What is the opposite of woke?

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I think some people like to say they hate "wokeness" without thinking what it means.

When I here right wing politicians use terms like woke it strikes me as very divisive and plays in the hands of those who seek to divide.

Similar banter is being used by the Tories to win votes .....forget all this green clap trap is now being bantered around...when they know full well we can't avoid the reality.

While Brits flee parts of the Mediterranean due to heat and fires we have politicians that ars so irresponsible that they are willing to rubbish science to remain in power.

We must return to sensible policies that may not be popular. It's not all about winning votes, it's about doing what's right and the only way to achieve this is through cross party support...so in issues of national importance all parties should form an agreement on a cohesive policy that will span parliaments.

Allowing our cities to become polluted, or allowing the nations health to decline should not be a political battlefield....it should be a consensus on how we mend it

Opposite of woke is cuntservative.
Those creatures who have no humanity should be ashamed of calling themselves normal.
They are normal in behaving like an abnormal

I suggest you read a dictionary, rather than the right wing media that has clearly infiltrated your thought processes.

Someone above says woke is aware of injustice but I think a lot have come to see woke as want everything exactly so, and you do see it on mn that if you say something a little different to how people want it said you’re absolutely jumped on. There’s correct phrasing for everything now, and I remember being out with a group of friends and we were all saying we have no idea how to speak to younger people now (and we’re only early 40s), you’re corrected, pulled up and laughed at for any opinions now. That’s why people are wary of the word woke

Woke to me means people like the vile students abusing Professor Stock, they looked totally deranged.

RB in the news currently is anti-woke.

Woke is the biggest con going. Celebrities leading the way, falling over themselves to state the latest mantras to look good. Without looking too closely at exactly what they are supporting.
Meanwhile women, children and LGB people suffer the worst attacks on their rights and misogeny and homophobia run riot and if you question this you are deemed a bigot. Wake up everyone!

The opposite of woke or awake is asleep.

Have you noticed how “woke” as an insult is falling out of use and makes the ones still using it sound like a dinosaur?

Woke is a slur, so the opposite would be a slur for people with the opposite view point, like "rights hoarding dinosaur" or "daily mail reader".

I think the meaning of it has become so subjective and distorted that it's impossible to identify its opposite.

To me woke has come to mean - looking like we're big on diversity and equality when really we haven't thought it through at all and they're just buzz words that we want to be in on.

Has changed? Or is being used in that way by some groups who want to sow division?

I laughed when Kathy Burke tweeted "I love being 'woke'. It's much nicer than being an ignorant fucking twat" in March 2022. They've made a t-shirt of that, and it's still how I basically feel.

Before Covid, someone at work in a discussion about racism said I was 'a bit more woke than most people', and meant it nicely ( and if that's not a virtue signal, what is? =D ).

But yeah, that's all changed now. Rightwing pushback has made it more of an insult - such are the culture wars. @dcbc1234 described woke as 'an inability to see any shades of grey,' and I think those of us who think we're liberal & concerned for equality need to acknowledge that that happens. It's about people clinging to doctrine, isn't it? - like religious people quoting scripture, because it's easier than actually thinking issues through on their merits. Both sides of the debate (intolerant, bad-tempered argument?) do it; lefties like to see themselves as being on the side of the angels as much as anyone.

So the boring answer is, it depends who you ask.

Yes agree 10000000%

Rational, reasonable, realistic.

Free speech advocate.
Libertarian.
Tolerant.
Rational and reason based.

Woke is the opposite of these.

It depends on how woke is being used.

Woke: being aware of injustices and trying to make things better, understanding different perspectives
Vs
Woke: identity politics or student politics driven by fringe groups, yelling "no debate", shutting down discussions with accusations of bigotry, trying to censor people who don't agree with them, think that hearing political speakers with different views is a threat to their existence etc.

I'd say a lot of people fall into the first camp, but wouldn't necessarily describe themselves as woke.

Not many people fall into the second camp, but those that do seem to make a lot of noise and spend a lot of time focusing on how they're the good guys.

There'll be some people who are ignorant and bigoted (eg shouting "it's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve hahaha" or "actually all lives matter") so will criticise the first group, but most of the things I've read across the political spectrum most criticisms of "woke" seem to be aimed at the second group. I'm not sure what the opposite of woke is for that situation.

Maybe when it first happened, it did not mean those things, but today, when many people use the term "woke", that's what they mean.

Plenty of words go through this, unfortunately.

@LolaSmiles
Good answer, although I disagree that saying "All lives matter" is a bad thing to say, especially in light of what BLM actually does / what its runners do/have done.

I guess I have the benefit of being a future poster, but even at the time, I disagreed.

I don't see any evidence of black people being killed more than any other ethnicity. It's usually black people killing other black people (as with other ethnicities killing their own) and people from that culture often say their culture needs an update.

Normal, free thinkers. That's the opposite of 'woke'.

Woke to me is having some empathy for fellow human beings. So the opposite of that is tosser.

Ricky Ger Avis new stage show which is v unwoke ,I believe, is No 1 on Netflix charts.

Woke: Incapable of understanding the concept of a zombie thread from 2022, so keep resurrecting it because of their desperate need to be right irrelevant of the fact that no one is listening. 🤷‍♀️

Gammon

A handful of words that describe the opposite of "woke":

Common sense, logic, intelligent, tolerant, absence of bias/prejudice, fairness, openmindedness.