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Originally Posted by Livia
I think the term 'woke' used to mean people who are aware of world crises - poverty, climate change etc. - and tried to do something about it. But the word's been hijacked and now it refers to people who try to highlight world problems by showing people how virtuous they are, who talk about climate change (etc) in a didactic way, assuming that others aren't quite so virtuous or worried. Furthermore, it's just another name, just another reason to push people into pigeon holes and name call with no consequence: woke, gammon, Karen, Millennial, GenX, Boomer.....
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I'd say that's a fairly succinct summing up, and largely agree with this whole post. In 2021 I think using any of these words other than at least semi-ironically really misses the point.