>did the woke people tarnish the word, or did opposing media re-define it? It’s the latter. “Woke” is mostly used nowadays as a pejorative by folks who are wo

>did the woke people tarnish the word, or did opposing media re-define it? It’s the latter. “Woke” is mostly used nowadays as a pejorative by folks who are worried that their “tits or GTFO”-style post histories might actually have real consequences and are involved in a harried attempt to rewrite contemporary social mores in their favor. It is also used (in the US) by naive, misguided, and mostly older people that are genuinely trying to signal some sort of connection to progressive politics, generally with limited knowledge of them. Either way it’s a word that I personally use as a sign not to engage with the person speaking because either way it’s somebody asking for (or demanding) a free education about stuff they refuse to google.