# Is it Time to Tone Down the Wokeness, Especially about the Past?

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**Created:** [November 15, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-tone-down-the-wokeness-especially-about-the-past/1010287 "2024-11-15T15:14:11Z")\
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**DemonTree** has finally provided a definition of “woke”. For some reason, rather than give it in this thread, she has started a new thread in IMHO.

> [@What is 'woke'?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-woke/1011343):
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> People keep bugging me to define what ‘woke’ means, but that’s not an easy task. Probably the best definition is to say that ‘woke’ refers to the ideas believed by and spread by the Social Justice movement, and to the societal changes and policies pushed by them. But what is the Social Justice movement? Some history: fifty years after the Civil Rights movement, black Americans were still poorer than white Americans, more likely to be in jail, and in general doing worse. After 3 waves of feminis…

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