSantis based his entire campaign on "anti-woke." He said "[b]it would be the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them[/b]." I would agree with this.

LordShadowfire · M

@LeopoldBloom That's pretty close to the dictionary definition, which I keep on my clipboard because people keep messing it up.

woke
adjective
[i]ˈwōk[/i]
woker; wokest

[i]chiefly US slang[/i]
1
a
: aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)
b
: reflecting the attitudes of woke people
woke values/language
2
disapproving : politically liberal or progressive (as in matters of racial and social justice) especially in a way that is considered unreasonable or extreme

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woke

LeopoldBloom · M

@LordShadowfire Exactly. It's become a pejorative because conservatives don't believe that systemic inequities exist or that they need to be addressed, so anyone who thinks they do is either a "groomer" who delights in forcing children to change their gender, or is a racist who thinks white kindergartners should be punished to atone for slavery.

Here's a conservative explaining what "woke" is.

[media=https://youtu.be/0hsg5mz18ew]

Iwantout · 26-30, M

It means they're an idiot

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Iwantout · 26-30, M

@Ynotisay I agree with you we've never been more divided that's why I don't like this stuff and yes you're correct I was mainly referring to younger people as it's rare to see an older person call themselves that

LordShadowfire · M

@Iwantout I feel like you didn't understand what @Ynotisay said, and are reading what you want to read.

Iwantout · 26-30, M

@LordShadowfire it is possible I miss read I need my glasses for a long texts

Peaceandnamaste · 26-30, F

Right wingers seem to hate spirituality and are stuck in religious dogma so of course they would hate the word "woke".

Slade · 56-60, M

OogieBoogie · F

As far as i know it used to mean 'aware'. It was a good thing.

But ....language changes.
Now it seems an insultive term. A term used for pedantic nitpicking .
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TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 41-45, MVIP

Am I Woke. 🤔

chrisCA · M

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout Just like some right wingers.

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 41-45, MVIP

@chrisCA oooooooh burn….

MsSwan

Woke, woke and woke

Roundandroundwego · 61-69

Fighting our enlightenment, stopping the truth from changing America, is the best weapon ever against the left! Life itself is facing off against it. And I would bet on ignorance. Woke is the enemy.

Ynotisay · M

Can't stand the word. It's all about putting people in boxes. Either for or against. It's intended to divide.

SW-User

Past tense of wake

LordShadowfire · M

That's one definition. A more recent one, as of the '60s, I'm told, is being aware of the struggles of a particular ethnic group to which you do not personally belong.

Racist right wingers think that's stupid.

NativePortlander1970

It's virtue signalling bullshit.

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