> you might be racist

Please stop this. Every instance of someone referencing something that originated from a culture other than their own is not "appropriation" or "racism".

They're not talking about mere referencing, though. The problem is one of intentional redefinition in an attempt to counteract a movement. And indeed, the motivation for doing so is often racism.

"Woke" is a word, which describes/refers to a concept. The use of the word may be culturally and temporally specific (and that usage, like all use of language, may change over time), but the concept is one found in many different cultures and communities across time and space - put simply and broadly, the notion that one needs to "wake up" or "awaken" to what is actually happening. There are ways of describing this in many different languages. So while the current use of the word "woke" within the US may indeed be traced back to the African American community, the concept/idea has a much longer and broader history than that.

White supremacists are specifically attacking the 'black liberation' definition because it gained a worrying amount of traction among the global youth and the ruling class is not happy about that.

It's not a coincidence that the establishment in other major genocidal powers (ZA, AU, and UK) jumped on the anti-woke train early on to assist the US in fighting/redefining the concept.

Reminds me of a quote from a history prof, "The main problem with black history is it exposes too much of the fraud in white history... "

> you might be racist

On the contrary, I asked OP because often times when people talk about woke-agendas, they mean "I don't like seeing black or gay people in my movies", so I tend to wonder what they mean when they say woke.

'Woke' _primarily_ means roused from sleep.

Every other usage is metaphoric drift from that.

Casual and false accusations of racism are as wrong as racism itself.

>'Woke' _primarily_ means roused from sleep.

>Every other usage is metaphoric drift from that.

The global cultural influence of African Americans is massive, possibly bigger than any other single group in the US, even after centuries of gatekeeping. A notable style trait of Ebonics is purposely butchering English grammar.

Are you claiming you would use the past tense of 'wake' as the present tense (as in 'stay woke') without African Americans popularizing it? This may be the strangest claim I've heard recently.

BTW, redefining established civil rights concepts to undermine the people and movements tied to them is extremely racist...