wokerati

English

Alternative forms

• Wokerati

Etymology

Blend of woke +‎ literati.

Noun

wokerati pl (plural only)

1. (slang, derogatory) Social-justice activists or woke people as a collective.
   • 2020, Michael Anton, The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return, unnumbered page:

     Here comes the California Wokerati —headquartered in Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Westwood, and the Castro, backed by Malibu and Menlo-Atherton money—to cancel you for being Literally Hitler.

   • 2021 November 12, Rachel Campbell-Johnston, “Must every exhibition drive a bulldozer over the past?”, in The Times, UK:

     The wokerati have been at work again. Tate Britain has just opened what should be an extremely enjoyable Hogarth exhibition. […] Curators should be thrilled to have assembled such material for our delectation. Instead, it seems they don’t want us to enjoy the experience.

   • 2022, Veronica Ivy, B. R. George, “Public Philosophy and Trans Activism”, in Ian Olasov, Lee McIntyre, Nancy McHugh, editors, A Companion to Public Philosophy, unnumbered page:

     When “trans activists” criticize others' claims or arguments, we are presumed to be doing so not because we have considered them and found them lacking, but because, as members of the “Twitter red guard” and the “wokerati” […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:wokerati.