How to pronounce“woke”in English
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Definitions of “woke”
Awake: conscious and not asleep.
Alert, aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially of racial and other social justice issues.
“Waking up is a damn sight harder than going to sleep, but we’ll stay woke up longer.”
A person with progressive views or attitudes.
“Not to beat a dead horse, but it would appear that the wokes are in an abusive relationship with the speech policemen, given that some of their favored terms are being abruptly disallowed (like trigger warning or “preferred” pronouns).”
A progressive ideology, in particular with regards to social justice.
“Tim Bale, a professor of politics at Queen Mary University in London, said the war on woke kicked off as a counter to the “silent revolution” of liberal and progressive attitudes during the economic boom of the decades up to 2008.”