wokeism
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From woke (“left-wing on social justice issues”) + -ism (forms names of movements, doctrines, etc.).
Noun
[edit]wokeism (countable and uncountable, plural wokeisms)
- (uncountable, chiefly derogatory) The purported ideology of "wokeness", of holding social-justice-oriented or left-wing views or attitudes, especially in a way that is deemed overzealous, performative, or insincere.
- 2018 July 7, Joel Kotkin, “Watch Out! Here Come the ‘Woke’ Tech Oligarchs”, in The Daily Beast[1]:
- With his horrendous comments and awful actions, Trump has accelerated wokeism among the wealthy and their minions.
- 2021, 23 June, The Daily Telegraph (p. 19): David Goodhart, Has wokeism crushed the working class?
- (countable, derogatory) A word or expression that is woke.
- 2024, Helen Pluckrose, The Counterweight Handbook:
- Whereas companies once used the term "civil rights movement" when discussing issues of social justice, their language shifted in 2015 and became dominated by "wokeisms" such as "allyship" "diversity equity," "equity and inclusion," and "racial justice."
- 2024, Bruce Wagner, The Met Gala & Tales of Saints and Seekers:
- Many of them are leaving us — the words. Gone into hiding […] Now they lurk, uncaged, behind other words, behind trending, brittle, bloodless little wokeisms […]
Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:wokeism.