Citations:wokerati

Noun: "(slang, derogatory) social-justice activists or woke people as a collective"

 * 2019, Lisa Simone, "The 'wokerati' have schooled me on taking personal offense", The Baltimore Sun, 28 June 2019:
 * Ah, but not according to the wokerati. They have schooled me. Here I thought I was leading a nice, comfortable, fulfilling life when in reality I have been lumbering through a "Slough of Despond."
 * 2019, Miranda Devine, "Google’s celeb-obsessed search for climate change answers is a hypocritical joke", New York Post, 31 July 2019:
 * The Gulfstreams, mega-yachts and gas-guzzling Maserati SUVs used to ferry the wokerati around the seaside Google Camp have been spewing out greenhouse gases at the rate of small nations.
 * 2019, Jonathan Reisman, "Right Whales and Salmon Tales", The Calais Advertiser (Calais, ME), 26 September 2019, page 4:
 * Now the bad orange man has proposed adding to his collection of sins against the planet and the wokerati by amending the ESA via executive order and rule-making (using executive orders and rule-making changes to bypass a Congress which won’t take action is something President Obama would never have done…oh wait, never mind.)
 * 2020, Michael Anton, The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return, unnumbered page:
 * Here comes the California Wokerati —headquartered in Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Westwood, and the Castro, backed by Malibu and Menlo-Atherton money—to cancel you for being Literally Hitler.
 * 2020, Harry Mount, "The rise of the Econian", The Spectator (UK), 1 August 2020:
 * I’d never seen so many Econians — the public school boys and girls who rule the wokerati world.
 * 2020, Steve Rose, "How the word ‘woke’ was weaponised by the right", The Guardian, 21 January 2020:
 * Toby Young piled in, applauding how [Laurence] Fox was “terrorising the Wokerati”, while the Sun last weekend branded Harry and Meghan “the oppressive King and Queen of Woke”.
 * 2021, Archie Bland, "Meghan and Harry draw praise and vitriol after Oprah Winfrey interview", The Guardian, 8 March 2021:
 * While the differences of opinion were not merely transatlantic, it was far easier to find voices attacking the couple in the UK, often among those who have previously dismissed them as avocado-loving standard-bearers for the “wokerati”.
 * 2021, Tony Letford, "Aussie life", The Spectator (Australia), 17 April 2021:
 * In a recent edition of The Drum on the ABC, host Ellen Fanning addressed the issue of Aboriginal deaths in custody and, to assist her in seeking out the truth, had four members of the wokerati including Dr Chelsea Watego on the panel.
 * 2021, Dani Garavelli, "How the debate over trans rights is splitting the SNP", The New Statesman (UK), 14 May 2021:
 * Acolytes of Salmond tout themselves as the great defenders of Second Wave feminists and decry the SNP mainstream, which support the bill, as the “wokerati”.
 * 2021, "The Drectator", The Lemon Press (satirical newsmagazine of the University of York), Issue 47, page 27:
 * I got cancelled by The Lemon Press Wokerati just for wanting long-term stable employment.
 * 2021, Allister Heath, "Woke hypocrites are fuelling a terrifying rise in anti-Semitism", The Telegraph (UK), 2 June 2021:
 * The wokerati are especially exercised by Israel, a proud nation-state which has no time for self-hatred.
 * 2021, Josh Hammer, "The campus 'Diversity' menace comes to Yale", Santa Barbara News-Press, 17 October 2021, page C3:
 * Within minutes of the email's mass distribution, the student's wokerati classmates were already signaling intense aggrievement.
 * 2021, Rachel Campbell-Johnston, "Must every exhibition drive a bulldozer over the past?", The Times (UK), 12 November 2021:
 * The wokerati have been at work again. Tate Britain has just opened what should be an extremely enjoyable Hogarth exhibition. Curators should be thrilled to have assembled such material for our delectation. Instead, it seems they don’t want us to enjoy the experience.
 * 2021, Dan Bennett, "Miners Rejoice as Annoying Canary Finally Stops Chirping", The Lemon Press (satirical newsmagazine of the University of York), Issue 50, page 27:
 * 'Obviously we put up with it as that's what you've got to do these days to appease the Wokerati, but then the canary just got louder and louder, and you should have heard it, it was taking the piss towards the end!
 * 2021, Carl Rhodes, Woke Capitalism: How Corporate Morality is Sabotaging Democracy, page 2:
 * If someone disparages you as a 'woketard' or a member of the 'wokerati ' then you are accused of being obsessed with appearing ethically right-on on issues ranging from environmental protection to identity politics.
 * 2021, SLMN, Scammers: An Illuminati Novel, unnumbered page:
 * Anything morally questionable, anything that put the team in a bad light, and made the money men think they needed to apologize to the wokerati, he could kiss his two hundred million bye bye.
 * 2022, Veronica Ivy & B. R. George, "Public Philosophy and Trans Activism", in A Companion to Public Philosophy (eds. Ian Olasov, Lee McIntyre, & Nancy McHugh), unnumbered page:
 * When “trans activists” criticize others' claims or arguments, we are presumed to be doing so not because we have considered them and found them lacking, but because, as members of the “Twitter red guard” and the “wokerati”
 * 2022, K. E. Grubbs, letter to the editor, The Wall Street Journal, 10 January 2022:
 * Lately, words like “crosshairs” and “target,” old standbys in political commentary, have been, well, targeted by the wokerati.
 * 2022, Marina Hyde, "You can’t erase history. But if you lived on Prince Andrew Way, you might have a go", The Guardian, 18 February 2022:
 * I can’t remember whether the Tory chairman does street name culture-warring yet – only a matter of time, obviously – but he could certainly salute the tailors of London’s Savile Row for sticking with the name, no matter the vicious jibes about bespoke shellsuits that it doubtless drew from the wokerati of the time.