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Bethany Mandel in an attempt to save herself makes up a story as to why she couldn't define woke and gets some hack at Fox to publish it as if it were fact.Wait.. wut? Author of book about wokeness can't define it?
Right-winger rails against "woke" — then struggles when asked to define what it means | Salon.com
Conservative author Bethany Mandel in an interview on Tuesday struggled to define the term "woke" despite the fact that she ostensibly wrote a book about the term, which has been co-opted by the right to refer to all types of things deemed to be liberal.
Second even in this article she fails to define it.
Conservative mom who struggled to define 'woke' says interviewer demeaned parents on hot mic: 'I was rattled' (msn.com)
Journalist Jemele Hill gets it right by asking the same question as I have been,
Jemele Hill praised Gray's question, saying it was why she "tells journalism students that open-ended questions are better than questions that sound tough."
"When conservatives first hijacked ‘woke,’ every journalist should have asked them to define it. Cause these meltdowns would have happened a lot," Hill wrote.
Bethany ended the interview with a telling quote
"There's a lot of academic definitions of woke that are constantly changing, and I don't think that they're super pertinent to our audience. I think the reality and what's important is that this is a radical reorganization of our society that is detrimental and disorienting for children," she said.
"You know it when you see it," she added. "You know, when we see young men competing in women's swimming competitions, that is wokeness personified."
She's basically saying woke is anything we say it is while NEVER acknowledging the original definition. This wiki article gives a good summary. Woke - Wikipedia
White conservatives have hijacked the term and bastardized it to demean concerns of minorities and people of color. It simply means an awareness of injustice and inequity.
Spread the word. #takebackwoke

