Meaning of wokefest | Babel Free

Definitions

An event, work, etc. involving a lot of wokeness.

derogatory, informal

Examples

“2021, 21 August, Calvin Robinson, "Biden's woke presidency is a self-indulgent luxury the West can no longer afford⟳" (in The Daily Telegraph) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/21/bidens-woke-presidency-self-indulgent-luxury-west-can-no-longer/ The chief culprit has been President Joe Biden. His administration, with the gratingly right-on Kamala Harris at his side, has been a wokefest from the start⟳, whether it was rescinding Donald Trump’s ban on critical race⟳ theory-inspired implicit bias training for federal employees on his first day, signing ill-thought-through executive orders on trans rights, or jumping on every other virtue-signalling bandwagon he could find⟳.”

“James makes a lot of good points. It was pretty terrible - clunky, ponderous and unbelievable. And BBC docs with a few exceptions on BBC 4 are wokefests. And the licence fee is an anachronism. Even Paxo agrees.”

“2022, 28 March⟳, Louise Boyle, "Oscars ‘wokefest’ has turned off viewers, say⟳ critics. Does the ‘DiCaprio effect’ on climate prove⟳ them wrong?" (in The Independent) https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/oscars-2022-dicaprio-speech-b2045683.html DiCaprio used his 2016 Oscars acceptance speech to say⟳ that climate change⟳ ‘is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need⟳ to work⟳ collectively together and stop⟳ procrastinating’”

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