I've been begging conservatives online to please define what they mean by "woke", but when asked, they all refuse. It's probably because they just don't really know, they're just swept up in the fun of hateful rhetoric shared with their gang.
"All the cool kids are saying 'woke sucks' and i do too, because I'm also COOL!"
But i think many don't really know what they're saying except to express "fuck the darkies, homos and liberals", without admitting it.
I think I've finally come up with a definition, but it's critical to understand where the term came from and what its original meaning is.
The term "woke" was first used by black students on college campuses around 2016. It was almost like "hip" used specifically for social and political issues.
Being "woke" meant being hip to, sensitive to and aware of, social issues like racism among the police and other institutions.
So it really means that you're aware, and sympathetic to, issues of discrimination that plague minorities, especially systemic.
A new word for an old concept, and only intended as a positive.
Somewhere at some time its meaning broadened to include other classifications of marginalized people, such as LGBT, meaning gay and trans people.
Conservatives and right-wingers have been openly bitter for decades about PC, political correctness, that forbids among other things the open use of slurs referring to marginalized classes.
This started the push for "free speech" on the right, which to them means the freedom to say literally anything in public, including referring to black people as "n*ggers" and gay people as "f*gs".
Or to promulgate bigoted characterizations, such as "black people are lazy", and "gay people are pedophiles", etc.
If this kind of language bothers you, you're a "snowflake", meaning you're picky and over-sensitive.
A corollary of this is the so-called "death of comedy", because PC has supposedly become so restrictive comedians are afraid to say anything that's not "safe", which greatly hinders the explorative nature of comedy.
Personally i believe that if your comedy depends on deprecating others, you're not really funny. PC never constrained George Carlin in the slightest.
After using the term "PC" for decades, the right overheard black people using the term "woke", and since they hate black people, they decided to co-opt that word and apply it in the most negative way possible.
It's originally a type of sarcasm, as in telling someone "your hair looks... FANTASTIC!" when you really mean "terrible". But now to them "woke" is just bad, no sarcasm necessary.
Interestingly they didn't really change the definition at all, they just assert that the traits it describes are not positive and affirming as the original usage intended, but a very negative trend of denying and perverting "traditional values".
Traditional values being you must be straight, white, and Christian, and no variations are acceptable.
Since they believe that the social concerns of black and LGBT people are misguided and wrong, being "woke" is also wrong.
The right has long tried to assert an "innocent" idea that society should be "colorblind", judging people by the "content of their character", so that to acknowledge race in any way is RACIST.
So now all liberals/progressives are racist for addressing systemic racism.
They want to assert that society has turned a corner and CONQUERED RACISM, that it's just not a thing anymore, which is self-serving and laughable.
Basically conservatives believe that they got superiority in society, and they don't want to give it up, so they're declaring this the new baseline.
Wherever anyone is now is natural and fair.
So the original hashtag, "#staywoke", has been corrupted to "#gowokegobroke", meaning supporting the ideas that certain minority groups are stigmatized and treated unfairly in our culture will result in your destruction, because racism is now a false issue that is only a socio-political tool of the left.
A related distortion can help in understanding the whole conservative mindset.
To liberal progressives, a "Social Justice Warrior", or "SJW", is a "woke" person who is active in supporting marginalized people. People who demonstrate for BLM are SJWs, they recognize AND take action.
So the right take this to a ridiculous extreme and define an SJW as someone who gets hysterical if they notice the pickiest unintentional breach of social propriety, such as if you display a cultural symbol wrong, or seem to be engaging in "cultural appropriation".
They would include in this category someone who throws a complete fit if they are inadvertently misgendered by mistake.
Things like this do happen but fringe people like this are rare, and in actual practice most people don't complain about being misgendered unless it seems deliberate or malicious; people usually just say "no, I'm a 'she'", and then the other person says "sorry" and it's over with.
But right-wingers are TERRIFIED of this, and believe that there are people ask around them rest to jump on them for the slightest mistake.
I've talked to such people online, who worry about things that they've never actually seen.
It's like gun people who are always afraid of violent crime even though they've never actually seen any.
But there is another major area of distortion.
Minority people and people on the left have long decried the very real phenomenon of minorities being harassed and singled out by the police in "racial profiling", with "crimes" like "DWB", or "Driving While Black", in which cops harass black people for things they leave white people alone.
It's clearly wrong to do this and there are laws against such racial profiling, but white conservatives are still bitter that they're not free to discriminate against black and LGBT people because, as we know, they believe such people are INFERIOR, and they are determined to abuse them.
So to aggressively fight this kind of "dangerous fairness", they have re-interpreted "social justice".
Instead of recognizing the need to acknowledge and oppose oppressing people because of their race, right-wingers say that liberals believe that black people who commit crimes should be let off for their crimes.
Instead of accepting that it's wrong to arrest someone for a robbery just because they're black, right-wingers say that we liberals want to let all black people who actually commit robbery go free BECAUSE they're black.
Since we think we should be sensitive to systemic racism they think we mean to simply give people legal immunity because of their dark skin.
It's bizarre.
The obvious projection and irony is that white people are commonly actually given immunity because of their LIGHT skin, but that's never acknowledged.
"Officer, it's an accident that i didn't pay, and why are you hassling me, can't you see I'm WHITE, not a black-skinned thief?"
So conservatives are bitter about "wokeness" because it knocks them off the high ground they believe is their birthright, and forces them to live on the same level as everyone else, including lowly blacks and LGBT sexual perverts.
And no matter how "modern" these people try to pass as, deep down they are still looking forward to a future where minorities are kicked back down to an inferior social position, because they ARE inferior and that's where they belong.
Hence, "Make America Great Again": push blacks back to the ghettos and homos, and especially trans, back to the closets, like back in the good old days.
(A really disturbing recent development is GAY people against TRANS. Always something new and horrible.)
So "woke" actually has the same meaning it always had, except that conservatives openly express that they believe sensitivity to bigotry and prejudice is not just misguided but destructive to society.
Modern conservatism is a genuine sickness.