Pic Of The Moment: If You're Wondering What Republicans Mean By The Term "Woke," Just Ask An Expert!

[EarlG]

Conservative Author Totally Freezes Up When Pressed to Define 'Woke'

[Tetrachloride]

1. I had to block a friend this week.

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]

66. Expert - X is an unknown quantity. SPURT is a drip under pressure.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. This interview guest admits she can't define "woke" but wants to fight against it.

Link to tweet

[LakeArenal]

7. Wrote a book about it? Did she read her own book?

[A HERETIC I AM]

37. Someone might have read it to her.....

but she found it too Woke and continued texting her influencer friends.

[erpowers]

69. Did She Write the Book

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]

8. In her next statement she does define it, although she gets it completely wrong.

“I mean, woke is something that’s very hard to define,” she finally proclaimed, though that wasn’t an answer to the question actually asked. “And we’ve 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]

12. My RWNJ bro-in-law said he wanted to get a part-time job at the local library but decided not to

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]

16. OMG I love your screen name!

A few years back I saw this vanity plate: OH MY FSM

I LOLd.

[claudette]

28. What does

FSM stand for? I’m kinda dumb about these things 😊

[Coventina]

30. Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Rest in Pasta!

[claudette]

31. Thank you

Amen!!😊

[Ligyron]

36. No, it's ramen!

[A HERETIC I AM]

40. I've been touched by his noodly appendage

I was wearing more clothes at the time, though.

[claudette]

47. 😂

Oops

[Coventina]

29. Ha! I wish I'd thought of that!!!

[erronis]

34. My favorite vanity plate:

POETIC


Altho I'll give a couple of shots out for 10SNE1 who has been a poster here at DU in the past.

[CrispyQ]

38. I saw TARDIS once.

POETIC is good!

[Glaisne]

61. Do I see projection in her answer?

"...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]

71. she knows what it means

the problem is, she cannot define it without showcasing exactly what she is: A FUCKING RACIST

[Zambero]

3. This is priceless

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]

4. Keep asking them what they mean by woke.

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]

5. 'They know it when they see it'

[peppertree]

11. Nooo respect at all!

Why - when she was born, the doctor slapped her mother!

[Ray Bruns]

13. I got my kid a BB gun for Christmas. He got me a shirt with a bullseye on the back.

[peppertree]

20. Ha! And let me tell you, I get no respect from my wife!

Why - the other day, I asked her why we don't spend more time together.

And she said: 'Fine. You can watch.'

[bluesbassman]

26. My doctor is no prize either!

The other day he told me I needed my appendix taken out. I said I wanted a second opinion. He said fine, you’re ugly too!

[peppertree]

32. And my friends? They're no help.

The day I got married, they sent us condolence cards.

[Sky Jewels]

43. My psychiatrist disses me too.

He told me I was crazy, and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.

[peppertree]

45. Figures, you know? 'Cause I've got an ugly kid, too.

Every Halloween, he goes dressed up - as himself!

[Sky Jewels]

49. My girlfriend is ugly, too. She's got the face of a saint --

a Saint Bernard!

[peppertree]

54. And I mean, ugly!

Every time I go to kiss'er, I'm never really sure which end I'm going for!

[3auld6phart]

35. Dang

I just about pissed my pants. Thamks thatbrightened
up my day

[peppertree]

44. You're very welcome. Rodney was the greatest.

[GGoss]

73. Question From The Crowd: "Rodney, Do You Find It Hard Getting Up In The Morning ?"

"Honey, I'm lucky if I can find it in the morning."

[peppertree]

74. *snort*

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]

6. That's what happens when their favorite president loves to court the poorly educated.

[bullwinkle428]

9. I dream of living in a country where reporters would keep hammering

DeSantis over and over with this question.

[peppertree]

10. That's what happens when you have someone ghost-write something for you

I bet she had the same problem in high school.

[Ray Bruns]

14. I have got to get in on this "writing a book for the rubes" money.

[republianmushroom]

15. Yep

Got it, you don't know squat.

[keithbvadu2]

17. Also problems in the right wing defining woman and CRT.

Also problems in the right wing defining woman and CRT.

And baby vs fetus.

[cstanleytech]

18. She can't define it because th "word" is made up and it's simply being used to cause fear in the

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]

19. I was thinking about

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]

21. I don't believe anyone can define "woke" if they're asleep.

Thanks for the thread EarlG.

[patphil]

24. And we all know that Trumpers are brain dead zombies.

We here at DU woke up a long time ago.

[W T F]

22. She couldn't explain what woke is without exposing her racism.

[twodogsbarking]

23. Where I grew up such a woman would be referred to as "off her rocker".

[liberaltrucker]

59. "Her cornbread ain't done in the middle"

[keep_left]

25. So at first I thought this was the idiot who wrote the "anti-woke" *children's book*...

...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]

42. What is the "anti-woke" *children's book*?

Never heard of this, and now I'm really curious.

[keep_left]

50. I can't remember it now. The main theme was something to do with kids snitching...

...on their teachers to their parents..."no one else can be trusted", etc. I saw it either here or at the Daily Kos.

[MiHale]

27. That's almost the same response I get when I ask them...

Blather..blather..um..uh..oh you know!

[RestoreAmerica2020]

33. This.. U.S.Rep. Barbara Lee' s words used in Merriam-Webster to explain woke

Merriam-Webster dictionary is using Rep. Barbara Lee's words to explain what 'woke' means
September 14, 2017 Tron Nick; brownwatch.squarespace.com

woke
1 of 2
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]

39. Most of these angry RWNJs find it impossible to think beyond their slogans

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]

46. They always have their slogans and talking points down

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]

48. In the meantime, and because most of them are not smart

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]

41. Maybe we should make some bumper stickers....

WOKE & PROUD OF IT....or....DON'T BE unWOKE & DRIVE

[Cha]

51. Idiot.

[Glaisne]

52. Hey Bethany, woke means

NOT being a stupid, bigoted, ignorant, misogynist, racist, classist, xenophobic, transphobic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, traitorous, hateful, right-wing jerk! Got it?

[BobTheSubgenius]

53. Fortunately, the interviewer caught Bethany in a particularly lucid moment.

[AllyCat]

55. None of them know how to define it without sounding

Like the racists they are.

[JohnnyRingo]

56. I'm not reading it, but I bet half the book is about how she can't speak at colleges.

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]

57. I love the legal definition of woke

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Ohioboy]

68. So some examples from history of people "being woke" would be...

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]

58. Isn't it "woke" to ban books????

How come their woke is ok woke.

[turbinetree]

60. A Racists can't explain her own idea what woke means....

I wonder what she thinks of Manifest Destiny.....

[stillspkg]

62. Yeah, we get it.

Duh, should be the name of her book. MAGAT’s 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 MAGAT’s are clueless asses
IMHO, the current use of woke” is a word that describes the state of mind needed to survive
among people who won’t ever try to understand. If they are made to see how ignorant they are, it would be additional justification for shooting you.

[Sky Jewels]

63. I have a feeling this clip is going to be used extensively

in media training as an example of what NOT to do.

[IronLionZion]

64. Woke is like Antifa, or War on Terror, or Foreigners are coming to kill us

Conservatives love vaguely scary bogeymen to manipulate their paranoid supporters. Woke is coming to ruin your life.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woke?utm_campaign=sd&utm_medium=serp&utm_source=jsonld
chiefly US slang
1
: aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)

[GeoWilliam750]

65. Ultimately...

Is not this just authoritarianism versus humanitarianism

Society as a whole will lean slightly to the right - except like after WWII

[Torchlight]

67. She seems the type who would mock the typos of others

while digging in on her own misspellings.

[LT Barclay]

70. UGGH! I am so sick of the idiots who will spout any kind of ignorant nonsense to the MAGATs as a

quick way to fame and fortune.
BS in a pretty wrapper is still BS. Get a real job girl.

[VGNonly]

72. Too many notes

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[SunSeeker]

75. She reminds me of the dipshit who stole Nancy Pelosi's laptop on Jan. 6.

I cannot stand these idiots.

[lambchopp59]

76. Imagine for a moment the "un-woke" actually seceded from the union as idiot MTG suggests.

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]

77. If these conservatives just went to sleep and never woke up

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.