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[[File:Woke Nazis.jpg|right|150px|thumb|"Germany Awaken" (''Deutschland Erwache'') was the slogan of "enlightened" Nazis.<ref>https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/02/ivy-league-wokes-are-biggest-supporters-political-daniel-greenfield/</ref>]]

[[File:Woke Nazis.jpg|right|150px|thumb|"Germany Awaken" (''Deutschland Erwache'') was the slogan of "enlightened" Nazis.<ref>https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/02/ivy-league-wokes-are-biggest-supporters-political-daniel-greenfield/</ref>]]

'''Woke''', "adjective (woker, wokest) informal alert to injustice and discrimination in society, especially racism: we need to stay angry, and stay woke; does being woke mean I have to agree with what all other woke folks say should be done about issues in the black community?the West Coast has the wokest dudes. [1960s: originally in [[African American]] usage (''OED'').

'''Woke''', "adjective (woker, wokest) informal alert to injustice and discrimination in society, especially racism: we need to stay angry, and stay woke; does being woke mean I have to agree with what all other woke folks say should be done about issues in the black community? the West Coast has the wokest dudes. 1960s: originally in [[African American]] usage" (''OED'').

To be woke or awake stems from the [[Age of Enlightenment]], when "enlightened" [[atheist]]s rejected [[God]], challenged the [[Divine Right of Kings]], and started the [[calendar]] over at the Year 1.  By the 1920s and 1930s, "enlightened" [[Nazi]]s regarded God and [[Jesus Christ]] as a "Jewish conspiracy" that even [[Jews]] and [[Marxist]]s did not believe in.  Woke "knowledge" is [[esoteric]], for example holding firm the maxim that "[[religion]] is the [[opiate]] of the masses."  So once a "true believer" casts off the opiate, they become "woke", "awake", or "enlightened."  David Greenfield describes it as "a cultish term for a political cult that reframes [[extremism]] as a revelation."

To be woke or awake stems from the [[Age of Enlightenment]], when "enlightened" [[atheist]]s rejected [[God]], challenged the [[Divine Right of Kings]], and started the [[calendar]] over at the Year 1.  By the 1920s and 1930s, "enlightened" [[Nazi]]s regarded God and [[Jesus Christ]] as a "Jewish conspiracy" that even [[Jews]] and [[Marxist]]s did not believe in.  Woke "knowledge" is [[esoteric]], for example holding firm the maxim that "[[religion]] is the [[opiate]] of the masses."  So once a "true believer" casts off the opiate, they become "woke", "awake", or "enlightened."  David Greenfield describes it as "a cultish term for a political cult that reframes [[extremism]] as a revelation."