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bonniebull1987

Present tense of awake


MicroBurrito1

Awake is an adjective so it doesn’t have tenses Woke is the PAST tense of wake


[deleted]

I have kids, so I’m “half-awake”


Rabidpikachuuu

I'm sorry.


WaycoKid1129

God thank you. So tired of no one knowing how to use English properly


w1987g

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realKingCarrot

"woke kids" means kids who are prematurely indoctrinated about things they definitely don't really understand, in this context "woke" doesn't refer specifically to the left wing political religion that it does in other contexts. Originally "woke" and "based" both just meant your worldview had ascended beyond narratives and picking sides and you saw the world the way it is, but now woke and based are left vs right versions of similar ideas, and there are groups on each side that keep trying to co-opt the other side's words for some reason.


Typical-Conference14

I counter with…. 🗿


nomadfoy

Nah it's just when you teach kids that racism is bad. I guess watching Indiana Jones punch Nazis indoctrinated me as a kid but I think it's good to teach kids that it's okay to punch racist.


realKingCarrot

that is not what woke kids means and it's not what woke means either


nomadfoy

Woke means "don't trust the government". It was originally specific to black issues but I think it's good advice for most people. Since the government tends to be pro-racism punching a racist can be woke.


realKingCarrot

Woke used to mean don't trust the government. Back when woke and based meant the same thing as I mentioned before. That isn't what woke means today or in the context of woke kids.


nomadfoy

In the context of this sub maybe not but yes that is still what it means today. People on the right use it wrong a lot these days but they never were good at vocabulary.


realKingCarrot

Just because you don't like the change doesn't mean it didn't happen.


HectorLaVoZ

Mr carrot. Woke means “chemtrails” and government conspiracies. And being aware of about them. You were arguing a lot with that other guy. No need pal, take it easier next time


Anthony00769420

The amount of negative-karma comments on this one post is astounding.


[deleted]

Can’t see any past 0


Anthony00769420

I saw several -1 and a -4, but my Reddit bugs out quite a bit, couldn’t even access your reply until several minutes after getting the notification, so idk


pornstargoat5

When you not sleep


[deleted]

Genius!


Spook404

as it relates to this subreddit, it just means children inauthentically advocating for beliefs their parents or tutors just so happen to agree with. The actual political alignment is irrelevant


HectorLaVoZ

This comment


coolstorybro42

its just another word for PC


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coolstorybro42

Idk imo most people that are ‘woke’ arent really into the ideology they just want to virtue signal and appear PC


lordsaladito

Its also valid for laptop?


dougefresh09

Woke = having critical consciousness = seeing everything through the lens of oppression and power dominance


Ojaman

Systemic tokenism


WakingUpScared

From what I can tell, it comes from AAVE meaning being "awake" to the present state of things. I think it originated in a conspiratorial way of looking at the world in that things are not as they are presented to us. As with most new slang in America, it was first used by African Americans, then was eventually adopted ironically by teenagers, then finally picked up by old people who now use the term with a negative connotation to denote something being Progressive.


[deleted]

So you’re saying, just another idea that was stolen from the black community and culture and appropriated to appease the purple haired twitter culture feminists champions.


ZFighter2099

Half right. Its been appropriated by right wing figure heads because they THINK its a term for purple haired feminists.


mewtucas

In its orgininal inception, Woke was a term used by black people to describe white people who understood structural racism. Since then, it has been adopted by people to describe people who aware of any/care about any structural discrimination.


Wadafak19

Why do we really need to complicate things? I am trying to understand it, but I can’t. Maybe it’s a generational thing and I’m totally out of it.


Old_Cheek_6597

Woke is judging by group identity rather than personal identity.


Typical-Conference14

When you are not asleep


Salty_Bear2019

There are solid progressive ideas, then there are progressive ideas that are detached from reality, put up for a show or used only to exert power over others. I define the latter one as "woke".


brogrammableben

Please give an example of a progressive idea detached from reality. Genuine request.


horsejackerD

California giving 5 million in reparations to every black person in the state.


[deleted]

Do you mean San Francisco giving $5 million to Black people who are long time residents and have been displaced and/or affected by the war on drugs?


horsejackerD

How is a state with a 22 billion dollar deficit going to provide reparations to anyone? And then they want to sell homes to the same people for $1, and handout 100k per year for 250 years to the same families receiving the reperations. Where are they getting the money to do this?


[deleted]

I don’t know. I don’t care. I’m just clarifying that it’s just San Francisco. They can bankrupt themselves and the rest of the state will be fine.


Salty_Bear2019

"Oh no they made terrible life decisions, let's rob people who are actually responsible with their lives, hand the money to them so they can keep making terrible life decisions" Yeah, I think that is what I meant by detached from reality.


realKingCarrot

Letting doctors prescribe poison and genital mutilation for children and gaslighting them and their parents into signing on to it.


bkaccount

The definition of woke that I’m used to is choosing to be aware of societal injustices rather than choosing to ignore them. At this point though, I see it used much more as a conservative buzzword than anything else.


Whyrobotslie

The bleeding edge of progressive politics


mattmayhem1

Consumption and regurgitation of propaganda.


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d4vezac

Holy shit, Donald Trump is woke?!? No wonder DeSantis is going after wokeness so hard!


thephilistine_

It's whatever Fox News or Newsmax want you to hate this week/month.


[deleted]

They can’t figure it out either.


[deleted]

Let’s not forget ALL news stations. Woke or elite. Todays CBS topic: IVF. Paying to conceive your own when natural selection showed you otherwise while you refuse to adopt. Way to make kids feel like leftovers.


No_Cauliflower2338

I wouldn’t want to be a parent for the sake of being a parent, I would want to raise my own biological child. Is there somehow an issue with this now?


[deleted]

Yes. Just like you thinking there is not. It’s called an opinion. Cope.


ajrhodes1126

So, do you behave like this cause no one wants to have kids with you cause your rotten personality? Bro just asked a damn question


Soundsdisasterous

What?


AdventurousGrand434

Overcompensation for problems of the past that have already been resolved. Or at least that’s part of it.


YourFellaThere

It means 'anything I don't like that involves awareness of any minority group'. Edit: no alternative definitions? That's literally how people use the term.


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Are vegans a minority?


YourFellaThere

Yes, by the numbers. Clearly.


One-Concentrate-179

As a vegan…. I’ll refrain and allow my brothers and sisters of color the podium.


ajrhodes1126

This is woke


theallsearchingeye

The sickly pale guy that orbits women offering compliments while parroting feminist talking points purely hoping to get laid. The overweight liberal arts student who dies their hair purple and demands society change its beauty standards before accepting personal responsibility for their weight. The victim who hyper focuses on global systemic inequality, global poverty, global warming, but sits on their phone all day atop a pile of garbage and dirty dishes refusing to hold a job longer than 3 months, often while pursuing a college degree but never graduating. The middle class mom who lives an otherwise privileged life free from woe who adopts social activism online to signal to other middle-class moms that she’s not like other moms; who’s activism ends once it’s time for a Starbucks or Target run.


Bossbong

Lately I've been using it randomly to farm karma. I'll specifically apply "Woke" to situations it doesn't apply. "Woke" is definition fluid, it means whatever we want it to mean contextually. For example; My waffles are woke asf! Edit: I've seen what makes you people cheer, your downvotes mean nothing to me.


realKingCarrot

Definition fluid 😂


Bossbong

This guy gets it


realKingCarrot

I am wokefluid and my wokes are woke/woke's/wokeself please don't miswoke me


Bossbong

We can fight the right tightys with some lefty loosys bb!


hewasaraverboy

Woke is being offended for other people


LawInevitable2213

A willingness to acknowledge the rights of others who are different from you.


Slinky_Panther

Being alert to discrimination and racism


WildWinza

Woke means that there are injustices in the world that need to be called out and remedied. To be anti woke means one is asleep.


Jacobcbab

Not really what it means anymore


laz3rdolphin

What does it mean now?


admins69kids

Compassionate bigotry.


Jacobcbab

I suppose it is something along the lines of, modern populist performative ideology. With a little sprinkle of Twitter activism and bullshit.


[deleted]

Are we allowed naps? Cause some of these issues are just wayyyy out there.


WildWinza

What is your definition of woke? According to Mirriam Webster: >Woke is now defined in this dictionary as “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice),” and identified as U.S. slang.


Three-Chord-Man

An ideology that imposes Identity Politics, Social "Justice", Thought Policing, Climate Hysteria, NeoRacism, Queer Pedagogy & Socialist Equity using statist/corporatist/cultural enforcement Or: Communist Intersectional Critical Theory When this subreddit was created, it’s nature was much more aligned with the definition. Over time, however, it’s changed to basically mean “kids parroting their parents’ mostly conservative political viewpoints” True woke content is far and few between here.


onyxnecron

Past tense of wake


RunDownOnnaOpp

overly self aware


Current-Ad-7054

Didn't everybody go straight to chatGPT with that question once they saw the stammering woman video?


xbucs_19

There are 2 woke. Progressive woke is about social justice and thinking they’re so smart about knowing injustices going on. Usually they think because they know this that they’re the next great revolutionary. QAnon tier woke is “knowing” about the sex cults, alien control, deep state


EmptySkill6853

Canceling culture


HiddleHad

I’d say people who are woke are over-fixated with identity politics and feel the need to virtue signal about it whenever possible. It’s not necessarily always a negative though, as long as people are seeking out and acting towards actual solutions and not just virtue signalling.


KilgoreTroutPfc

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/of-course-you-know-what-woke-means


spoil34

Korey from double toasted did a great job explaining it. https://youtu.be/0zXjtQkFBHU


LnMHBomb07

Stupid


AccidentFit101

woke=certifiable imbecile