Define '#woke'

Ja’han Jones reacts to a Republican author struggling to define the word "#woke."


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[Charlie]

She wrote a whole chapter of the word Woke in her book and can't explain what the word means? Lawd have mercy.

[tomfuller]

I used to be woke. The smallest thing would get me triggered. I protested everything that offended me, and demanded it all be cancelled. Finally I outgrew it, and went to preschool.

[atas]

I guarantee that 99% of people who use the word “woke” has no idea what it means.

[TheSuzberry]

Old white woman here. I was honored when someone called me woke. Then I cut them from my life because they thought it was an insult.

[thattransmuffin]

99% of the time they just use it to say “something that go’s against my views”

[dilanthayapa]

I define it as being a brain dead zombie.

[veronicadabney]

She wrote a chapter on it and couldn't even define it!! Same with CRT. Typical.

[billpool]

Woke is not hard to define. It's recognizing that there are societal inequities and understanding that they should be corrected.

[mercyowusu]

wow as a black elderly woman l consider myself as woke. eyes wide open and an open mind.

[HaughtKarl-jxvr]

"Woke" is synonymous with "stupid."

[AndreaSimone]

"We spent an entire chapter defining it, but I can't describe it except to tell the truth that we want to create hierarchy of oppression using our attempted takeover of the word."

[ninij]

She can't define it because if she did, it would make her look bad. It would expose her own racism and homophobia, and she is smart enough to not let that happen. She would rather look like this than the hateful person she really is.

[awoooga]

Woke to these people just means any progressive stuff they dont like

[Mahx]

Wokeness is defined as the inability to define woman

[franciswilliams]

It means you can bear witness to their evil schemes, if you are asleep they can can do their deeds in the darkness .

[ricksimon]

"woke" is easy to define: "being aware that certain groups are treated unfairly by society".

[darellsimons]

Woke is just blaming everything on one race

[BrianFoster-jifp]

I guarantee that 100% of everyone doesn't know what 'woke' means.

[michaeloswald]

It's being awakened to social injustice/ inequities...

[leighdavis]

Plain and simple, "woke" denotes the opposite of "sleep" or "not woke."