Citations:outwoke

to be more woke than

• 2017 May 22, Alex Beam, “Not woke and never will be”, in Boston Globe:

  Out in the world, it is hard not to stumble across the modish adjective “woke.” I heard comedians Sarah Silverman and Pete Holmes trying to out-woke each other in a recent “You Made It Weird” podcast. Holmes explained that “dating [current girlfriend] Valerie has helped me get woke to how I was raised by snobs.”

• 2018 December 19, Jason Zimoman, “Should Aziz Ansari and Louis C.K. Talk About Accusations Onstage?”, in The New York Times:

  [Aziz Ansari] began his set with a series of jokes poking fun at progressives who get furious online. He mocked the early summer uproar over cultural appropriation and a white girl from Utah who wore a cheongsam to prom, and sighed at those who criticized “The Simpsons” for the Indian character Apu. Later, he skewered competitive virtue-signaling, describing it as a game of “progressive Candy Crush.” The show’s major theme was contempt for “people trying to outwoke each other” online.

• 2019 July 30, Julian Vigo, “The Malaise Of Peak Wokeism Within Online Culture”, in Forbes:

  Ansari demonstrates how wokeism is both self-serving and self-perpetuating by simply acting as a vehicle for the privileged to “outwoke” each other while really doing nothing at all to change the reality which creates various forms of social inequality.

• 2019 November 3, David Marcus, “Beto Outwoke Himself”, in The Federalist:

  Beto Outwoke Himself

• 2020 January 26, Miranda Devine, “Joe Biden’s bias comes through in trying to outwoke competition: Devine”, in New York Post:

  But, by trying to outwoke Sanders on gender fluidity, Biden is empowering a tyrannical micro-minority determined to overturn biological reality and crush dissent.