Woke

[gavroche]

I see this word every where and have no idea what it means. Could someone explain its meaning to me ? Is it a verb, is it an adjective, is it an adverb, is it a noun?

 

[ColinJ]

Wikipedia article on 'Woke'.

 

[vickster]

Adjective

(or a past participle in its other form)

 

[FishFright]

I see this word every where and have no idea what it means. Could someone explain its meaning to me ? Is it a verb, is it an adjective, is it an adverb, is it a noun?

If you are called woke it means you are a much better person than the person who is calling you woke.

 

[Sterlo]

Sadly, it also seems to be used as an insult to say somebody is being woke. It should be a good thing, if everyone was woke, the world would be a better place.

 

[gavroche]

It think it is a word I am very unlikely to ever use as it sounds too strange to me so I shall pass on that one as it will never be part of my vocabulary.

 

[Electric_Andy]

It's to describe someone who has woken up or become awake to the various prejudices and x-isms of the world today. Which used to be a good thing but now it's used to describe someone who has either taken it to the extreme or uses wokism as a cloak to make them seem "rad" when they're actually not. It's not a word I'd ever use.

 

[Tenkaykev]

 

[wafter]

Yeah, basically a once-legit term coined I believe in post-slavery black America to describe being awake to bigotry and prejudices in society.

Now hijacked by the right as a perjoritive catch-all for anything allegedly left-leaning they don't like and wish to vilify.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Could someone explain its meaning to me ?

Easy!

 

[Drago]

It's the yellow bit on the inside of an egg.

 

[Andy in Germany]

It is unfortunately a lot like the word "Christian" or "Gentleman" in that it seems to have a lot of meanings to a lot of people.

The most consistent meaning I've come across is that it was a short, slang term roughly meaning that someone adheres to the premise of Critical Theory, in which case although I'm certainly not right wing in my politics, I'm also certainly not "woke".

Ironically this means people from one extreme automatically assume I'm in the other.

 

[gavroche]

I think it is a horrible word which I will never use.

 

[vickster]

It would be pretty bad if you weren't able to say 'I woke up this morning' though... (I suppose you could go with the good old modern I awakened...)

 

[fossyant]

I thought you said 'Broke' - something all keen cyclists are !