The Meaning of Woke

[RobertX]

To my understanding, the word woke means that you are aware of most things in the world, like issues, but why is it used in a negative context?

Every time I hear the word, it's always used to describe hypocritical, annoying, and presumptuous people who think they know everything.

Why is that?

[Fant0men]

The term has been hijacked and used by hysterical people on the far left to describe themselves, and also by right-wing people who mock said leftists. I'm politically left-leaning as Sweden is a social democracy, but I think the extremes on both ends of the political spectrum are full of low-IQ morons who sadly taint everyone else by association.

While the linguistic meaning of the word itself is not negative, as you suggest, it has become a negative term cause of what I described.

To be "woke" these days means to have blue hair, be non-straight, be non-white and finally be non-male. To win the oppression olympics you must check all these boxes, as the goal is to be in the extreme minority so you can have a pity party about how privileged everyone else is. There seems to be many people out there who think that they've somehow reached nirvana by virtue of hating half the people in the world.

[RodneyYouPlonker]

There's no such thing as woke.  It's all made up on purpose to condition people and control them.  People really believe in all this nonsense but none of it is true it's been created by the media to try and make people live by a certain understanding and to confuse society.

Don't get suckered in by all this woke nonsense.  You are what you are and that's that.  The media are very clever at trying to control people and spread their message of fear and panic when they feel it is necessary.  There's some very well programmed and controlled people these days.  Most of the stuff you see on TV is all nonsense, that's why you should take everything you see on TV with a pinch of salt and pay no attention to it.  They obviously have to have something to talk about so they use things like this woke nonsense.  It's just somebody's opinion that's all, it means entirely nothing.

Woke means when you've woken up in a morning and you've just got out of bed and you're heading for the kitchen to go and get yourself some breakfast before you eventually head off to work to start your 'normal' day.

People say such a great amount of crap on TV and in the media these days it's very hard to understand what is right and what is not and unfortunately 95% of it is total nonsense that has been doctored up to sound like it's important.

[CaptButler]

. . . but I think the extremes on both ends of the political spectrum are full of low-IQ morons who sadly taint everyone else by association.

True, except for a few complete cynics who exploit such morons in a quest for power.  Though even those cynics are not as clever as what they believe themselves to be.

[Ladyanne3]

When I go into the ladies bathroom in Walmart and there some male in a dress is standing up and going pee with the stall door open...
The only thing I'm allowed to do is take the stall next to him and do my business. If he asks me if I've got a pad then I'm supposed to shut up and give him one.

That's what woke is.

[RodneyYouPlonker]

I used to go clubbing years ago when it was more popular and stay out all night.  At this certain club that I visited a few times they had mixed toilets.  It was totally fine, people queued up to get a stall.  People would wander in and out whether men or women and nobody gave a hoot it was all very organised.  People went there really for the music not to try and molest somebody.  It seemed at the time there was none of that just people out enjoying themselves on a Saturday...

I say all this Woke nonsense is just something for people to talk about because they are bored.  Mostly made up by the left of course, this woke thing I don't take any notice of.  Don't tend to sit and listen to the rubbish that they put out on TV these days because it's just mostly rubbish and nothing else.

In the olden days people didn't used to talk in that way they would just stay at home and talk to their family and enjoy each other's company.  Because of the digital world and people spending their entire day on their mobile phone the entire thing has ruined people's social lives and turned their brains into cabbage mush that doesn't really compute to anything much at all.

[ToXi]

Since it's not a real word, the definition changes, it used to mean one thing, now it means two things.
Without extra context it could also be that the word was being used in a hypocritical, ironic or incorrect way.

[SmashAndGrab]

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master — that’s all."

[CaptButler]

SmashAndGrab wins the thread.  Everyone else can go home now.