Citations:wokescold

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Noun: "(neologism, informal, derogatory) a person who criticizes or shames others for being insufficiently woke"[edit]

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  • 2019, Ben Shapiro, "2019: The Year Of The Wokescolds", The Cocheco Times, 10 January 2019, page 6:
    Wokescolds are the new representatives of moral panic.
  • 2019, Ben Shapiro, "The Dis-Grace Of Harvard", The Cocheco Times, 24 June 2019, page 42:
    Cross Harvard's most radical students or the wokescolds on social media and the administration will capitulate in short order.
  • 2019, Jason O'Day, "Obama isn't feeling 'woke'", The Daily Iowan (University of Iowa), 6 November 2019, page 4:
    Like Pope Urban VII, the self-righteous wokescolds seek to impose their questionable views and shifty standards on the rest of society by silencing dissenters with labels.
  • 2020, Dana Loesch, Grace Canceled: How Outrage is Destroying Lives, Ending Debate, and Endangering Democracy, unnumbered page:
    When it was announced that David Mamet's American Buffalo was returning to Broadway, cranky theater wokescolds protested.