What it means to be “woke”

tinman · May 15, 2026

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@glynch your boy Dylan Mulvaney in this !

tinman · May 27, 2026

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There’s a lot of threads lately on “woke” people, and examples of “woke” excess. Thought it might be good to have a thread in which we talk about what it means to be “woke” according to people who consider themselves woke, and then contrast that with what it means to be “woke” according to critics of that mindset.

Here’s a short video in which women describe what being “woke” means to them, from a time before the word was mostly transformed into a pejorative:

They describe it as being very aware of social injustice and being willing to speak up against it rather than passively accept it. OK, that seems like a good thing, fundamentally.

And here’s a description of what it means to be “woke” from Douglas Murray, which captures the current way in which it is typically used (generally by critics on the political right or center):

Murray’s POV is that people of the “woke” mindset mostly ignore the progress we’ve made over the last 50 years or so, that many of the “injustices” they claim to exist now are really imagined offenses and aren’t actually problems.
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lol what

Tomstro · May 27, 2026

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lol what

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Funny how the left embraces this but Charlie Kirk was dangerous.

Rocket River · May 27, 2026

Woke = Opposite of Sleep. Opposite of Unconscious. Opposite of Unaware

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edwardc · May 27, 2026

ROCKSS · May 27, 2026

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Dam, it actually does!!

tinman · May 31, 2026 at 1:42 PM

durvasa said: ↑

There’s a lot of threads lately on “woke” people, and examples of “woke” excess. Thought it might be good to have a thread in which we talk about what it means to be “woke” according to people who consider themselves woke, and then contrast that with what it means to be “woke” according to critics of that mindset.

Here’s a short video in which women describe what being “woke” means to them, from a time before the word was mostly transformed into a pejorative:

They describe it as being very aware of social injustice and being willing to speak up against it rather than passively accept it. OK, that seems like a good thing, fundamentally.

And here’s a description of what it means to be “woke” from Douglas Murray, which captures the current way in which it is typically used (generally by critics on the political right or center):

Murray’s POV is that people of the “woke” mindset mostly ignore the progress we’ve made over the last 50 years or so, that many of the “injustices” they claim to exist now are really imagined offenses and aren’t actually problems.
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@glynch breh is that you ?

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