>>Woke just seems to be to be alongside the handmaidens 'politically correct' and 'virtue signalling' as signing a view that equality has gone too far and needs to be wound back.
I don't understand the reference to "handmaidens". As usual, apologies if I'm being dense.
As with all these things though, motivation matters a lot. Flagging an injustice because you see an injustice and think it wrong is admirable.
Political correctness can be valuable, certainly it was, but it can also be harmful.
Flagging what one represents as an injustice because one wants to be seen to do so, but without particularly caring about the injustice is, typically, virtue signalling and I think is appalling and devalues the important message.
As for "woke" I'm not quite sure of the exact meaning. I realise it's used in a sneering fashion quite often, but on the other hand it also seems like a good thing to be.
So I resort to judging the motivations again. Which is actually the most important thing anyway, I think.
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