unwoke policy

9.5

A rule or practice that ignores fairness for groups such as race and gender

noun
/ʌnˈwoʊk ˈpɑlɪsi/

Slang

: política desinformada

The school board was accused of maintaining an unwoke policy that ignored harassment complaints.

Examples

Many activists campaigned against the company's unwoke policy on employee rights.
Voters were divided over the candidate's promise to revise former unwoke policy stances.
The school implemented an unwoke policy that ignored student diversity.
Many people criticized the company's unwoke policies during the meeting.
Many activists campaigned against the company's unwoke policy on employee rights.
The school board was accused of maintaining an unwoke policy that ignored harassment complaints.
Voters were divided over the candidate's promise to revise former unwoke policy stances.

Antonyms

inclusiveness

7 3.8

Making everyone feel welcome and treating them fairly

How Inclusive

progressiveness

1 6.6

policy on multiculturalism

Formal

4.6

unwoke policy

Slang

9.5

Surface Forms

unwoke policy singular

unwoke policies plural

Morphology

unwoke + policy

The structure is compositionally simple (un- + woke + policy), so if a learner knows 'woke' and the negator 'un-' they can infer 'a policy that is not woke'. However, 'woke' is recent socio-political slang with culturally specific connotations and 'unwoke' is informal, so the precise evaluative sense ('outdated' or 'insensitive') may not be fully predictable to a typical B1 learner.

Etymology

Unwoke policy comes from woke, a word that used the image of being 'awake' to social problems, so unwoke means 'not awake' to those issues. So an unwoke policy is a rule or practice that is old-fashioned or that ignores modern ideas about fairness and treating people equally.