Can anyone explain “woke” to me

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???

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*susiewoozie, how old are you?

I can't understand anything in this thread.

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?

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.

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.

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 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 ?

Then you are not very ‘woke’

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

I think you know what I mean Urm

Why ‘strange’ suziewoozie??

This is interesting
theconversation.com/where-woke-came-from-and-why-marketers-should-think-twice-before-jumping-on-the-social-activism-bandwagon-122713

Yep! Round here it means you're not asleep.

Really merlot?

I was about to suggest you ask Meghan Markle and she'll write the answer on a banana but Urmstongran beat me to it.

It's the only example I can think of.

President Obama said (in so many words..) that if all you're doing is casting stones, then you're not woke, and what you're doing couldn't be considered activism but judgement-

So woke would mean offering both solution and insight-

I don’t think people describe themselves as being woke- more other people describe what they’ve said.

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

How strange that that was the first example you came up with Urm

And Meghan writing those daft messages on bananas last year for sex workers. ‘You’re special’ etc. Jeez.

African-American origin I believe and racial injustice to start with ( and sexual harassment latterly).

I don’t actually like it as a word to use - even though I sometimes use it in exasperation but always I’ve realised in relation to trans issues. I think it’s when the feely bit of an issue somehow trumps the bigger picture and there’s little evidence of logical thought. Two recent examples - Always were being woke when they decided to take the female symbol of their sanitary packaging and second, Mand S announcing that men could use women’s changing rooms if that made them feel more comfortable. Neither of those examples are hypocritical, they are just damn stupid and defy rational thought.

So have I got this right. It started as referring to issues that were currently in the public conscience but now and insult for being too aware of them. Any one know how it originated?
People being woken up to these things perhaps?