Literally it is past tense for wake. Wake is to come out of a deep sleep. So it describes having come out of a deep sleep.
What does it mean to you? When you hear it what comes into your head?
Literally it is past tense for wake. Wake is to come out of a deep sleep. So it describes having come out of a deep sleep.
What does it mean to you? When you hear it what comes into your head?
I'm pretty sure it's the modern day version of calling someone retarded. But since retarded is no longer useable in polite society, everyone just says woke.
Give it about 5 years, calling someone woke will not be allowed either. Just like calling someone a simp is somehow forbidden now also. Essentially any word that you can use to display disgust with someone will be outlawed. Free speech - great isn't it.
When I first heard it, I understood it to mean that the "woke" person was seeing clearly and not being misguided by the many misinformation efforts, whether from religious, political, or other sources. Able to see through the propaganda and able to understand what is the truth.
Edit: Since then it has been broadly used and abused and I no longer think it means that when I hear it. It has become somewhat meaningless.
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Make Shattered a $5 stand-alone subscription
It makes me think of Rowdy Roddy Piper's sunglasses in the movie They Live.
It makes me think of white liberals telling others what they should and should not believe... especially minorities... because obviously they aren't smart enough to think for themselves.
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