Woke is shorthand for awoken, or awakening. It's generally used to signify an agreement (or at least understanding) of left leaning perspectives on civil rights.
Personally, despite my beliefs, I am not comfortable with corporations co-opting movements like LGBTQ pride on one hand (how many rainbow branded beer bottles have you seen this month?) and advocating policies that are diametrically opposed with the other.
>Personally, despite my beliefs, I am not comfortable with corporations co-opting movements like LGBTQ pride on one hand (how many rainbow branded beer bottles have you seen this month?) and advocating policies that are diametrically opposed with the other.
Yeah, this reminds me of when I went to the DC Pride parade last year and saw a bunch of floats and participants from various corporations: banks, airlines, etc. I'm all for accepting LGBT people, but the corporate-ness of the festivities really disturbed me. What's next, a Million Man march sponsored by Nike, or a women's march sponsored by Johnson&Johnson? I don't remember MLK needing corporate sponsorship when he did his marches.
This isn't about politics, it is about how the world economy is going to work and to what degree countries specialize versus protect certain industries IMO :)
Post WW2 there was a big movement to integrate world economies under the belief that countries don't go to war against their economic partners. I must admit I am a huge believer in this.
Now, under the leadership of the 80s and 90s, on both sides of the aisle this went too far and the USA probably needed to add some protection to its domestic labor market. IMO the EU navigated that better, but culturally they have always been less merc.
Anyway, this is where we are at, we now have people in power questioning that....
My worry is that that we will untangle this fantastic system, rather than tangle but in a smarter way and provide better domestic protections.
I would define it simply as a buzz word that silly people use to try to express a unique awareness and deeper understanding that no-one else can have of more liberal issues (racial, LBGTQ, social condition, etc...)
It should be noted that it seems to have had a remarkably short lifespan between hitting the mainstream and being widely used to mock the people who use it unironically. For context to this observation, my bias is that I think its straightforward meaning is mainly for confrontational moral grandstanders to signal their blue-tribe affiliation.
Something about liberals finally understanding what conservatives have been saying all along?