I Asked "the Woman Who Couldn't Define Woke" the Same Question Last Year

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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/03/bethany-mandel-define-woke-video-stolen-youth.html

“This is gonna be one of those moments that goes viral,” Bethany Mandel said fatefully this week on Rising, the Hill’s daily news show. She was discussing a new book she had co-authored, Stolen Youth, published by the Daily Wire’s books imprint, which purports to expose the “woke agenda” employed by the left to make kids miserable. But Mandel seemed blindsided when co-host Briahna Joy Gray asked her to explain the term Mandel uses over and over again: “What does that mean to you? Would you mind defining woke?”

Mandel fumbled. “Woke is sort of the idea that, um,” she says, before stumbling more. The clip is uncomfortable, and naturally it was posted everywhere.

While many reveled in the moment, others suggested that the reaction was “kind of gross” for what was just a stumble on television. As it happens, I spoke to Mandel a few months ago for another story I was reporting, and she hesitated then too:

Aymann Ismail: What do you mean by wokeness?

Bethany Mandel: So, in terms of children, it’s the idea of turning them—I think my best example is the board book Antiracist Baby, and it is … hold on. I have it. I have the text somewhere. The idea that you cannot be neutral, that this is a fundamental reshaping of our society. In the lens of anti-racism, in the lens of sexuality, that is not what we’ve traditionally thought. It’s the idea that we’re trying to turn our kids into modern warriors in these political battles about CRT and about sexuality and climate change and all of these things.

Mandel said on Rising that she and her co-author spend an entire chapter of their book defining the term woke, and, based on the answer she gave me and the show, I might suggest that that’s part of the problem. I reached Mandel again on Wednesday, after she tweeted the rough interview herself. “I had an idiotic flub. It was just a stupid moment,” she said. “You know how you see something happening from outside of your body? Like ‘This is—why am I doing this? This is terrible!’ It was that. But on camera.” She added, “My husband made this comparison. You know that GIF of the monkey sticking its finger up its butt and smelling it? Every day, there’s that person on the internet. And today it’s me.”

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She's also the twat who said everyone should call her the grandma killer because she wasn't going to care if she spread covid.

[Srkdqltr]

1. Nothing but an idiotic word salad from her.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Maybe she should stop sticking her fingers up her butt and making us smell it.

Tu use her husband's words.

“My husband made this comparison. You know that GIF of the monkey sticking its finger up its butt and smelling it? Every day, there’s that person on the internet. And today it’s me.”

[CurtEastPoint]

3. selfish asshole. What a dildette.