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You're using a definition that nobody who identifies as a left wing "woke", inclusive or kind, person uses. This is demonstrating my point.

I think you need to follow your own advice! You and those like you don't have a monopoly on what this term means either. In fact I'd argue the people who created the term have the right to define it.

To your point, right leaning people can also be woke! I.e. concerned with inclusion, kindness and equity.

Perhaps it's time to retire the word. It's become some off the cuff, ad hominem insult by right wing leaning people rather than retaining any of the original meaning.

What I gather is that you actually have a problem with something specific that isn't related to "wokeness" but to the tribalism and "othering" that is going on among some left leaning people. This can be talked about specifically without abusing definitions or changing the meaning of words.

I'd go further and argue using woke the way it is used currently by right leaning people is a form of othering in and of itself.

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I'm not making your original point, your point is that nobody but the left knows what "woke" really means so everybody else is wrong when they discuss it. My point is that you have no sole claim to the meaning of woke, the people who use the word do, and it means different things to different people.

As for following my own advice, I gave you two very explicit disclaimers that it is solely my own definition of the term, as I understand its use by a significant part of the population. It is not a claim of ownership, but it is a useful definition, widely in use, if you wish to discuss wokeness with people who disagree with you.

Language is fuzzy and evolves on its own, the place of the author V.S the users is a discussion that's been had here a million times about many other terms far removed from politics. The term has shifted precisely because the people who exhibit these exclusive and unkind behaviours call themselves woke, in that sense it is related to wokeness. Both definitions exist concurrently, neither of us can change that, but if you wish to discuss wokeness you'll have to accept that it does have a cohesive meaning, different from your own, to a lot of other people, and not just deny the existence of this meaning.

(On a side note I'm a leftist and so are many of my friends who have issues with "wokeness", as we understand it.)