[Alberta's Child]

That’s all good, but each of those should be addressed on its own — not painted with some broad, inane description like “woke” that sounds like it comes from a dictionary for retarded people.

“Target allows sexual predators in the women’s bathroom with your daughters” is far more direct and effective than: “Target is woke.”

[cgbg]

The problem is that human communication often involves shortcuts—and sometimes those are imprecise.

It reminds of the old Supreme Court comment on the definition of pornography: “I know it when I see it.”

I know “woke” when I see it—and while we debate a lot around here we tend to have a lot of consensus on what qualifies as “woke”.

[cgbg]

Just one other thought—”woke” has predictive power when faced with new data.

A recent example of the Israeli Palestinian/Hamas discussion.

While it does not strictly fit into any of the definitions I gave it is easy to predict that the “woke” would oppose the Israelis even without fully understanding exactly why...