Definitions for wokeness
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1. wokeness

   Woke ( WOHK) is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) meaning "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination". Beginning in the 2010s, it came to encompass a broader awareness of social inequalities such as sexism, and has also been used as shorthand for American Left ideas involving identity politics and social justice, such as the notion of white privilege and slavery reparations for African Americans. The phrase stay woke had emerged in AAVE by the 1930s, in some contexts referring to an awareness of the social and political issues affecting African Americans. The phrase was uttered in a recording by Lead Belly and later by Erykah Badu. Following the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, the phrase was popularised by Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists seeking to raise awareness about police shootings of African Americans. After seeing use on Black Twitter, the term woke became an Internet meme and was increasingly used by white people, often to signal their support for BLM, which some commentators have criticised as cultural appropriation. Mainly associated with the millennial generation, the term spread internationally and was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2017. The terms woke-washing and woke capitalism were coined to describe companies who signal support for progressive causes as a substitute for genuine change. By 2020, members of the political center and right wing in several Western countries were using the term woke, often in an ironic way, as an insult for various progressive or leftist movements and ideologies perceived as overzealous, performative, or insincere. In turn, some commentators came to consider it an offensive term with negative associations to those who promote political ideas involving identity and race.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of wokeness in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of wokeness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of wokeness in a Sentence

1. Said Hanson:

   Whatever aspect that we look at in wokeness, whether it’s gender or race or immigration, transgenderism, it does n’t have public support.

2. Fox News:

   I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue stoke anti-white racism.

3. Color Us United:

   American Express is the tip of the iceberg in terms of corporate wokeness.

4. Michael Stutman:

   I think that it is a rather astonishing extension of wokeness in now that the door seems to be opening that someone’s political viewpoint reflects on their fitness as a parent.

5. Ron DeSantis:

   I believe woke ideology is pernicious. I believe what’s at stake is not just ‘My policies are good,’ we should not all be suffering under the cloak of wokeness. … This issue with Disney is a good example of that. … They were basically a law unto themselves, and they got away with it for a long time because they were so powerful. They were the 800-pound gorilla, but they made the mistake of trying to stick their nose into sensitive matters involving children, involving education, and involving family.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wokeness