What is "woke?" Conservative author tries to define it

[Anonymous]

Guys can we get back to shitting on Bethany please? I’m not interested in debating language, I’m interested in laughing at a smug idiot

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well if we are turning to the dictionary for answer, according to Merriam-Webster, the 1st meaning of the slang word woke is:
chiefly US slang
1
: aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)

And the second meaning is:
2
disapproving : politically liberal (as in matters of racial and social justice) especially in a way that is considered unreasonable or extreme

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woke

So it appears that woke more often is meant in the first meaning. And it's conservatives who use for the second, later meaning.

Sorry cons, when you use it as a pejorative, liberals receive it as a positive.

Basically cons and liberals are talking different languages. If you want people to understand then you'll have to translate.

I bet you were upset when you went to the dictionary and saw that second definition, huh?

Nope. I know that the order of definitions in a dictionary means something about usage.

Congrats, I guess?

[Anonymous]

Lmao at Bethany retweeting someone claiming that the left is losing “normies.”

[Anonymous]

Haha. Bethany’s co-author tweeted about how they sold “double enough books” to be on NYT Bestsellers list and yet they aren’t. Someone replied:

But you get to whine, complain, take a swipe at The NY Times, & present yourself as a victim. I believe that’s known as “conservative superfecta”. It begs the question: why are you so concerned about recognition from people you hate, but nothing you do is supposed to make sense

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I don’t think anyone is claiming it’s definable. Most of us are mocking Bethany because she uses it incessantly and can’t define it. After writing a book “and indeed a whole chapter” defining it. It’s a dumb word.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lmao at Bethany retweeting someone claiming that the left is losing “normies.”

+1 If “the left” was losing “normies” the midterms would have looked very different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reality is, if she were talking to Tucker Carlson she would have been able to rattle off a definition without thought.

Her problem is that she was asked by a Black person and she was having trouble coming up with a way to word it in a way that didn't show her racism.

Exactly this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don’t think anyone is claiming it’s definable. Most of us are mocking Bethany because she uses it incessantly and can’t define it. After writing a book “and indeed a whole chapter” defining it. It’s a dumb word.

It's not even that she can't define it. She literally just has zero to say when asked what the word means. She didn't have to give a dictionary definition - she could have just told stories or given examples. She just completely blanked.

[Anonymous]

Rutgers grad?

[Anonymous]

If you’re gonna show up on teevee wearing big glasses, you’ve got to be able to answer questions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don’t think anyone is claiming it’s definable. Most of us are mocking Bethany because she uses it incessantly and can’t define it. After writing a book “and indeed a whole chapter” defining it. It’s a dumb word.

It's not even that she can't define it. She literally just has zero to say when asked what the word means. She didn't have to give a dictionary definition - she could have just told stories or given examples. She just completely blanked.

Exactly. What continues to get me is that we have a very vague word, right? People can point it out when they see it but it’s difficult to define. But Bethany will not stop using it and goes on to write a book about it. Fine. What continues to astound me is that at no point during the writing or review process, she and her coauthor thought “We should come up with a succinct definition for when we’re doing interviews and book talks.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't really know for sure what "work" means, but this is the way I interpret it:

Standing with the far left Progressives, no matter what the issue. Examples:
1. An inability to use common sense. Example: trans women in women's sports. Sometimes, it just defies common sense to have a biological male compete with women.
2. Open borders. Compassion is imortant, but, again, open borders defy common sense. What about all the cartels using the distraction at the gates of thousands of people coming in daily. Cartels are crossing where there are no border agents because the agents are all at the entry points.
3. Student loan forgiveness--when most of the people who benefit are not that needy.
4. Forbidding oil drilling when we are not yet prepared to depend on renewable sources--especially when China is that source.

The word is "woke" and the rest of your post is strawman arguments.

[Anonymous]

Did anyone post Bethany's mask yet? That was a great one.
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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone post Bethany's mask yet? That was a great one.
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