It’s just that some (bad) people think that being woke is a bad thing, and they are overrepresented in the culture at the moment.
To be fair, some (not necessarily bad) people also use woke to mean ‘comes from a good place, but gets taken too far and is a bit cringe’, similar to ‘hippy-dippy’ or ‘touchy- feely’ in the past, I don’t hold that against them too much.
wasn’t woke used as a slang for denoting good things in the past?
It started in afro communities and “woke” meant they were socially conscious and aware of racial injustice and systemic oppression
We should be using this meaning of it
We are.
It’s just that some (bad) people think that being woke is a bad thing, and they are overrepresented in the culture at the moment.
To be fair, some (not necessarily bad) people also use woke to mean ‘comes from a good place, but gets taken too far and is a bit cringe’, similar to ‘hippy-dippy’ or ‘touchy- feely’ in the past, I don’t hold that against them too much.