Woke is trending on Twitter. Upon review, I believe I'm woke AF. How about you?

[Dennis Donovan]

[niyad]

1. Absolutely virulent, raging case of that dangerous virus!! DAMNED PROUD,

hope it is contagious.

[Lovie777]

2. K&R......

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Woke here. And hope no Mengele finds a cure.

[orthoclad]

4. Left out class warfare.

[Takket]

5. i hear the only cure is a strict diet of evangelical pastors and Fox News

[kimbutgar]

6. I am proud to be woke or as I refer to myself is not ignorant and aware!

[brooklynite]

7. I'm not "woke"...

…because I don’t need a label to describe my civil rights opinions.

[Dennis Donovan]

10. Ugh. Forgot about you.

I'm leaving again.

[brooklynite]

33. If the point of posts here is "hey, lets all say we agree with something"...

...this would be a pretty dull place.

BTW, might want to check #32. Perhaps someone else needs a stern talking to?

[Polybius]

48. Add #47 to the list

[CousinIT]

8. 'Woke AF' is part of my Twitter PROFILE. So HELL YEA. n/t

[IA8IT]

9. If not it's my goal

[Cha]

11. Yeah, just values a lot

us grew up with. And, if we didn't we learned to value them along the way.

Fascists hate them bc they can't Rule the herd Otherwise.

[onecaliberal]

12. I am Extremely woke.

[Chainfire]

13. I may be critical.

[RKP5637]

14. Yes, I am super Woke as are most people I know! n/t

[hermetic]

15. Clearly

We are the Woke Folk.

[Sympthsical]

16. I am also an awesome person

Just ask me.

However, regarding the list . . . well, people like to believe these things about themselves.

How it all falls out in experience, however, is generally somewhat different.

[Irish_Dem]

17. Having a moral core/conscience is a disease. Being a sociopath is normal.

Welcome to 21st century America.

[sanatanadharma]

18. One can't 'really be here now' if one is not "woke"

Those who tell themselves otherwise are in self-denial and not-so-wise.

When asleep, only subjective dream-worlds exist.
To successfully share daytime reality with others, one must awaken.
"Unwoke" are those who sleep-walk through life bumping into things and expecting to be apologized to.

[gulliver]

19. That's "liberal."

Now, say we get a Dem convention of some sort together and vote on the above principles. We decide democratically that, henceforth, it is the position of the Dems that "woke" means those 10 principles (and only those 10), well, then we'd be talking. We could, in other words, recapture the meaning of the term and exclude from it all of the negative connotations that have been glommed onto "wokeness" by left and right self-elected term definers.

[ancianita]

21. I'm a liberal progressive Democrat; so yeah, woke is a label for a subset of that.

[judesedit]

20. Wide awake here

[Martin68]

22. Being and educated liberal is being woke.

[richdj25]

23. So glad to see that many are woke to the

status quo, which Republicans have been rejecting out of pure stupidity. Oh well - their loss. Here's where I discovered woke a long - long time ago....

Black American folk singer-songwriter Huddie Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly, used the phrase "stay woke" as part of a spoken afterword to a 1938 recording of his song "Scottsboro Boys", which tells the story of nine black teenagers and young men falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931..

In the recording, Lead Belly says he met with the defendant's lawyer and the young men themselves, and "I advise everybody, be a little careful when they go along through there (Scottsboro) – best stay woke, keep their eyes open."[4][12] Aja Romano writes at Vox that this usage reflects "Black Americans' need to be aware of racially motivated threats and the potential dangers of white America"

Republicans and many others don't even know what it means, which is a good thing. Just leave it be.

[txwhitedove]

24. Yep, card carrying Woke Liberal Tree Hugging Pacifist.

[MiHale]

25. K and freaking R.

[soldierant]

26. I'm woke, with one addendum to #5 -

It shouldn't need saying, but it doed - True equality must include being held equally accountable for bad behavior (actual, not imagined.)

[groundloop]

27. I've gotten more and more woke as I age.

In my 20s and early 30s I was kind of an asshole, thankfully in the several decades since then I've opened my eyes.

[YoshidaYui]

28. Yup, RON DESANTIS wouldn't like me

I AM PRO DISNEY, AND WOKE AF~~

[NewHendoLib]

29. Given that, I am super duper max woke

[Iggo]

31. I like things that white racists hate. I am woke as fuck.

[calimary]

32. I woke up at 11am.

I refuse to use the enemy’s word-bastardization.

If it’s used, it gets spread. I will not help them spread their stupid memes. Especially when they’re grammatically incorrect.

[GopherGal]

34. Also: 11. You are not afraid of pronouns.

I got pronounce, and I'm not afraid to use them!

[tavernier]

35. Ugh I hate that word!

Why do we always need a word when the words we already have…intelligent, aware, thoughtful, concerned… are as good and better. I don’t like to be labeled with some made up shorthand word.

[Raine]

36. + 1 👍 nt

[Celerity]

39. 'Woke' originates from 1920s and 30s American black vernacular English.

moving forward in time, here is a NYT article from 1962:


If You're Woke You Dig It; No mickey mouse can be expected to follow today's Negro idiom without a hip assist. If You're Woke You Dig It

By William Melvin Kelley
May 20, 1962




https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-mouse-can-be-expected-to-follow.html

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/05/20/140720532.pdf

[tavernier]

46. So does 23 Skidoo (originate from 20's) but I'm not saying that either.

But thanks for the article; good read.

[Celerity]

50. Actually it's earlier for 23 skidoo, and my issue is the RW attempt to gaslight and project hate via

redefining and stigmatising woke to have a go at social justice and tolerant, pluralistic democracy itself..

I do not use woke at all myself, nor am I saying you (or anyone else) should.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_skidoo

23 skidoo (sometimes 23 skiddoo) is an American slang phrase generally referring to leaving quickly, being forced to leave quickly by someone else, or taking advantage of a propitious opportunity to leave. Popularized during the early 20th century, the exact origin of the phrase is uncertain.

23 skidoo has been described as "perhaps the first truly national fad expression and one of the most popular fad expressions to appear in the U.S", to the extent that "Pennants and arm-bands at shore resorts, parks, and county fairs bore either or the word 'Skiddoo'."

"23 skidoo" combines two earlier expressions, "twenty-three" (1899) and "skidoo" (1901), both of which, independently and separately, referred to leaving, being kicked out, or the end of something. "23 skidoo" quickly became a popular catchphrase after its appearance in early 1906.

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[tavernier]

52. Oh, ok.

I was born shortly after that so I didn’t know the exact date.

[Initech]

37. I scored a 10/10!

And I also actively block all right wing sources on social media, because fuck that shit!

[DFW]

38. I'm all ten, but I'm more KLM than AF

(Didn‘t get the AF part. The only AF I know is Air France.)

[LAS14]

42. Me too. Can someone explain AF? nt

[Lars39]

45. AF...

“As F@ck”

[Lars39]

44. AF...

“As F@ck”

[RobinA]

40. This Is NOT

the way I hear "woke" being used. I am not and will never be "woke." I also don't engage in the current labelfication of freakin' everything.

[LAS14]

43. I sort of agree. That's why I was glad to see a list of often nuanced principles. nt

[LAS14]

41. Great list of principles!! I'm on board. nt

[Polybius]

47. I agree with most of those, but not all

I'm far from woke.

[Hortensis]

49. That is a GOOD list. It's also effectively defining of the LIBERAL mind. nt

[Renew Deal]

51. I do not care for mosquitos

And will annihilate them at any opportunity. Does that make me not woke?