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LOL: Briahna Joy Gray BREAKS the brain of Rising guest Bethany Mandel by asking her to define "wokeness"
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2:06 PM · Mar 14, 2023
LoisB
(7,203 posts)LakeVermilion
(1,040 posts)Just tell everyone that its a "secret code" the the Right uses to spook its followers.
global1
(25,243 posts)Dems.
When I hear Repugs, Fox News & DeSantis using the term woke - they are actually using it because they are 'anti-woke' and using it to slam Dems for being woke.
For Repugs it is just a made up word that is thrown out there as a negative. Dems have 'empathy and compassion for the poor; for women's rights; LGBTQ; all minorities - which the Repugs define those characteristics as negative. Repugs don't exhibit empathy and compassion for no one - only the rich.
The use of the term by Repugs just confuses the issue and I don't even think many Repugs understand the term themselves and are confused.
I think we should come up with a term that Dems can use to slam Repugs and their lack of empathy and compassion. We should call them 'Cech' (pronounced keck). I made that word up by combining 'criminal and yech'. Yech is distasteful.
So from now on I'm going to be calling DeSantis; Fox News talking heads; Repug's in Congress (House and Senate); Conservative talk show hosts; and all their followers (like MAGA's; etc = Cech.
Again - I made the word up to counteract their 'anti-woke' use of the term woke - and I will use it as a negative word to describe them and their attitudes.
I hope you DU'ers join me in calling them 'Cech' - when they throw the negative connotation of the word 'woke' at us.
lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)WTF does that even mean?
BOSSHOG
(37,051 posts)Blame your enemy for what you do. Over and over again. Deregulate the railroad industry and a big part of the banking industry and when that deregulation results in failure blame your enemies for that failure on your way to the party of responsibility pep rally.
Ignorance and hate. All the rage at Republican meetings of any kind.
maxsolomon
(33,327 posts)Last edited Wed Mar 15, 2023, 02:15 PM - Edit history (1)
I've heard far-right cranks like Boebert say it. to paraphrase: woke is telling white children that black people are better than them.
So much of RW messaging is telling working-class whites that they are getting the shaft, that the poors and the minorities and the minorities are stealing their stuff.
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)Um yeah, no 💩 ya moron
Baitball Blogger
(46,704 posts)For the courts: It means that there is systemic racial injustice and society should do something to correct it.
For the average hard right: It means fighting against any education that would tell the true American history of black Americans and other minorities.
And, as a reaction, everyone else would claim that woke means being educated about American history.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)essentially it means youre not a racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic ASSHOLE
FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)I wish everyone were.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)SAY IT LOUD, SAY IT PROUD
FUCK REPUKES
Stinky The Clown
(67,798 posts)Its gonna go viral ya jabroni!!!
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)
and choose the Thesaurus option:
- civilized
- knowledgeable
- literate
- open-minded
- reasonable
- sophisticated
- tolerant
- well-informed
- cultivated
- savvy
- aware
- broad-minded
- forward-thinking
RussBLib
(9,008 posts)because they get countered with, "oh, you don't want to be aware of systemic injustice" then? IOW, stay stupid.
so they come up with this "the idea that society should be reordered with the most oppressed on top" or some other bullshit. Trying their best to use their own definitions and not some damn Dictionary's definitions.
Where are the statesmen? Or stateswomen? Or the acerbic butchers?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Five words: What do you mean by "woke"?
So simple, even a highly-paid newsreader could ask it.
Abolishinist
(1,293 posts)Five words: What do you mean by "woke"?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Five words, six words, what's the . . . Wait. Yeah, six words might be too many. Damn.
Abolishinist
(1,293 posts)Let's settle on 5.5 words! I mean, really... should supercalifragilisticexpialidocious be classified as JUST one word?
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,342 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)How was Mandel to know that after saying "woke" eight times in 10 seconds someone might ask her to define her terms? That never happens on Fox!
Zambero
(8,964 posts)A rambling disjointed word salad punctuated with mind-numbing silence, coupled with a sense of dread that her called-out ignorance would be going viral. Hard to define, said she, but oh-so easy to bandy about whenever a catch-phrase cudgel might come in handy!
live love laugh
(13,104 posts)elias7
(3,998 posts)kimbutgar
(21,137 posts)Like the words were Nanny state, Obama, socialism, CRT, and the other bs outrage the right wing media vomits out.
Cheezoholic
(2,019 posts)when she gets woke 5 times a night to pee
Grins
(7,217 posts)And cant define it?
Heckofajob as someone once said!
jerseyjim
(129 posts)when you don't know what the fuck it is.
Using a word repeatedly and passionately without looking up what it means, is really stupid.
Zilli
(188 posts)and I have heard her say "stay woke" at the end of her speeches for maybe 8 years, maybe more so I credit Barbara with this concept entering my world and I believe that Barbara created the definition as well because she has been a life long worker for equity and empowerment.
Keep asking these fools, who never actually know of what they speak, to define "woke".
canetoad
(17,154 posts)How about just looking at past/present tense. Woke=awake, the act of awakening, the state of not being fucking fast asleep while the world falls to bits around you.
ShazzieB
(16,389 posts)They spent a whole chapter defining woke in their terrible book (Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation), but she couldn't come up with a single coherent sentence about what the word actually means? Really?
Geez, lady, how do you expect me to take your hysteria seriously about how wokeness is The! Worst! Thing! Ever! if you can't even tell me what you think the word means?
Faux pas
(14,672 posts)KS Toronado
(17,230 posts)It's what I told a repug last week. First I asked him if he was WOKE, then said you must be "Asleep At The Wheel"
then. The G卐P's attempt to turn the word WOKE into something negative is backfiring on them.
Maybe we need bumper stickers....WOKE & PROUD OF IT....DON'T BE unWOKE & DRIVE