Why do some of you consider "Woke" as an insult? It just means being alert to injustice. THAT'S A GOOD THING lmao

@Torsten

Sure, in the same way that calling someone a feminist is an insult.
It's only insulting to those who are committed to defending the status quo.

@Pikachu a radical feminist is also a insult.
real feminists not so much but modern day ones are not real feminists, its a hate group

@Torsten

You've added "radical" there. You can add radical to anything to make it bad because extremes are problematic.

Radical woke, radical right, radical left, radical religious.
Don't change the subject.
What do you consider insulting about being alert to social injustice?

@Pikachu that is not what "woke" is though. Maybe it started out being that but like most things it gets twisted and warped into something very different.
If it did just mean alert to social injustices, i would not consider it a insult

@Torsten

That is what woke means.
That's all most woke people are persuing. But even something as basically respectful as suggesting that you call a person by the pronouns they would like is perceived by some as over the top, out of control wokeness! Gasp!

lol that's my point. If at a certain time you tried to suggest that it's actually not ok to own another human being as property there'd be people like you saying that this social justice thing is going too far.

@Torsten

Well that's what it means to be woke. It's just a sensitivity to inequality and social justice.
But people more close-minded than yourself have decided that any pushback against the status quo is woke and woke is bad.

@Pikachu that might be your definition of it but its just not correct or I should say its not how the majority of people see it

@Torsten

Definition of woke (Entry 1 of 2)
chiefly US slang
: aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)