[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Livia

Maybe you should contact the newspapers, I think you'll find they're the ones who started the whole woke furore that everyone's so upset about. I imagine 'woke' refers to extreme political correctness, not necessarily just a black/white racist thing. But I responded to the story, I didn't come up with the word 'woke' in connection to it, neither did my fellow forum members.

I'm surprised you don't every hear anyone using the word 'woke'. It's out there, everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke

meaning of the word in a wikipedia article

has since the 1930s or earlier been used to refer to awareness of social and political issues affecting African Americans, often in the construction stay woke. Beginning in the 2010s, it came to be used to refer to a broader awareness of social inequalities such as racial injustice, sexism, and denial of LGBT 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