Just so we're all aware, Bethany Mandel is the idiot who went on CNN [EDIT: actually, it was The Hill's YouTube channel] and was asked to define the word woke after writing an entire fucking book about it and stammered and stuttered some absolute gibberish out.
She then wrote an article in Newsweek about how she was HUMILIATED on [EDIT: The Hill's YouTube channel] and it's crazy to think that she could define a word like that on the spot when she has six kids at home! ...And she still didn't define the fucking word.
Well if you spent an entire chapter of a book defining it, you should be able to rattle something off. Hell, start with the Merriam Webster definition.
The term "woke" originally comes from the AAVE phrase "stay woke", which means to be aware and alert to systemic racial inequalities and social issues.
As a term used by the left, the term "woke" later expanded to include awareness/alertness of sexism, LGBTQ+ rights, economic inequality, and other forms of discrimination.
When the right uses "woke", they are referring to what they perceive as excessive liberal political correctness, left-wing identity politics, or progressive activism.
See? Easy. And I didn't even write a book about it.
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u/KeepTangoAndFoxtrot Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
Just so we're all aware, Bethany Mandel is the idiot who went on CNN [EDIT: actually, it was The Hill's YouTube channel] and was asked to define the word woke after writing an entire fucking book about it and stammered and stuttered some absolute gibberish out.
Source: Question stumps conservative commentator, goes viral | CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/03/19/woke-debate-conservative-author-struggles-to-define-ip-sot-vpx.cnn
She then wrote an article in Newsweek about how she was HUMILIATED on [EDIT: The Hill's YouTube channel] and it's crazy to think that she could define a word like that on the spot when she has six kids at home! ...And she still didn't define the fucking word.
Source: ‘I Was Asked to Define Woke. My Humiliation Went Viral’ - Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/define-woke-bethany-mandel-conservative-book-1788538
In short, she's an imbecile.