We may be talking about different things, due to how ambiguos the word "woke" has become.
I am well aware of the dictionary definition "aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues," but these days, at least where I am, the word is used in a pejorative sense, often by the right, without a clear definition, e.g., when someone like Ron DeSantis talks about the "woke mind virus."
I hear people talk about a nebulous "wokeism" or "woke movement."
Andreas Lindholm
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2025-03-01 19:33:16 UTC
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