Polite.

"Woke" can now mean anything you want it to mean, it's just a dismissive buzzword that you can levy against people you don't like. Predominantly people on the right of the political spectrum throwing it at people left of them.

A guy recently called sportsmanship woke, for instance. Though he did start the call with "I'm no into this integrity", so may or may not be representative of the people who throw the word around, depending on how you lean.

https://twitter.com/ClydeSSB/status/1625446337201283076?s=20...

It was a term people - mostly minorities in the US - used back in 2015. Being woke means being conscious of the broader social context you are operating in and the ways it influences your thoughts and actions and those of the people around you. Not a while lot different from the whole “red pill” concept. Only prior to 2016 “woke” was only used by cool people - as opposed to incels in PUA forums (heh). Proper usage would have been something like, “Stay woke brother. Don’t let these mfs get you going sideways”.

Sometime after 2016 it got picked up by lame people - i.e the type who wanted to censor 2LiveCrew back in the day - and now it any time you hear someone using the term “woke” it is a pretty strong indicator that they are lame and utterly devoid of swagger. Like 100x more cringe than saying “yeet” or dabbing on fools in 2023.

The meaning of woke is:

"aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues"

At this point, the word "woke" has been so thoroughly corrupted by malicious interpretation and bad-faith usage that I assume anyone using it is a right-wing troll.