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People on the internet give me shit for the "woke" word, even though its meaning has really been lost right now into the bs american culture wars, while it was originally used in a positive mater it kinda has turned the other way around to describe a piece of media that has been compromised due to forced inclussion of a side message or hint of it to appear inclusive, and it feels manipulative and corporate aproved just for the sake of cheking demografic boxes for either trying to apeal to more demographics in a nearsighted way or just so that they get more money from weirdo investors like black rock or some other clowns. I like using it due to it describing very well what i just wrote in a single word, not because i dont agree with inclussion (i do), but most of the time its made in a corporate nearsighted way that ends up doing more damage than good.
Spot on, depending on context it takes on slightly different meanings. I feel like its use to call out corporate pandering in order to paint themselves in a good/progressive way to the rest of the public eye, solely because they realized it would artificially boost their bottom line, is justified
The vast majority of people frothing about woke can't even begin to define it. I call them sleeple.