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Re:What it means to teach gifted learners well by jacobolus on Thursday January 20, 2022 @07:35AM (#30008095)
The definition of "woke" is like the definition of "hipster". Whatever these words might originally have meant in some narrow context, they are now used as vague condescending insults for a broad range of people the person speaking doesn’t like.

Find 10 people opposed to “woke” and you’ll get 12 or 13 distinct explanations/criteria for the term.

If you substitute “poopyhead” for “woke” across the internet it won’t substantively change the meaning of anything you read.

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Re:What it means to teach gifted learners well by barrkel on Thursday January 20, 2022 @08:23AM (#30008529)
That's not right. Woke is an adjective form of SJW (Social Justice Warrior) and almost exclusively used by people who disparage people interested in social justice in a sneering way. It is meant to be insulting but it does have meaning.
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Re:What it means to teach gifted learners well by jacobolus on Thursday January 20, 2022 @02:57PM (#30013887)
It’s not that these words have no meaning. The problem is that the meaning is vague and changes depending on the speaker and context, so that to the reader/listener it is generally impossible to tell quite what meaning is intended. The word says more about the identity politics of the user than it does about the target.

If you want a more detailed analysis of current usage, https://ctrlzmag.com/series-what-is-woke-4-the-decline/

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Re:What it means to teach gifted learners well by wizzwizz4 on Thursday January 20, 2022 @09:15AM (#30009161)
> Find 10 people opposed to “woke” and you’ll get 12 or 13 distinct explanations/criteria for the term.

You gave a different definition to upthread.

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