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Conservative Author Totally Freezes Up When Pressed to Define 'Woke'
Tetrachloride
(7,813 posts)i was going to help him get a job once upon a time.
Guns and woke.
Odds are his liver is a mess. He earned his karma, one way or another.
TheBlackAdder
(28,160 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(144,884 posts)LakeArenal
(28,798 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,360 posts)but she found it too Woke and continued texting her influencer friends.
erpowers
(9,350 posts)I heard a clip of the interview while listening to the Michelangelo Signorile Show. Listening to the clip made me question whether or not she had written the book she claims to have written. She claimed there was a whole chapter defining woke in her book. How do you write a whole chapter about a word and then not be able to define the word?
Most if not all of us at DU have written book reports for school. What was always considered a way to determine which students actually did the work? The kids who could explain their work were believed to be the ones who did their work, while the kids who struggled to explain their work were believed to be the ones who had not actually done their work. This woman looks like a student who did not actually do the reading for the book report.
Once again, how do you write a whole chapter about a word and then not be able to define that word? I do not think there was a time when I did research for a report and wrote the report but was unable to explain the report. Have you ever seen a person who wrote a book not be able to explain what was in the book?
CrispyQ
(36,413 posts)I mean, woke is something thats very hard to define, she finally proclaimed, though that wasnt an answer to the question actually asked. And weve spent an entire chapter defining it. It is sort of the understanding that we need to totally re-imagine and redo society in order to create hierarchies of oppression.
It's exactly the opposite, you dumbass! It's about dismantling the hierarchies of oppression.
OMGWTF
(3,939 posts)because he'd have to work with "woke" people. I asked what he meant by that, and he replied, "You know, gays and transvestites." I didn't bother to correct him because it would not have made a difference.
CrispyQ
(36,413 posts)A few years back I saw this vanity plate: OH MY FSM
I LOLd.
claudette
(3,475 posts)FSM stand for? Im kinda dumb about these things 😊
Coventina
(27,052 posts)Rest in Pasta!
claudette
(3,475 posts)Amen!!😊
Ligyron
(7,615 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,360 posts)I was wearing more clothes at the time, though.
Oops
Coventina
(27,052 posts)erronis
(15,170 posts)POETIC
Altho I'll give a couple of shots out for 10SNE1 who has been a poster here at DU in the past.
CrispyQ
(36,413 posts)POETIC is good!
Glaisne
(515 posts)"...we need to totally re-imagine and redo society in order to create hierarchies of oppression.
That's exactly what they want to do! Classic conservative tactic of accusing the other side of what they want to do. SMH.
Skittles
(153,104 posts)the problem is, she cannot define it without showcasing exactly what she is: A FUCKING RACIST
Zambero
(8,962 posts)I'm sure this curated blend of pompous, clueless, and speechless could be demonstrated "equally well" by any rubber of "anti-woke" RW pundits and politicians. Whenever they persist in playing the "woke" card, simply ask them this exact interview question and let them have a go at it!
andym
(5,442 posts)If they answer anything about past inequities, ask them were there inequities in the past in America? Ask them do they believe in equality as a principle-- "equal rights"? You can then transition to do they even believe in freedom, given the most anti-woke of them all, DeSantis?
Her answer was "hierarchies of oppression"-- ask her specifically what kinds of oppression and lead back to equality and equal rights..
EYESORE 9001
(25,907 posts)peppertree
(21,595 posts)Why - when she was born, the doctor slapped her mother!
Ray Bruns
(4,071 posts)peppertree
(21,595 posts)Why - the other day, I asked her why we don't spend more time together.
And she said: 'Fine. You can watch.'
bluesbassman
(19,358 posts)The other day he told me I needed my appendix taken out. I said I wanted a second opinion. He said fine, youre ugly too!
peppertree
(21,595 posts)The day I got married, they sent us condolence cards.
Sky Jewels
(7,006 posts)He told me I was crazy, and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
peppertree
(21,595 posts)Every Halloween, he goes dressed up - as himself!
Sky Jewels
(7,006 posts)a Saint Bernard!
peppertree
(21,595 posts)Every time I go to kiss'er, I'm never really sure which end I'm going for!
3auld6phart
(1,039 posts)I just about pissed my pants. Thamks thatbrightened
up my day
peppertree
(21,595 posts)GGoss
(1,273 posts)"Honey, I'm lucky if I can find it in the morning."
peppertree
(21,595 posts)And don't get me started on my love life... Why - when my wife has sex, she screams. Especially if I walk in on her!
Initech
(100,028 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,628 posts)DeSantis over and over with this question.
peppertree
(21,595 posts)I bet she had the same problem in high school.
Ray Bruns
(4,071 posts)republianmushroom
(13,454 posts)Got it, you don't know squat.
keithbvadu2
(36,640 posts)Also problems in the right wing defining woman and CRT.
And baby vs fetus.
cstanleytech
(26,222 posts)minds of the public which the Republicans then are using to help them at the polls.
That's why the Republicans campaign firm (Fox News) has been pushing the story just like they have done for other ones.
Dr. T
(97 posts)selling rapture insurance. "When you get sucked up into the clouds on your way to the coffee shop, we will pay your remaining family members, the ones who are destine for hell."
Uncle Joe
(58,270 posts)Thanks for the thread EarlG.
patphil
(6,144 posts)We here at DU woke up a long time ago.
W T F
(1,145 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,664 posts)liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)keep_left
(1,779 posts)...but that was someone else. I knew that I had seen her somewhere before, however, and indeed she's one of the latest "pick-me girl" grifters who have jumped on the Fox bandwagon. It also turns out she's a homeschooling zealot mother of six, so you can safely assume that she's into radtrad religious politics as well.
https://www.deseret.com/authors/bethany-mandel
Seriously, though, how lazy do you have to be--she wasn't the least bit prepared for the obvious question, "what do you mean by woke?". It isn't like these people haven't been constantly "owned" (as the kids say) over the last few months on all the cable screamfest shows when they're asked to define their terms!
ShazzieB
(16,265 posts)Never heard of this, and now I'm really curious.
keep_left
(1,779 posts)...on their teachers to their parents..."no one else can be trusted", etc. I saw it either here or at the Daily Kos.
MiHale
(9,661 posts)Blather..blather..um..uh..oh you know!
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,434 posts)September 14, 2017 Tron Nick; brownwatch.squarespace.com
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adjective
ˈwōk
woker; wokest
Synonyms of woke
chiefly US slang
1
: aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)
But we will only succeed if we reject the growing pressure to retreat into cynicism and hopelessness. We have a moral obligation to "stay woke," take a stand and be active; challenging injustices and racism in our communities and fighting hatred and discrimination wherever it rises.
Barbara Lee
Note: thanks for post, saw video earlier-- que pendeja (what fucking moron) and she researched, wrote a book on topic? Fucking unbelievable! Did she even read the book? Also..responses to post on any topic are always informative and entertaining, that is depending on issue and level of brevity.
Warpy
(111,122 posts)to what might be lurking behind them.
Back in the 90s, I used to ask people what their family values were, I wanted to know since Democrats didn't have any. It was usually hilarious. "Compassionate conservatism" was another, I think it meant they felt a little guilty when they canceled school lunches and made little kids go hungry--and I was right. TFG was the mother lode of empty slogans, I startled a lot of deer and bunny rabbits in bright light with his slogans.
Of course, I can pull off the wide eyed innocent with people who don't know me better.
hibbing
(10,094 posts)I am sure they will get together to come up with a definition they will all use that will of course not be close to what it is, all to scare their racist base.
Peace
Warpy
(111,122 posts)they will be flopping about, trying to come up with a definition or explanation that doesn't make them look like assholes. This will take some considerable work on their part, as most of the definitions they come up with can be turned around on them quite easily to mean ignorance, cruelty, and generally being unchristian. It will be fun. They're also not going to be spreading even more slogans because their brains hurt too much when somebody asks what those slogans really mean.
KS Toronado
(17,136 posts)WOKE & PROUD OF IT....or....DON'T BE unWOKE & DRIVE
Glaisne
(515 posts)NOT being a stupid, bigoted, ignorant, misogynist, racist, classist, xenophobic, transphobic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, traitorous, hateful, right-wing jerk! Got it?
BobTheSubgenius
(11,558 posts)AllyCat
(16,135 posts)Like the racists they are.
JohnnyRingo
(18,614 posts)That woke culture is preventing her from getting the message to young people who have been indoctrinated by tenured liberals. Also to sell books on campus.
The rest would likely be liberals bad, republicans good.
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,884 posts)Ohioboy
(3,238 posts)Those that fought for women getting the right to vote...
Or those that fought to free slaves...
Or those that fought to end segregation...
By their own definition I would be proud to be "woke".
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)How come their woke is ok woke.
turbinetree
(24,683 posts)I wonder what she thinks of Manifest Destiny.....
stillspkg
(93 posts)Duh, should be the name of her book. MAGATs take a word that has a special meaning and application by the ones who created it, and throw it around in every inappropriate way possible. The idea of the media is to magnify it so that it becomes a turn-off.
The result is a combination of confusion from those who would really like to know, and turn-off/ ignore when those people who were brave enough to ask if they can say what it means, realize the MAGATs are clueless asses
IMHO, the current use of woke is a word that describes the state of mind needed to survive
among people who wont ever try to understand. If they are made to see how ignorant they are, it would be additional justification for shooting you.
Sky Jewels
(7,006 posts)in media training as an example of what NOT to do.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)Conservatives love vaguely scary bogeymen to manipulate their paranoid supporters. Woke is coming to ruin your life.
chiefly US slang
1
: aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)
GeoWilliam750
(2,521 posts)Is not this just authoritarianism versus humanitarianism
Society as a whole will lean slightly to the right - except like after WWII
Torchlight
(3,292 posts)while digging in on her own misspellings.
LT Barclay
(2,594 posts)quick way to fame and fortune.
BS in a pretty wrapper is still BS. Get a real job girl.
VGNonly
(7,480 posts)[link:
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(51,504 posts)I cannot stand these idiots.
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)I think there may be some areas of the country that are almost practically there. Depraved idiocy beyond belief in an area I drove through a couple days ago. Trump signs everywhere. I was certain, spotted I'd be considered a target with my California plates. I certainly had no inclination to stop!
But just as a thought experiment, let's give the "unwoke MAGA's" part of Arizona.
They cannot define the exact manifesto they're after although they believe they have a bead on some philosophical shangri-la.
Their "goodness" has to have an enemy to be "against". Now they'd be looking harder for those deviants among their own. They're armed to the teeth. They'd execute each other en masse within a decade of forming their own hateful state just out of the aimlessness of defining who "belongs" there every bit as bewildered as this (cough) "author".
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)most of society's problems would be solved quickly. They can't do as much damage if they're asleep. And they're against being woke. So it's a win-win if they just go back to bed.