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Conservative Author Totally Freezes Up When Pressed to Define ‘Woke’<!-- wp:html --><p>The Hill</p> <p>Finally, someone asked the question. </p> <p>During a Tuesday interview on<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ryan-grim-and-emily-jashinsky-exit-the-hills-popular-web-show-rising"> <em>The Hill’s</em> online program <em>Rising</em></a>, conservative author Bethany Mandel was stumped when co-host Briahna Joy Gray pressed her to give a definition of the word<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-maher-shares-definition-of-woke-during-jake-tapper-cnn-interview"> “woke,”</a> which has been used <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-flips-out-over-woke-xbox-because-everything-is-stupid">incessantly</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1635745320444342279">the right</a> to<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-is-now-mad-about-woke-one-legged-legos"> criticize</a> all things vaguely liberal.</p> <p>Mandel spent much of her chat with Gray and libertarian co-host Robby Soave promoting her <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/steve-forbes-assaulted-protesters-conservative-book-launch-party">new book <em>Stolen Youth</em></a>, which she co-wrote with fellow right-wing columnist (and<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65eX-ij_pg"> Ron DeSantis superfan</a>) <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2022/06/16/maga-influencers-flock-to-florida-chasing-political-clout-and-connections/">Karol Markowicz</a>. The book’s premise largely <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/how-a-perfect-storm-of-covid-lockdowns-and-woke-schools-stole-a-generations-youth/">centers on the belief</a> that the far-left has indoctrinated today’s youth with racial ideology, a “victimhood” culture, and “gender madness.”</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/conservative-author-bethany-mandel-freezes-up-when-pressed-to-define-woke">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

The Hill

Finally, someone asked the question.

During a Tuesday interview on The Hill’s online program Rising, conservative author Bethany Mandel was stumped when co-host Briahna Joy Gray pressed her to give a definition of the word “woke,” which has been used incessantly by the right to criticize all things vaguely liberal.

Mandel spent much of her chat with Gray and libertarian co-host Robby Soave promoting her new book Stolen Youth, which she co-wrote with fellow right-wing columnist (and Ron DeSantis superfan) Karol Markowicz. The book’s premise largely centers on the belief that the far-left has indoctrinated today’s youth with racial ideology, a “victimhood” culture, and “gender madness.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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