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 The word "woke" started among the African-American community; black people used it as a way of being socially and politically aware. For example, knowing when a politician was lying/fabricating/exaggerating during a speech or foreshadowing the negative implications of gentrification.  However, like most things that come from the African-American community, once it made the mainstream, others (typically those of power, money and/or influence) adopted and adapted it to their own end. Now, "woke" is taking to mean using identity politics and virtue signaling to the point of annoyance.  Again, being truly woke is not about political correctness, it's about political awareness. Take the word back. 

Quoth the Raven : Ravens use their beaks and wings much like humans rely on our hands to make gestures, such as for pointing to an object, scientists now find. This is the first time researchers have seen gestures used in this way in the wild by animals other than primates. From the age of 9 to 12 months, human infants often use gestures to direct the attention of adults to objects, or to hold up items so that others can take them. These gestures, produced before children speak their first words, are seen as milestones in the development of human speech .

Goes to show that not everyone's perfect . SYDNEY (AFP) – An Australian physicist has uncovered an error in dictionary definitions that has likely stood uncorrected for a century. University of Queensland academic Stephen Hughes found that entries for the word 'siphon' incorrectly said atmospheric pressure is the force that allows the device to move liquids from one place to another. "It is gravity that moves the fluid in a siphon, with the water in the longer downward arm pulling the water up the shorter arm," he said. "An extensive check of online and offline dictionaries did not reveal a single dictionary that correctly referred to gravity being the operative force in a siphon," he added. Hughes, whose fields of study include astronomy, meteors, planets and the moon, said he first found the error in the Oxford English Dictionary last year.

He keeps hitting it, like P. Diddy in the 90's: