What is woke?

[The Moose]

I feel so dang old asking this, but I see it everywhere and done get it.

What is woke? Because to me, it’s the action of transitioning from being asleep to being awake.

[Stay in Bed Instead]

How old fashioned of you.



I just wondered that too. Apparently in the context it is being used it means alert to injustice, typically racial.

[ambuletz]

Stay in Bed Instead said:

How old fashioned of you.



I just wondered that too. Apparently in the context it is being used it means alert to injustice, typically racial.

it pretty much means this. although it genearlly means having a greater knowledge or awareness of something than before. for the most part its someone who's become pretensious and a SJW (social justice warrior).

a person who has looked into the meat industry and decided to become vegan could be seen as woke. but only if they show off about it/seem greater than others.

[slopes]

From what i can understand, it means someone who has seen ‘the light’ in any particular situation. Vegans for example who then tell everyone else to ‘wake up and see the truth’. People who bang on about opening your third eye for another example

[itcaptainslow]

slopes said:

People who bang on about opening your third eye for another example

I’d take that to mean something else entirely...

[WolfAir]

Being awoken by the kids at 6am because for some strange reason they cant sleep late when its the holidays but when it school the little gremlins are snoring away...
I am woke.

[Blib]

It is the complete inability to see the mote in one's own eye.

HTH.

[GAjon]

Previously known as ‘Holier than thou’.

[Teddy Lop]

Being a word of African origin surely no well intentioned whitie is allowed to be woke as thats appropriation?

[NDA]

The Moose said:

I feel so dang old asking this, but I see it everywhere and done get it.

What is woke? Because to me, it’s the action of transitioning from being asleep to being awake.

It's a word only used by wkers. I wouldn't worry about it.

[thebraketester]

GAjon said:

Previously known as ‘Holier than thou’.

Followed by “sanctimonious prick”

[anonymous-user]

NDA said:

It's a word only used by wkers. I wouldn't worry about it.

See also: gammon

Idiotic millennial terminology.

[andy_s]

OK Boomers...

[67Dino]

Another word for Politically Correct, as in:

I am woke
You are politically correct
They are the liberal intellectual elite.

[Hub]

It is oversensitivity, and it is killing comedy!

[Eric Mc]

Shouldn't it be "woken"? (or does that belong in one of the grammar threads?)

[kambites]

Given that it's used in situations such as "stay woke" which means "stay aware", it should arguably be "awoken" rather than "woken". However it's American, so all bets are off gramatically anyway.

It's also hardly a "millennial" thing, it has its roots in the 60s. It's just a term, like so many others, that has over time been exported from American to the rest of the English speaking world.

Edited by kambites on Tuesday 24th December 08:52

[Spare tyre]

It’s a sperm from Woking

[Hungrymc]

andy_s said:

OK Boomers...

Very nicely done ..... haha

[uuf361]

Another one I don’t understand is ‘stan’ (I’m clearly old and no longer down with the kidz )