I apparently have missed something.
Will you please tell me what “woke” means? I have seen it bandied about quite a bit on this site today, usually in a sarcastic manner.
Thank you.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/ ... a great little online tool for those of us that refuse to play along with millennial language weirdness.
“Will you please tell me what “woke” means?”
It’s a term that’s been around in the black community for awhile. It really gained steam after the Trayvon Martin soap opera when the Black Lives Matter provocateurs latched onto the term. Allegedly it means to be aware of racial and social injustice going on around one. It has morphed, in that the snowflakes and social justice warriors require that white people be “woke” to their privilege and guilt by association in the oppression of everything not white.
Alleged leaders like Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton have made their fortunes by preying on people’s grievances and making victims of every one of their followers. It pays handsomely. They never called it “woke” though.
Woke is the latest incarnation of the grievance industry. It means perpetual victimhood for blacks and cultural suicide for naive, but well meaning, non blacks.