To hate the term 'woke'

[crunchymint]

Seriously annoying. Am I the only one who hates it?

YADNBU. “Stay woke” odfod. Ridiculous.

Eh? It’s a word. What’s the term?

Meh. I don't mind it.

I only know it as in ‘I woke up at 5.15 am’

I am old so am I missing another meaning?

YANBU. Usually used by flat-earther-anti-vax-the-government-are-poisoning-us-with-chemtrails conspiracy freaks in my experience.

I don't like it, either, but then, lots of modern slang is unappealing, imho. I still remember thinking "my bad" (instead of "sorry" or "excuse me") sounded so stupid, back in school... Clearly I wasn't one of the super cool kids.

Meh, I like it.

Can you explain what you mean, how is a word a term?

Its a very useful word which on social media can be taken as a signal to block the person who used it.

How does one use it?

Awful.

Can we also ban “I was shook”

Is it a replacement of 'see the light?

I am familiar with it but I still showed myself up at work last week by saying 'what' to a 23 year old who used this word. Then I was scarlet as she explained what she meant to me. The old person. And I knew! I don't know why I said 'what' Just didn't recognise it immediately.

Holy I have no issue with that use. Woke is used by some to say that they were once unaware of certain issues, and are now woke.
For example, I didn't realise the country was run by big business/lizards, etc, so glad I am now woke. Always said with a great sense of superiority to all those people who are not yet woke.

Yanbu.

Can we also cancel "bae"?

Unless used in the context of “I woke up this morning” yes I hate it. Off to google the new modern (probably shit) meaning

Never even heard of bae

HATE IT! Also hate “shook” and “bae”

Crow Good point

To be honest using it in the traditional.sense is bad enough j.e. " the kids woke me up at 6am this Saturday" "DS woke up three times last night" etc.

I tend to use it ironically - as taught to me by teen dd
As in “he’s so woke it hurts” or “ a bunch of woke bros”
I suppose the equivalent is “right on”
I can’t do links but look up the spoof my jeans are woke advert, very funny

I've never heard it, but now you've explained it it sounds like a silly sound bite smug folk use to prove they are so much more enlightened on any number of issues (which also conveniently allows any criticism of their new enlightened state to be explained away because people haven't woke yet).

It = trendy

crunchy that’s some bloody shite grammar ‘I am woke’ sounds truly fucking awful.

I can't stand it, plus it signifies that the person saying it is a tedious online social justice warrior.

One aforementioned SJW told me that it was racist to dislike the term but was unable to articulate why.