My understanding of woke is that a person who is woke is aware of the existence of racism, sexism, etc, and how the isms affect people's lives; understands that white men don't run things because they're better or smarter but because they've set up the world that way; and gets it that people who have suffered from bigotry are tired of it!
I've linked to a list of definitions that are so wonderfully subjective that they are perfect reminders how much we see the world from different sets of eyes.
My own 2 cents, for what it's worth (probably not even 2 cents): it's great that people are fighting for what they want and what they believe in, but it's a very short slippery slope to censorship. It's like when the Whitney hung a painting of Emmet Till painted by a white woman; the people who protested had every right to do so. But when they tried to get the Whitney to take the painting down and even destroy it, they went waaaaaay too far. The Whitney did neither. |
