# My definition of woke **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 8, 2024, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-definition-of-woke/1011343 "2024-12-08T11:31:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-definition-of-woke/1011343/3 "2024-12-08T12:00:48Z")
The definition depends on who’s doing the defining. For people who take progressive causes seriously, in its original formulation, it just means, open your eyes, pay attention, recognize what’s actually happening, don’t sleepwalk through the world. It’s difficult to refute, because it’s such a simple, straightforward concept. But for close-minded right-wing dickheads, it’s the latest bugaboo buzzword. They don’t know what it means, they just know they don’t like it, so they use it as a bludgeon for everything, exactly the way they attacked previous iterations of similar labels in earlier generations. I addressed this at length here: > [@Are Republicans Tiring Of Wars On “Wokeness”?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-republicans-tiring-of-wars-on-wokeness/988165/15): > > Agree. The Republican party in the US is the party of heterosexual white supremacy. Their policy positions fundamentally and consistently boil down to “we don’t want those people having any kind of control over us.” They oppose racial progressivism like affirmative action and similar policies because they won’t accept “the coloreds” telling them how they can talk and behave. They oppose sexual and alternative-gender progressivism because they equally won’t accept “the queers” making rules they… And I stand by it. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-definition-of-woke/1011343)._