Woke (/ˈwoʊk/ WOHK) is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) meaning "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination".[1][2] Beginning in the 2010s, it came to encompass a broader awareness of social inequalities such as sexism, and has also been used as shorthand for American Left ideas involving identity politics and social justice, such as the notion of white privilege and slavery reparations for African Americans.[3][4][5]
As is common among the right, people refuse to comprehend the language or engage with it in good faith in an attempt to sabotage progressive dialogue and poison the well of discourse by inverting the narrative (see some of the dead comments in this thread.)
But the odd thing is how many people claim not to know what "woke" means who also seem to know exactly what "anti-woke" means. How can you be against something without a definition?
[3] Morgan, Marcyliena (2020). "'We Don't Play': Black Women's Linguistic Authority Across Race, Class, and Gender". In Alim, H. Samy; Reyes, Angela; Kroskrity, Paul V. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race. Oxford University Press. pp. 276–277.
But the odd thing is how many people claim not to know what "woke" means who also seem to know exactly what "anti-woke" means. How can you be against something without a definition?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke
[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03043754221126279
[2] https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-education-minister-je...
[3] Morgan, Marcyliena (2020). "'We Don't Play': Black Women's Linguistic Authority Across Race, Class, and Gender". In Alim, H. Samy; Reyes, Angela; Kroskrity, Paul V. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race. Oxford University Press. pp. 276–277.
[4] https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-hist...
[5] https://theconversation.com/where-woke-came-from-and-why-mar...