unwoke

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Not having been woken.

2. 2

   Not woke, especially in social justice contexts.

   • Today’s culture war is being waged not between religion and secularism but between groups that the Catholic writer Matthew Schmitz has described as “the woke and the unwoke.”
3. 3

   To remove woke or socially progressive influence from (something)

   To remove woke or socially progressive influence from (something); to make unwoke.

   • It would of course be premature to declare that Swinney's policy reset amounts to the "unwoking" of the Scottish government.
   • Kahn put it more bluntly, saying "this is wielding a sledgehammer in a crowded restaurant: 'We've decided CBS is too woke — and we're going to unwoke it'."
   • After a call with White House officials and a logo change earlier this week, the company unwoked itself to President Trump's liking.

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