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By Patty McMurray
“What does ‘woke’ mean?’
The question was asked by my pastor as he sat down at our table having post-Mass coffee.
“What does it mean, exactly?”
Interestingly, we all could tell him examples, but no one—me included—could give a succinct answer to his question.
He later gave us his understanding, which I think was something like ‘being nice to folks who are different.’ But I took his question in a more fundamental way. The guy is not a Jesuit, but I went to a school run by Jezzies, and that sort of direct, fundamental query of basic meaning is as Jesuitical as it comes.
A woke is a poke, prodding, urging another discouraged and dissuaded.