It's a form of progressive ideology that is largely based on symbolic actions and relies on mechanisms like shame and shunning, struggle sessions, etc.

So instead of actually doing any sort of real tangible action to solve problems, you mostly spend your time denouncing your enemies, including the ones in your own ranks that are not pure enough.

It's very much associated with the left-wing parties in many Western countries, who have for the most part traded their historical defense of working classes for this new brand of performative progressive politics.

Definition of woke: alert to injustice in society, especially racism

Somehow, some folks are now saying this is bad.