Can anyone explain “woke” to me

I think you know what I mean Urm

But, maybe the rest of us don't, suziewoozie, I don't.

Then you are not very ‘woke’

I don’t either.....but oh wait! Could it be that you disagree with Urmstongran on the subject of Brexit Suzie so you decide to be disagreeable about her choice of ‘woke’ subjects?

Merlot ?

I thought I knew what it means, but now I'm not so sure. I'd better not use it, so I don't offend someone. I thought it means awareness of social injustices. How can such a small word have such huge inferences and capacity for giving offence?

I think Meghan is a classic example of an hypocritical ‘woke ‘ person in that she claims to be so concerned about the planet and ‘climate change’ yet is perfectly happy taking private jets on various holidays.

So she is woke but only when it suits her.

Actually that just about sums up the attitude of them all with the possible exception of the saintly Greta I suppose.

And let’s hear it for Meghan again - anyone would think she was the only example of wokeness in the UK. If you want a better example look at the LDs launch this afternoon of their position on all things trans. That’s serious woke.

Ginny it does mean that but it’s also moved on. If you called me woke I’d not be pleased as in my book, it involves posturing and probably not well informed. But we don’t need to use the word do we?

I can't understand anything in this thread.

*susiewoozie, how old are you?

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I think it's considered sick to use words like woke - it slaps and lets people know how aware you are of social issues

Whaaat???

Merlot agree with you 're opposite of asleep.

Gone I am 23, have 4 dc and six dgc.

Any word which baffles can easily be defined by Uncle Google.

All you do is put the word in double speech marks followed by def
And up pops the defintion.

I typed in "woke" def and got this:

alert to injustice in society, especially racism.
"we need to stay angry, and stay woke"

The Urban Dictionary is also a place to look, if you don't mind that it's a no-holds-barred sort of place.

That old Sw?!

Why has everybody got to be angry on the part of everyone else these days?

Seems to be the norm for some these days Gonegirl

Personally I think we’ve become too PC nowadays to the detriment of common sense.

'Urban Dictionary defines "woke" as being aware, and "knowing what's going on in the community." It also mentions its specific ties to racism and social injustice.'

I still fail to grasp why my example was ridiculed? Maybe I’m just not ‘woke’ enough.
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I once heard a comment that, as soon as 'oldies' understand slang words, they're abandoned - sounds about right to me, by the time we've understood what 'woke' means it'll have been dropped!

Oh, I thought you meant the oldies got abandoned.

That too maybe!

Why don't we just stick to using standard English we can all understand, and leave all these nonsensical corruptions to those who want to be seen as terribly 'with-it'...but are actually just showing what sheep they are?