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Yeah. Cheers. Thanks a lot.

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(Reaches for bowl of potpourri; starts nibbling)

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It’s my new hobby. Asking wingnuts to define “woke” in the mercifully rare instances that I encounter them. I respect the Castle Doctrine rule first, and I try to retreat. Failing a reasonable escape route, I ask them, “what is woke?” They usually pause, fumble, fidget, fart, then blarp something bigoted.

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Define woke.

Um, yeah. So, it’s very, very difficult to define yet surely captivating and poignant to read about.

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I go with "don't start none, won't be none"If they feel free to spout their jibberish, I will shoot it down without fear, since they were the ones who brought it.If they fall back on "you are making this political" (and they will) I will point out /that they started it and if they did not want push back, they probably should not start it in the future

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Her just freezing up would have more weight, Mr. Chait, if /she did not do the rest of the interview just fine and even before she answered the question point out that she had a bad answer to it.That is not freezing up. That is not knowing what the hell she wrote a book about and makes her, therefore, A Idiot

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Woke is easy to define:Overemphasis on divisions in race, gender, and sexual orientation to analyze and proscribe solutions to problems in society.

And thank you Stephen Robinson for mentioning her because I'm going to look up and support her writing because the world is filled with too many bad writers like you, SR.

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"Woke" means having (or getting) a clue.

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chait, lol

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Their use of the term "woke" is pretty emblematic of the wholesale acceptance of the worst excesses of postmodern thought on the part of the Right.

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i think she might have some dumb ideas in general. this garbage tells me she isn't a serious person to even bother engaging with. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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As indeed they are.

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Mandel's goofy-ass book argues that the Left is indoctrinating American youth through politics, education, mental health, and entertainment.Other than sleep, what is left?

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Right? He's such a hack. Of course he's defending an person without a serious thought behind her smear campaign.

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Who goes on a show and freezes up when asked to define the premise of her damn book? That is just not a thing.

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I think the cat's out of the bag on that one.

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