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Wokeness

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A term referring to progressive social and political awareness, particularly around identity issues, discussed in the context of its supposed decline or persistence in culture and politics.

Mentions (86)
"People seem way more hateful and bigoted than they did in 2015. Everyone that got 'cancelled' is back, some even bigger than before. It's hilarious to have lived through that time and watch how it basically managed to achieve nothing and only made life shittier for everyone."
"Her lib roommate said 'Yeah but Italians are white' (which is a weird fucking comment for another white girl to make in that situation imo nobody was talking about race just ethnicity) & I said 'Hmmm are they? Debatable!' & she got super serious listing off physical characteristics of italians/their"
Got scolded irl for joking about Italians not being white · u/[deleted] · ↑188 · 2021-04-04
"Jury's still out on my side on what will culturally be worse in the end - the lib resistance era or the alt right pastiche we are witnessing"
Was owning the libs worth it? · u/blurbubble · ↑783 · 2025-01-20
"I guess the wokes would argue that he should stay in his lane and that it's wrong of him to write the n word or whatever."
"Can't like avengers, or be fat, or too woke, etc."
Opinion: it's extremely cringe to try to separate normies from not normies · u/Redscarethrowaway116 · ↑316 · 2022-04-29
"the anti-woke backlash is very played out atp"
The Jaguar rebrand is so unbelievably bad · u/subject_2_change · ↑304 · 2024-11-21
"it was the peak of Fight Song/Hamilton era woke neoliberalism"
2016 nostalgia is weird and wrong · u/taxmanangel · ↑302 · 2026-01-17
"I open her insta story today to her squealing about getting a new pair of SHOELACES which say "you live on native land" as she says "for the airforces 🥺." I'm not even sure what level this is on the smarmy performative woke scale anymore."
"It seems like this year woke stuff become a bit less in vogue and people are starting to tire of it"
Is wokeness on the decline? · u/billuminati99 · ↑222 · 2022-12-03
"Bare minimum, I'd like to meet a woman I could date, just someone who likes cools interesting things and culturally can be a normal/not overbearingly woke individual"
"I can't be the only one who thinks Liberal Wokeness is kind of overblown by this sub right?"
"this sub has become a prime example of how you get so obsessed with anti wokeness that you become a republican"
"Thought you guys might appreciate the derogation of wokescolding from the standpoint of a lesbian farmer who happens to be my fav fanfic writer."
The apocalypse is now (so fuck ideological purity) · u/SimplyNigh · ↑122 · 2023-08-09
"i think i redpilled myself on liberalism/woke culture when i began to notice all the parallels between my super woke friends and the fundamentalist cult/community i was raised with"
liberals = fundamentalists · u/[deleted] · ↑118 · 2021-02-10
"Wildfires? Woke, check out this video of a woman firefighter Plane crash? Woke, DEI, check out this black pilot Government inefficiency? Woke DEI hires, we need more tax cuts and austerity You need to believe this, little piggy. It's all because of woke."
Everything under the sun is because of woke · u/yeahicreatedsomethin · ↑111 · 2025-01-30
"That way the incels can get a foot in the door of the woke industrial complex or whatever, and they might even get some pussy out of it"
Incel pride · u/DJCubs · ↑92 · 2025-07-13
"I'm trying not to reduce it to 'woke' but that's more or less what it is. Books about transgender athletes, books about black hair, weird books that try to turn 7 year olds into political activists."
What's with kid's books nowadays? · u/Last-Butterscotch-85 · ↑87 · 2025-12-01
"I remember being taken aback by how, for all its supposed wokeness, basic interventions like rent control couldn't be implemented."
"It feels like the moment where wokeness began to lose steam but before the right could conjure up their own unhinged response."
The majority of 2021 is such a bizzare cultural moment in hindsight · u/CarsonBeckisUgly · ↑86 · 2025-09-30
"It essentially means 'manipulative and anti-social tendencies done with the veneer of socially progressive rhetoric.' That's it, it's not some decontextualized logic puzzle."
Every discussion about "wokeness" pisses me off · u/ZuitSoots · ↑84 · 2024-03-29
"Like there's no DEI woketards there, you can retvrn right now."
"I used to be woke and now I lowkey don't fuck with the libs, I feel like a fraud in my social scene"
gym made me male brained · u/kabbalahqt · ↑83 · 2025-05-27
""Decolonize" is the new "woke""
"Decolonize" is the new "woke" · u/RatsoRat · ↑82 · 2023-11-06
"created a toxic cocktail that birthed cancel culture and some of the most intense wokescolding the internet has seen"
The TikTok ban will throw the online ecosystem out of balance · u/MckinleyTariff · ↑81 · 2025-01-18
""Woke is dead" is a phrase people throw around a lot, but I honestly just don't see it anywhere. Popular media is as sanctimonious about social issues as ever, liberal and progressive politics still centre around identity"
When did wokeism supposedly die · u/lilaccalendula · ↑81 · 2026-01-29
"Stupidpol and occasionally this sub really hold on to the idea that wokeness is something the upper-middle class touts in order to distinguish themselves from lower class whites"
wokeness as class signifier · u/[deleted] · ↑80 · 2020-10-21
"Woke politics is about salaciousness and titillation, like, people are curious about how fat or trans people fuck"
Listening to ep 126: Sephoria (Oct. 8, 2019) - it's a banger · u/DiscoDingoDoggo · ↑79 · 2022-08-22
"I'm a millennial who has never really adopted wokeness but am fascinated with the grip it's had on my people."
Is wokeness a Millennial phenomenon? · u/c0ffin_ship · ↑72 · 2024-11-07
"Academia is totally broken, although the University of Austin board has more-or-less the same economic interests as universities who use wokeness as their preferred tool for implementing austerity and social control"
What is your opinion of the whole University of Austin thing? · u/rulesaremultiform · ↑69 · 2021-11-09
"are these bitches really conservative or do they just hate neo-liberal wokeism so much they've adopted the aesthetics of its exact antithesis ??"
wtf do these broads really believe · u/bavi_n_ck · ↑68 · 2023-02-27
"Obviously this sub is categorised as being 'anti-woke' - do you think you would be able to explain to someone (like minded or not) what it means to be anti-woke and why you have anti-woke leanings?"
"If you only consume mass produced slop like AAA videogames and superhero movies you have no right to complain about wokeness"
"not sure how yet but i'm gonna start describing shit as woke and see what sticks"
i'm reclaiming woke · u/db-c00p3r · ↑61 · 2023-08-26
"using the term woke for everything and I've started using it at any inconvenience like if I see a shop is closing early in my mind I'll think 'utter woke nonsense'"
I love talking like a conservative commentator · u/WachUwan0 · ↑57 · 2025-01-16
"I know that the pendulum always swings and we're seeing a response to the wokeness that has consumed culture for the past decade"
Will things ever be normal? · u/MNigusse · ↑55 · 2026-02-02
"Does it ever feel like woke culture is ruining art for you? Idk if it's because the only art I'm exposed to lately is through a screen but I'm finding it frustrating and exhausting how so much art has to be woke now or the artist has to be woke."
Making art · u/pink_pothos · ↑54 · 2021-04-16
"Woke is evolving"
Just a little guy · u/between_sheets · ↑54 · 2026-01-15
"basically most of my friends would describe themselves as "woke" and are always eager to jump on the cancel culture train"
"No smart phones, no woke culture, people not broken with anxiety and depression"
Insomniac with Dave Attell documented the last time America was fun · u/triangle-orbit · ↑53 · 2021-08-16
"Like in a few decades everyone will be all like damn, haha yeah we got a bit intense for a bit there lol, sorry about that"
"Its an apparently top-tier global global university, and just after I made my previous post about woke girls"
Woke Uni Update · u/999lonely · ↑53 · 2023-10-21
"Before the election there was an increasing tolerance for rightoids because the implicit assumption of this sub was that we live in a wokestopia where nothing ever happens"
State of the Sub · u/Expensive_Truth_4138 · ↑53 · 2025-09-24
"I've never met a man that legitimately cares about woke shit"
I've never met a man that legitimately cares about woke shit · u/cscareersthrowaway13 · ↑51 · 2020-12-25
"this brand of half-assed wokescolding belongs in our rear view mirror"
"The only two options we're allowed in America are "bootlicking, Christian capitalist" or "thought policing, Wokeian demsoc.""
AntiWoke Leftism · u/[deleted] · ↑50 · 2021-09-10
"wokies and conservatives have rendered me retarded"
Is anyone else getting dumber? · u/CuckFandango · ↑48 · 2019-11-03
"I suppose you could say similar stuff about insta infographic sharing performative woke types"
"White boys, already alienated by the woke cultural zeitgeist, are now content to sit on their couch with Tinder, weed, beer, and their sports and vidya."
The legalization of sports betting changed something · u/SherlockHouse69 · ↑48 · 2025-12-29
"Like writing "F*ck" instead of "Fuck." It's not even a slur/potentially triggering terminology."

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