It’s a broad label for anything they don’t like (LGBTQ+, feminism, DEI, etc.), but doesn’t “woke” mean you are awake? Would that imply that things that are not “woke” or are “anti-woke” are “asleep”?

Then they go on about conspiracies (“climate change is not real”, “deep state”, “5G is harmful”, “vaccines cause autism”, the list goes on unfortunately…) where they’re claiming that you need to “wake up to the truth”. Surely they don’t consider “woke” to be “the truth”, so shouldn’t they call it something like “asleep”, “sleepy”, “snoozy”, or similar?

I needed to use a lot of quotation marks there…

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    The man stopped and asked, “My friend, what are you? Are you a celestial being or a god?”

    “No,” said the Buddha.

    “Well, then are you some kind of magician or wizard?”

    Again the Buddha answered, “No.”

    “Are you a man?”

    “No.”

    “Well, my friend, then what are you?”

    The Buddha replied, “I am woke.”