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Originally Posted by Glenn.
A lot of the members who use the woke on here don’t even know what it means.
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Because it is
Over Used in the Wrong Way
[Woke is an adjective derived from
African-American English has been used since
the 1930s or earlier to refer to awareness
of racial prejudice and discrimination,
often in the construction stay woke.
The term acquired political connotations
by the 1970s and gained further popularity
in the 2010s with the hashtag #staywoke.
Over time, woke came to be used to
refer to a broader awareness of
social inequalities such as sexism
and
denial of LGBTQ rights.
Woke has also been used as shorthand
for some ideas of
the American Left involving
identity politics and social justice,
such as white privilege and reparations
for slavery in the United States.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke