The term "woke" has a sordid history and has been "abused" by both sides of the political aisle.
It began as slang among young people who considered themselves wise and "awakened" (usually seeing discrimination where there was none), when in fact they were just as meritlessly self-righteous and delusional as all young people have been throughout history, who think they know better than their elders, blind to the reality that they're just immature and don't know what they don't know.
Unfortunately for society some who should have known better encouraged propagation of this mindset for political purposes.
Because of the absurdity of that origin it was fairly quickly coopted, mostly by those on the Right, with a facetious usage to denote people who thought of themselves that way (some not so young, but either just as delusional or using it as a political tool). It then just as quickly morphed into an overused, overexaggerated term applied to anything and everything those on the Right didn't like.
In light of that, it probably has been rendered meaningless (and probably always was), even if spawned from good, albeit misguided intentions. Somewhat akin to terms "racist" and "fascist". Although they at one time did possess meaning, they've long since been rendered as moot as "woke", if not more so, due to the same type of overusage and exaggeration (primarily by those on the Left).
Bottom line: ideologues will be ideologues, and will always dig in deeper to the extent of achieving counterproductivity.
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Never believe or disbelieve. Always question. Rebuke bias, a.k.a. groupthink, a.k.a. ideology, the bane of skeptical, logical reason.
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