It has had its place in the civil rights movement in the USA, again referencing the need to remain awake to racial prejudice and its dangers. The more recent Black Lives Matter movement in the USA that followed the killing of Michael Brown by Police Officers called for people to be awake/woke to the risk of Police action. In a tactical word switch of the meaning, we now have elements of the political right using the term ‘woke’ in a different way to denigrate all the things that they don’t like. Examples include Sushi in school lunches (foreign food) books that contain ideas, gender diversity (especially any combination of people of diverse genders reading books to children) The right like to dismiss specific bits of history that does not fit their narrative, immigration makes them angry (foreign people) fear feminism and basically anybody who does not agree with them. All are apparently examples of being woke. What this means is that those on the right, believing they are right, are actually the ‘Woke’ ones. They are clearly very ‘awake’ to anything that might challenge their view of the world. We do need to keep our eyes open and recognising that, along with trying to steal the rights of people this is also a steal of the term ‘woke’ – turning it against the very thing it originally meant, creating a hollowed-out version that can be filled with intolerance, prejudice and bigotry.