Woke

Woke is a term that has been used to mean awakened or aware, and can be said to be a short for those terms; the implication being a highly aware person in some sense.G. Eiríksson, 2022 The term is often associated with the sociopolitical struggles of Black people. "Woke" refers to being able to see discursive systems of oppression that most people, particularly the privileged, are blind to because they just take it for granted as the norm. It is AAVE originally so it refers most to being able to see systems of whiteness & white supremacy.— Helen Pluckrose"1:30 PM · Aug 28, 2020·Twitter Web App"woke is largely will-to-power disguising itself so far as it can as a liberation movement.G. Eiríksson, 26. June, 2020. Iceland. Woke has various definitions, one of them is a synonym of utopia, such as a Black supremacy utopia or a multi-racial "perfect" harmony (e.g. Coca Cola ad "harmony").
 ☀whatever they can use as an unattackable shield for their true intentions."Jacques" — The Other Life Discord server, 26. June, 2020.
Related concept: Wokemon -- someone hired mainly because of "Woke Capital" policies.
Those who are woke have woken (become woke).
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* Politics; Woke Left; Leftism; Rights; 
* AAVE (African-American Vernacular English); 21st Century English
* Social justice; Egalitarianism
* Wokeism
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