wokeism

Sometimes wok·ism

[wohk-iz-uhm]

noun

1. Usually Disparaging.,  promotion of liberal progressive ideology and policy as an expression of sensitivity to systemic injustices and prejudices.

   She worked for nearly a decade at the university before she finally tired of the influence of wokeism.

   “The only religion allowed around here is wokeism,” he complained.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wokeism¹

First recorded in 2021; woke ( def. ) + -ism ( def. )

Example Sentences

The footnotes lay bare parties' red lines around the term "gender" -- some longstanding, others part of a rising right-wing tide opposed to so-called "wokeism."

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Mr. Steele finds this refreshing: “The vanity of ‘wokeism’ under Joe Biden was that it could mold people and literally make a better world.

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The right rode to power by attacking what it denigrates at “wokeism” on the left.

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The piece argues that Republicans are being hypocritical given their attacks on “cancel culture” and “wokeism”—they cannot simultaneously claim that deplatforming is oppressive while refusing to condemn actual Nazis.

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Two days before his death, Kirk retweeted a video of himself saying a “spiritual battle is coming for the West,” with “wokeism or marxism combining with Islamism” to go after “the American way of life, which is, by the way, Christendom.”

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