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:
And I stand by it.