The content of Woke mind virus was merged into Woke on 3 May 2024. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that location, see its talk page.
A fact from Woke appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 January2017(check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Bloomberg Businessweek asked, "Is Wikipedia woke?"
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Brett, Conor (2025). "'We have watched the woke monster destroy everything': gender and affect in the construction of wokeness on reactionary YouTube". Feminist Media Studies: 1–17. doi:10.1080/14680777.2024.2446303. ISSN1471-5902. Full text via Wikipedia Library(registration required).
Lazić, Gordana (2025). "Rhetoric of Social Conflict". In Samoilenko, Sergei A.; Simmons, Solon (eds.). The Handbook of Social and Political Conflict. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons. pp.107–117. doi:10.1002/9781119895534.ch10. ISBN978-1-119-89549-7. Full text via Wikipedia Library(registration required).
Postill, John (2024). "Woke politics". The Anthropology of Digital Practices: Dispatches from the Online Culture Wars. New York: Routledge. pp.14–26. doi:10.4324/9781003335238-2. ISBN978-1-003-85133-2.
Steel, John (2023). "Free speech, 'Cancel Culture' and the 'War on Woke'.". In Steel, John; Petley, Julian (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship (1sted.). London: Routledge. pp.232–244. doi:10.4324/9780429262067-25. ISBN978-0-429-26206-7.
Tebaldi, Catherine (2025). Alt-Education: Gender, Knowledge and Far-right Metapolitics (1sted.). London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781032704319. ISBN978-1-032-70431-9. (Chapters 6 & 8 describe the "war on woke" in the US and the UK.)
Valentin, Pierre (2023). "The Woke Phenomenon: Its Impact and Different Responses". In Zúquete, José Pedro (ed.). The Palgrave Handbook of Left-Wing Extremism, Volume 2. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp.313–326. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-36268-2_17. ISBN978-3-031-36268-2. Full text via Wikipedia Library(registration required).
Latest comment: 10 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Is also used for liberal zionism. The cancel culture of the Right when people are critical of Israel and end up cancelled. That is also called Woke right. Inayity (talk) 17:57, 9 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
Not done. I checked, and the BLM protests talked about on this page were indeed in the teens, although of course there have also beem protests in this decade. --Tryptofish (talk) 18:09, 28 August 2026 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 12 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion
@Tryptofish: I feel like this edit doesn't accurately capture the conclusion of the paper which states. "Republicans are more likely to identify items on the list as “woke” if they are implicitly associated with the Democratic Party". The paper also doesn't discuss emotional salience. ◦ Sibshops (talk) 22:45, 12 October 2026 (UTC)Reply
I think that you're right, thanks. I misinterpreted the way the source refers to "salience". The reason that I felt the need to revise it was that "Republicans associated it more strongly with positions aligned with the Democratic Party" seemed confusing to me, because why would Republicans be adopting Democratic positions? Just now, I changed it to this: , which I think avoids the confusion. Is this better from your perspective? --Tryptofish (talk) 23:39, 12 October 2026 (UTC)Reply
The redirect Wokerati has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 October 11 § Wokerati until a consensus is reached. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk 04:55, 11 October 2025 (UTC)
Not done. I checked, and the BLM protests talked about on this page were indeed in the teens, although of course there have also beem protests in this decade. --Tryptofish (talk) 18:09, 28 August 2026 (UTC)