Citations:wokefish

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 * 2020 July 28, Have You Been ‘Wokefished’ While Dating? Here’s How to Tell in VICE:
 * It confirmed what I’d begun to suspect: as much as he’d reeled me in with an outwardly “woke” persona, in reality, we were never going to see eye to eye. I had been wokefished.
 * 2020 August 5, ‘Wokefishing’ is the new awful trend on dating apps you have to watch out for in Yahoo News:
 * Vice writer Serena Smith has coined this new one, “wokefishing,” to describe when someone essentially tricks someone else into talking to them or going out with them by pretending to be more progressive than they actually are on dating apps.]
 * 2020 August 8, What is wokefishing and how can you spot it? in Metro UK:
 * wokefishing describes when someone pretends to hold progressive – or ‘woke’ views to lure another person into dating them.
 * wokefishing describes when someone pretends to hold progressive – or ‘woke’ views to lure another person into dating them.