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Poll: Do you like the term 'woke'?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 months ago
    Favorite Answer

    In the right place sure. It's quickly becoming over used. 

  • 2 months ago

    I think it's silly word, invented to disparge liberals........calling them WOKE  and mocking them for it. 

    Republicans seem to love tossing it about, like it's a cuss word . 

  • Anonymous
    2 months ago

    It is a fad word, that pretty much like any other will eventually disappear into the historic annuls of human language. 

  • 2 months ago

    Depends on how it is used.   If you say, "I just woke up", then okay.   But sometimes it is better to use the form "awakened".

  • ?
    Lv 5
    2 months ago

    I think it describes certain people, and ideas well.

  • Anonymous
    2 months ago

    Yes, I love “woke” people. Especially ones that are woke about any injustices against any group of people...😊

  • Anonymous
    2 months ago

    I neither like nor dislike it. I don't harbor personal feelings about terms unless they are innately offensive and sometimes not even then, like many common swear words don't evoke any emotional reaction in me even though they are innately offensive. Terms I dislike include those that are pejorative labels used prejudicially to disparage and oppress others.

  • jijawm
    Lv 5
    2 months ago

    It used to refer to a certain degree of spiritual discernment and moral sensitivity.

    Now it seems to be more about successfully walking the eggshell minefield of the Politically Correct Notion of the Day without getting cancel-cultured for something you may have uttered as a teenager.

  • Anonymous
    2 months ago

    Shouldn't it be "awakened"? Oh well, we'll all be speaking Chinese eventually anyway...

  • Anonymous
    2 months ago

    No. It's stupid. So stupid. Kids aren't "woke" enough to use proper English, that's for sure. I'm AWARE and OBSERVANT and COMPASSIONATE. Not "woke."

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