I‘ve said it before and I’ll say it again: White people need to drop the word “woke” from their colonizer lexicons. Honestly, I’d be satisfied if they’d just keep all Black vernacular terms out of their mouths, but I’m aware that if they did that, white folks would only come up with maybe one or two slang terms per millennium. So, how about we just start with “woke” since, for all of their Columbusing and gentrifying of the term, they can never seem to articulate a definition for the word that already had a definition before they took hold of it.
Meet conservative author Bethany Mandel.
Mandel recently made an appearance on the Hill’s streaming show Rising with host Briahna Joy Gray to talk about her new book Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation. (I would have suggested a few alternatives such as Stolen Privilege: The Whiny White People’s Guide To Pretending Addressing Oppression is the Real Oppression or a shorter title like Aggrieved Caucasian Millennial Bible, but they don’t consult me on things like this.)
During the interview, Gray asked her guest a simple question: “Would you mind defining woke? It’s come up a couple of times and I just want to make sure we’re on the same page.” But the White Woman Woke Whisperer had a difficult time coming up with a definition. In fact, she froze up like a Caucasian bot whose circuits were overloaded after receiving a command that went against its programming.
“So, I mean, woke is sort of the idea that, um ….” Mandel began before stuttering and stammering as if whatever mechanism Caucasian bots use to whitesplain was severely in need of maintenance.
“This is gonna be one of those moments that goes viral,” she admitted while realizing how foolish she had made herself look.
“Woke is something that’s very hard to define and we’ve spent a whole chapter defining it,” she eventually said as she continued to…
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