How do you define WOKE?

I don't use the term because I honestly don't know what it means.

I thought that I had an idea.

When I first heard the term a few years ago I thought it referred to people with and interest in current events and who were awake to or aware of trending topics particularly around human behaviour.

Now it seems that the term is used as an insult but nobody who uses the term can provide me with anything but a nebulous hodgepodge of grievances and personal dislikes.

"This person is WOKE because they disagree with me and therefore I can dismiss everything they say as wrong" appears to be one of the ways it is used in OLO.

Has the term reached its use by date?

Does its meaning constantly morph into something else?

I'm interested in what others think.

"This person is WOKE because they disagree with me and therefore I can dismiss everything they say as wrong"

WTF? - Not Again,
From my own observations & experiences the Woke consider themselves to be enlightened & switched on, knowing everything better than the rest because they attended University for a while. They're the ones who only have made-up racism & discrimination as an argument & most of them live off Govt hand-outs or are employed in Govt bureaucracy. In a word, they're Leftists without a cause.
As the definition gradually changes they try to make it sound like these examples copied from the net;

While you're obsessing over your diet, people are starving in the world. Get woke.
He's so woke, he suggested we go to the Women's March.
You can take a quiz to test how woke you are.
I'm a woke black girl and I'm not gonna let anyone push me around.

I only encountered this word here, on OLO.

I will keep using it as the past tense of 'wake'.

using it as the past tense of 'wake'.
Yuyutsu,
Although they actually believe that they're awake to what's going on, in reality they're mere sleep walkers in dreams of their ideology !

Hello Indyvidual,

Thank you for the response.

You say "only have made-up racism & discrimination as an argument"

I'm not sure what that means (the made-up part).

Are these the only social issues of concern or are their more?

Does someone have to fall into all of these categories to be woke or is there a minimum number or even hierarchy of wokeness?

Is wokeness a scale say from "slightly woke" to someone being "a total woker?"

I know I'm being flippant in that last sentence but I'm still puzzled.

Good Morning WTF,

I don't use the term woke.

I've only encountered it on this forum -
where it's been used in a derogatory manner.

I've looked it up on the web and we're told that
the English meaning of woke is:

"Being aware of and actively attentive to important
facts and issues (especially issues of racist and
social justice) and identified as US slang."

"It originated in African American English and gained
more widespread use beginning in 2014 as part of the
" Black L:ives Matter" movement. By the end of that
same decade it was also being applied by some as a
general pejorative for anyone who is or appears
to be politically left leaning."

And who says we can't learn anything on this forum?
(smile).