” In its modern-day, politicised context, ‘woke‘ is defined by the OED as ‘originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice’.”
I’m guilty of being ‘woke’ I guess. I try and care about things, I’ve always questioned why people can’t get on. When I was a child in the 1960’s I remember I asked why people were nasty to brown people and not pink ones?
But recently ‘woke’ seems to be being used as an insult. Like you can be too ‘woke’ to be interested in helping others? Too caring? Why? Why is it OK to tell someone off because they are too politically correct, or disagree with populist ideas? The world seems to get more selfish by the day.
I don’t think everyone should agree with me, I can agree to disagree. But what do you do when someone constantly disagrees with you? Or dismisses what you say. Even when I’d agreed to disagree a person who I’m not naming kept digging. Recently they started to call me a snowflake and woke. I said I was pleased to be a snowflake as we can gather together and turn into a blizzard! I don’t want to stop being in touch with this person as it means I’m not totally in my own bubble. But I do wonder if I should unfollow them. The world seems to lack altruism, everyone is in it for themselves, hopefully the tide will turn.
Mallaband-Brown 
These days it seems like everything gets a label and based on the label, people think they know something. I don’t engage with people who attack me. Why would I want to?
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I agree I think, I try and see both sides of an argument but sometimes people don’t ‘play fairly’ as my mother used to tell us
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Not every argument has two sides. There is such a thing as an “irrational appeal to tolerance” and it is a legit logical fallacy.
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Yes…. I hadn’t thought about that… Cheers
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You’re a snowflake? I’m a boomer. Also used in a derogatory way, as in “ok boomer”. Don’t let it bug you. We shall see how tough your generation is because you all will be tested somehow. I expect the snowflakes will do fine. I’m not familiar with the current use of the word woke.
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Best thing about snowflakes.. They can turn into blizzards x
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Yeah, they can be bad if they all join up! hahah
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😊
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