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

[Anonymous]

What makes me sad about Bethany is that she does this for the attention. Years ago, I worked for a public health organization, and a fairly liberal one at that. She had a wonderful op-ed in the Washington post that we all loved about how to incentivize and increase childhood vaccine rates. Once she realized she got more money and views and clicks by being anti-vax, she decided to walk back her stance.

And as someone else said, she clearly reads here, so Bethany if you even try to say you aren’t anti-vax: You recently posted on your children’s book review account about “woke messaging” spotted at Barnes and Noble and one of the “woke” books you spotted was a board book about why it’s important to go to the doctor and get vaccines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s now claiming on Twitter she was thrown off because Brihanna was on a hot mic right before the interview started and she heard Brihanna “demeaning parents in colorful language.”

Her whole shtick is that she’s a homeschooling mother of six and liberals hate her because she’s a mother when in reality, every liberal woman I know has children. I have no idea why she thinks motherhood makes her special. Yes, it’s wonderful, hard, rewarding work. And she’s not the only one doing it.

Shit. I’m a liberal who chose to have four kids. And I like being a mom and I’d stay home if I could. Do I not exist? Bethany claims it’s impossible for a liberal to enjoy parenting so I must not.

Conservatives have no idea how actual liberals live. They claim we hate kids and that women especially have 27 cats and an effeminate life partner. In reality I have three kids, one cat (yeah yeah I’m allergic to dogs) and a husband who takes wonderful care of me. They can’t handle the fact that we may actually have nice lives so they just make shit up, I think.

Be honest. Your dh is gay and nowhere near as masculine as Seth.

C’est vrai. Had breeding sex three times with my closeted homosexual husband.

Sorry. I’m a lib so I meant to say I had sex three times with my closeted trans husband and then I had three abortions. Cause I’m a liberal so I obviously hate children.

Yeah but when did you have those abortions? I hear tell from conservatives that 99.99% of abortions take place in the third trimester.

Oh that’s true. I was two weeks overdue with all three when I had my abortions. My doctor, er, sorry, my midwife on my commune, was going to induce me but I was like actually I just decided at 42 weeks to not be pregnant. So I had abortions instead. It’s not just a Fox News fever dream, that’s 100% real life!

(In reality I know ONE woman who had an abortion, she was 24 and early enough along she could get the abortion pill, but to hear Bethany’s ilk tell it, every single liberal woman is waiting until they are 27 weeks to even consider abortion.)

Please stop making me laugh. Just had my weekly abortion and I’m a little sore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s now claiming on Twitter she was thrown off because Brihanna was on a hot mic right before the interview started and she heard Brihanna “demeaning parents in colorful language.”

Her whole shtick is that she’s a homeschooling mother of six and liberals hate her because she’s a mother when in reality, every liberal woman I know has children. I have no idea why she thinks motherhood makes her special. Yes, it’s wonderful, hard, rewarding work. And she’s not the only one doing it.

Shit. I’m a liberal who chose to have four kids. And I like being a mom and I’d stay home if I could. Do I not exist? Bethany claims it’s impossible for a liberal to enjoy parenting so I must not.

Conservatives have no idea how actual liberals live. They claim we hate kids and that women especially have 27 cats and an effeminate life partner. In reality I have three kids, one cat (yeah yeah I’m allergic to dogs) and a husband who takes wonderful care of me. They can’t handle the fact that we may actually have nice lives so they just make shit up, I think.

Be honest. Your dh is gay and nowhere near as masculine as Seth.

C’est vrai. Had breeding sex three times with my closeted homosexual husband.

Sorry. I’m a lib so I meant to say I had sex three times with my closeted trans husband and then I had three abortions. Cause I’m a liberal so I obviously hate children.

Yeah but when did you have those abortions? I hear tell from conservatives that 99.99% of abortions take place in the third trimester.

She’s especially bitter about abortions because as she’s said in the past, her own mother used them as birth control and had three.

Putting your own mother’s medical decisions on blast via Twitter to own the libs >>>>>>>

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely iconic that Bethany is calling people on the internet gross while her weird ass constantly tweets about how hot “breeding sex” is. Like I’ve never taken kids to drag queen story hour and I also don’t want to hear about the Mandela’ sex life

That’s what she does. She’s a hypocrite. Case in point: She claims that not all republicans should be defined by Jan. 6. Not every conservative supported the insurrection or even voted for Trump. Fine. But then she writes an ENTIRE book about how democrats are “woke” and uses the worst examples of chronically online liberals to illustrate her point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Usually when people say they are disgusted by wokeness, they are not really responding to actual, real wokeness.

They are bothered by either
A. performative wokeness (virtue signaling) or
B. Things done in the name of wokeness that actually marginalize or take away from others in some way (non race blind admissions, biological men in women’s sports, etc)

+1 Every day I walk by my bank branch with billions in assets and a large "END RACISM" sign on the door. There is zero probability that the sign does anything to stop racism. It is only supposed to signal that the bank is one of the virtuous corporations. This is what I think of when I hear the word "woke".

Another example is Land acknowledgments. I recently came across the land acknowledgment for the University of Maryland, which in part reads, "We are on the ancestral lands of the Piscataway People, who are the ancestral stewards of this sacred land." (https://diversity.umd.edu/resources/land-acknowledgement) The statement is again just virtue signaling. It is not like the University of Maryland is going to return any lands to the Piscataway People.

I believe that if one examines the 8 billion dollar a year DEI industry that the majority of examples would be similar performative nonsense.

But why does this bother you so much? I agree the sign actually accomplishes little and the bank is likely a hypocrite on the matter. But it’s like reduce reuse recycle signs. It creates over time a new consciousness. Which again is useless unless paired with action.

The land acknowledgments. Australia does this at the beginning of every meeting. Again not going to change anything but it is nice to honor our past. Again why does this bother you so much that anti-woke becomes a rallying cry and you then have to show proud and out racism to declare your fealty to your tribe?

[Anonymous]

I'll define woke. It is a belief that people are principally defined by their intersectional identities, and that it is correct and proper to divide people into classes according to race and sexual identity. Further, it is the belief that people are most likely to relate to these classes as their core identity, and as a result, it is best to relate to people through the lens of that identity rather than as an individual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll define woke. It is a belief that people are principally defined by their intersectional identities, and that it is correct and proper to divide people into classes according to race and sexual identity. Further, it is the belief that people are most likely to relate to these classes as their core identity, and as a result, it is best to relate to people through the lens of that identity rather than as an individual.

Nope. Doesn't work.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/climate/companies-conservatives-attack.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll define woke. It is a belief that people are principally defined by their intersectional identities, and that it is correct and proper to divide people into classes according to race and sexual identity. Further, it is the belief that people are most likely to relate to these classes as their core identity, and as a result, it is best to relate to people through the lens of that identity rather than as an individual.

Nope. Doesn't work.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/climate/companies-conservatives-attack.html

Provide a counter definition or GTFO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll define woke. It is a belief that people are principally defined by their intersectional identities, and that it is correct and proper to divide people into classes according to race and sexual identity. Further, it is the belief that people are most likely to relate to these classes as their core identity, and as a result, it is best to relate to people through the lens of that identity rather than as an individual.

Nope. Doesn't work.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/climate/companies-conservatives-attack.html

This has still got to be Bethany. Please stop. You really are stretching it here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You guys know she’s reading this and thrives on the attention, right? Enjoy her claiming on Twitter that you guys just hate her because she’s Jewish and not because she’s terrible. Wonder when her friends will show up to claim we “just don’t understand sarcasm” just like the last time we discussed her idiocy

Sadly, I have been deprived of her Twitter takes. She blocked me after the last go-round with DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll define woke. It is a belief that people are principally defined by their intersectional identities, and that it is correct and proper to divide people into classes according to race and sexual identity. Further, it is the belief that people are most likely to relate to these classes as their core identity, and as a result, it is best to relate to people through the lens of that identity rather than as an individual.

Nope. Doesn't work.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/climate/companies-conservatives-attack.html

Provide a counter definition or GTFO.

It's already been given in this thread, genius. It's a catch all that conservatives use for what the "libs" do politically that they don't like.

There really is no principled or coherent way to define it, as they use it, probably intentionally so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll define woke. It is a belief that people are principally defined by their intersectional identities, and that it is correct and proper to divide people into classes according to race and sexual identity. Further, it is the belief that people are most likely to relate to these classes as their core identity, and as a result, it is best to relate to people through the lens of that identity rather than as an individual.

Nope. Doesn't work.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/climate/companies-conservatives-attack.html

This has still got to be Bethany. Please stop. You really are stretching it here.

Uhhh, no. The point is "woke" is more expansive than just identity politics, unless you count "good card carrying liberal" as an identity. Ukraine, gun control and climate are not really identity politics, but are frequently referred to as woke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Usually when people say they are disgusted by wokeness, they are not really responding to actual, real wokeness.

They are bothered by either
A. performative wokeness (virtue signaling) or
B. Things done in the name of wokeness that actually marginalize or take away from others in some way (non race blind admissions, biological men in women’s sports, etc)

+1 Every day I walk by my bank branch with billions in assets and a large "END RACISM" sign on the door. There is zero probability that the sign does anything to stop racism. It is only supposed to signal that the bank is one of the virtuous corporations. This is what I think of when I hear the word "woke".

Another example is Land acknowledgments. I recently came across the land acknowledgment for the University of Maryland, which in part reads, "We are on the ancestral lands of the Piscataway People, who are the ancestral stewards of this sacred land." (https://diversity.umd.edu/resources/land-acknowledgement) The statement is again just virtue signaling. It is not like the University of Maryland is going to return any lands to the Piscataway People.

I believe that if one examines the 8 billion dollar a year DEI industry that the majority of examples would be similar performative nonsense.

This is a valid definition and frankly as a more conservative democrat, I agree with it. But why couldn’t Bethany just say something like this? (And don’t say because she heard Brihanna Joy Gray “badmouthing parents”)

That would have gone over REAL well with the black woman

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s now claiming on Twitter she was thrown off because Brihanna was on a hot mic right before the interview started and she heard Brihanna “demeaning parents in colorful language.”

Her whole shtick is that she’s a homeschooling mother of six and liberals hate her because she’s a mother when in reality, every liberal woman I know has children. I have no idea why she thinks motherhood makes her special. Yes, it’s wonderful, hard, rewarding work. And she’s not the only one doing it.

Shit. I’m a liberal who chose to have four kids. And I like being a mom and I’d stay home if I could. Do I not exist? Bethany claims it’s impossible for a liberal to enjoy parenting so I must not.

Conservatives have no idea how actual liberals live. They claim we hate kids and that women especially have 27 cats and an effeminate life partner. In reality I have three kids, one cat (yeah yeah I’m allergic to dogs) and a husband who takes wonderful care of me. They can’t handle the fact that we may actually have nice lives so they just make shit up, I think.

They’re all about make believe.

Well, y'all think that conservatives are Christian hillbillies who sit around and watch Fox News all day so there you are!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s now claiming on Twitter she was thrown off because Brihanna was on a hot mic right before the interview started and she heard Brihanna “demeaning parents in colorful language.”

Her whole shtick is that she’s a homeschooling mother of six and liberals hate her because she’s a mother when in reality, every liberal woman I know has children. I have no idea why she thinks motherhood makes her special. Yes, it’s wonderful, hard, rewarding work. And she’s not the only one doing it.

Shit. I’m a liberal who chose to have four kids. And I like being a mom and I’d stay home if I could. Do I not exist? Bethany claims it’s impossible for a liberal to enjoy parenting so I must not.

Conservatives have no idea how actual liberals live. They claim we hate kids and that women especially have 27 cats and an effeminate life partner. In reality I have three kids, one cat (yeah yeah I’m allergic to dogs) and a husband who takes wonderful care of me. They can’t handle the fact that we may actually have nice lives so they just make shit up, I think.

They’re all about make believe.

Well, y'all think that conservatives are Christian hillbillies who sit around and watch Fox News all day so there you are!

I don’t think that. Unlike republicans I’m not narrow minded. My ex-dh is a conservative Trump voter and actually he’s an atheist. Unlike Bethany I understand nuance.