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Helping people is woke.
Helping people who aren't me is woke.
There again. What's wrong with being woke?
Woke. Look up the definition. It means being aware, awake, tuned in to reality.
That can be unappealing to many people. Mostly ignorant, lazy, arrogant, selfish people who haven't had the need to consider the existence of well-being of any other person but themselves and MAYBE their direct family in their entire lives.
Hope that clears things up!
Right, but that's not the general social understanding of what the word means. Trying to save "woke" from the cultural connotations it gained after becoming a word known to the mainstream is a lost cause.
That's EXACTLY what the general understanding is. You just need to think about it for a few seconds.
Some people just don't want to or even have the ability to think and just parrot what their peers say, or they're just bigoted pieces of shit and this lets them get away with it.
Anyone complaining about "woke" is a bigot. Call them out.
You are misunderstanding me.
Sure, perhaps that is definition used by those who adopt the term.
The problem is that the culture outside this small group has agreed that the term refers to people who are insufferable and holier-than-thou.
I know people who care about these sorts of things. They talk about social inequality. They vote for politicians who want to reform the system. They work in nonprofits to make the world a better place. They attend conferences to learn about the newest discoveries in intersectional studies.
None of them call themselves "woke", or use the word at all. Why? Well because the word and its cultural associations are cringy. They want to be seen as sensible, reasonable people who have realistic solutions to real problems - using the word "woke" would undermine this goal. It doesn't matter what the actual, literal definition of the word is - simply using it would undermine their credibility, since it would indicate a lack of social acuity. It's like someone using the term "retarded" to refer to someone with a developmental disability. Even if they use the word in a completely kind and clinically appropriate way, their general credibility is undermined because polite society has determined that it is an inappropriate word to use.
I feel like there are some seriously stupid people here who cannot understand sarcasm.
It's DEI or something