Wokeism

//ˈwəʊkɪzəm//

"Wokeism" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Islam will remain an impregnable fortress against wokeism.

Islam will remain an impregnable fortress against the tyranny of wokeism.

Welcome to the era of wokeism.

Wokeism is all about reputation destruction.

Wokeism is all about the destruction of the reputation of anyone who has views different from yours.

Wokeism is a danger to the freedom of speech.

Wokeism is a danger to our civilization.

Wokeism is a huge danger to the human civilization.

Wokeism is tyranny.

Don't be intimidated by wokeism.

Ansari demonstrates how wokeism is both self-serving and self-perpetuating by simply acting as a vehicle for the privileged to “outwoke” each other while really doing nothing at all to change the reality which creates various forms of social inequality.

For my part, I have no problem with sports woke-ism. I never thought taking a knee was the most provocative social-justice statement. But I’m also a die-hard football fan who will sit through almost anything to watch Patrick Mahomes perform his magic.

Whereas companies once used the term "civil rights movement" when discussing issues of social justice, their language shifted in 2015 and became dominated by "wokeisms" such as "allyship" "diversity equity," "equity and inclusion," and "racial justice."

Many of them are leaving us — the words. Gone into hiding […] Now they lurk, uncaged, behind other words, behind trending, brittle, bloodless little wokeisms […]

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