WOKE

JustPete
JustPete Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 303 Empowering
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I have just spent an hour discussing the meaning of WOKE.  Without dictionaries or google or any other reference assistance, tell me the meaning of WOKE........

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  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 14,985 Championing
    Come out of sleep
  • vikingqueen
    vikingqueen Scope Member Posts: 1,576 Championing
       I woke up this morning.....  ;)
  • JustPete
    JustPete Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 303 Empowering
    Apparently not.............keep going...........there is relevance to this community (I promise)
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 14,985 Championing
    edited November 2021
    My serious answer without looking in a dictionary would be it is used to refer to someone who is very sensitive to things like rights for black people, gay people etc. Maybe also disabled people which is why you say it’s relevant to this community? Also I’d say it is often used as an insult
  • JustPete
    JustPete Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 303 Empowering
    @66Mustang @Teddybear12 .........Yes............when did that happen?

    This makes sleep related words 'wake' 'woke' etc just colloquial use of proper words 'awake' 'awoke' etc


  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 14,985 Championing
    I probably first heard it used for that reason in maybe 2018?
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited November 2021
    Well, words which are useful, at least currently, survive and others which are no longer useful decline in use and  are ultimately consigned to history, survival of the fittest lexically. 

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