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Until a few years ago “woke” meant being alert to racial injustice and discrimination. Now the word has a completely different meaning

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How has the term “woke” evolved throughout the years?

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"I get a sense among certain young people on social media that the way of making change is to be as judgemental as possible about other people."

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Barack Obama challenges 'woke culture'

“Woke” culture is a subculture from America that focuses on social justice-related, anarchist, or leftist issues, such as

• microaggressions (offensive phrases that make others feel excluded),
• police actions against Blacks,
• high rates of poverty driving Blacks, Native Americans, and Latinos into poverty,
• attacks against Muslims, or suspicion against them by associating them with the terrorists who use similar beliefs,
• and some degree of environmentalism.

The “woke” part of its name is from the slang phrase “stay woke”, which means “to be aware of an issue”: in this case, it is various issues affect...

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"Tarzan’s a dude who lives in a treehouse and talks to apes. He lives in Africa and has no black friends... To borrow a term I use very, very rarely, Tarzan is not 'woke.' He’s easily the least woke fictional character other than C. Thomas Howell in the movie Soul Man. I don’t care if you put the entire cast of Empire in Tarzan. I’m not interested."

King of the bungle: Why Tarzan will never be OK

Edgar Rice Burroughs’ character has inspired more than 50 films, but their out-of-date approach to the ‘dark continent’ leaves them fatally flawed

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Woke

Being Woke means being aware.. Knowing whats going on in the community

(Relating to Racism and Social Injustice)

Person 1: Stop bringing racism into everything
Person 2 : Your clearly not woke

Definition of wonk

noun

• 1 North American informal, derogatory a studious or hard-working person:any kid with an interest in science was a wonk
• a person who takes an excessive interest in minor details of political policy:he is a policy wonk in tune with a younger generation of voters

• 2 Nautical slang an incompetent or inexperienced sailor, especially a naval cadet.

Derivatives

wonkish

adjective

Origin:

1920s: of unknown origin

wonk
n. Slang

1. A student who studies excessively; a grind.
2. One who studies an issue or a topic thoroughly or excessively: "leading a talkathon of policy wonks in a methodical effort to build consensus for his programs" (Michael Kranish).

[Origin unknown.]