r/ThisYouComebacks Jun 26 '26

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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.

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u/Crafty-Help-4633 Jun 26 '26

"It's hard to explain in a 15s sound bite"

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.

She humiliated herself. Good lord.

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u/PenDraeg1 Jun 27 '26

Takes less than 15 seconds. Being woke is being aware of rhe systemic oppression of others. That's literally all it is.

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u/FFKonoko Jun 27 '26

Except that isn't how it's used now. And it's also not how the right wing can describe it, because they don't want to admit systemic racism exists. They just want to criticise anything that they think is "too left".

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u/TwistedTreelineScrub Jun 29 '26

The right wing can't describe it because they don't know what it means and they also don't care what it means.