I think I first heard the word “woke” in a context which wasn’t connected with sleep in about 2017. I worked with a group of extremely talented and earnest young people, and at some point one of them engaged me in a conversation about whether the site they created was “woke enough”. I learned fast.
More recently it’s become a catch-all word for the kind of right wingers for whom the phrases “foaming at the gills” and “pub bore” were invented. Essentially, the way the right uses it is simply to mean “stuff I don’t like”, which can cover everything from weak beer to gay people and beyond.
This blog collects the most egregious examples of things which the right claim are “woke”, which are – of course – nothing of the kind. I might slip in some other right wing silliness as we go.