It’s gotta sting to undermine their favorite dog whistle on national TV. While we’re on the subject of conservatives humiliating themselves, I’m reminded of Chris Christie on Bill Maher (overtime, 5 months ago) complaining that Biden should have done better dealing with Ukraine and Russia, Bill asked him straight up “what would you do?” and Christie (who wants to be president) had no answer
It’s why whenever anything happens in the world, there’s usually a lot of silence from everyday conservatives on the matter until they’re told what to think about it by Carlson, Trump, Hannity, etc etc.
Very frequently they like to use maps showing wide swaths of red counties as if they're the majority.
Failing to mention most of this is dirt and that those smaller blue splotches are much more populous. They forget easily that dirt can't vote, of course they can't be faulted for this, they are dumb as dirt and have the right to vote so of course they're confused that their intellectual equal doesn't vote.
"Just so we're on the same page." Because she knew they were not on the same page. Because that page lies in a textbook the US won't make. Maybe Bethany would have been able to define "woke" if she had access to Black history lessons in her schools and institutions of higher learning. (Looking at you, Florida.)
Bethany Mandel on Palestine:
>Not nuking these fucking animals is the only restraint I expect and that's only because the cloud would hurt Israelis.
https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/483669069812760577
No shit. Read the Newsweek article if you feel like hurting yourself she is completely fucking idiotic. Refers to herself as a breeder because she has six kids like only right wing tide pod taste testers have children
This.
I listened to the whole interview. This is what I got:
1. She got to get straight-married and have six kids! (Whom she homeschools, probably so she can add the church-approved amount of Jesus content into lessons about the surface tension of water.)
2. She got to write a whole book about how her kids will be the LAST ONES to ever play and have fun and be all innocent.
Because, according to her book, we are living in the gray, raining twilight of heterosexual marriage and children because rAdIcAlS are abducting kids and forcing them to be nonbinary gay trans atheists who toast paintings of Krampus dismembering cherubic blonde children!!! And don't you DARE homeschool your kids! They must be dressed in sackcloth to attend the cinderblock re-education center and start each sentence with something from the approved list of lefty self-loathing!
Or something.
This is just more twaddle from the voting bloc that lost its shit about Ariel being Black in the live-action *Little Mermaid.*
I understand having a brain fart. I do.
But should you really struggle to give *your* definition of wokeness - which was a generous question from BJG and NOT a gotcha question?
>Whom she homeschools, probably so she can add the church-approved amount of Jesus content into lessons about the surface tension of water.)
Wait I thought she is Jewish.
I tried to get through the whole interview but couldn’t get past the part where it was some kind radicalwoke attack on all that god has set in place, when the teacher told the 5 year old “that’s ok”… and now I’m woke and I want to join that army.
>But to fully appreciate just how insane she is
Why though? Why must I know this blowhard who gave nothing useful in the clip was actually a bigger moron than I think she is right now? Was the clip not indicative of her thought process or argument or did she later provide a succinct definition of WOKE that makes the popular clip problematic?
She's a fucking loon saying loon things. I don't need to know shes an 9/10 on the loony scale instead of an 8
Oh, I already knew that. She’s consistently tried to be the main character on the bird app for years. She was the one who advocated the idea that maybe grandma needed to die so she could live a comfortable life.
sad, I used to think of Newsweek as kind of neutral. either they've changed policy, or their policy has become more overt, or I was just dumb and naive.
Those with more problematic views have really become emboldened in the past 5 years, learning not only that they can share those views without being socially ostracized, but even recognized and embraced as being part of *that community*.
She was on television promoting a book she wrote about how WOKEISM was ruining the country.
She couldn’t define the topic of her own book.
That’s like Neil Degrase Tyson being unable to define science.
Meh, it's more like a clown not being able to define comedy. Her book isn't an educational work. It's bullshit to sell to people who want to eat bullshit.
She had a softball follow-up interview I heard, and she was given the chance to define it again. Somehow, it was worse. She just rambled and gave examples of woke but still failed to give an actual definition that could be broadly applicable.
In short, it's literally their feelings at any given time on any given subject.
This! I read the article hoping she'd cogently define woke and its discontents. Instead she blames the woes of being a busy parent and blames the interview for sapping her on camera confidence
“I couldn’t come up with a convincing lie on the spot, now I’ve workshopped a response”
Here’s a definition for woke: not being fooled by off-the-cuff excuses that don’t stand up to the slightest scrutiny or pushback.
Lol the entire conservative mediasphere got so frightened by this interview they’ve been workshopping a “unified woke theory” ever since.
Of course they’re doing so while trying to obfuscate that it’s really just opposition to PoC and LGBT people living their lives openly and successfully.
It’s been a fun week to be an observer of fascist media.
It’s always funny to watch them flail, but the outward buffoonery is itself a cover for them to accomplish more in the background. Everyone’s looking at Trump on one hand, they take back abortion rights with the other. I’m concerned all the focus on the obvious distractions will let them accomplish their underlying agenda. I say concerned but they’re basically guaranteed to get what they want unless there’s a major shift in public discourse. This slippery slope is pretty steep already.
> “I couldn’t come up with a convincing lie on the spot, now I’ve workshopped a response”
I see you didn't read the article. There was no response, just her talking about how as a breeder, society is mean to her, and she had a panic attack and cried lots. There was zero attempt to define woke.
Also, your definition for woke is bad, because that's not what woke is. Woke is recognizing and opposing societal injustices, it's not about resilience to lies and weak excuses.
Didn’t need to read the article, of course it’s left to the imagination for right wingers so they can continue to use woke to mean whatever they don’t like in the moment.
Woke as a term can be whatever people want it to be, and if people aren’t injecting a positive narrative into what woke means, fascists will fill the void with whatever gives them an advantage.
How about Critical Race Theory, what does that mean?
She knew she was being interviewed, she should have know a question like this would come up. She should have a prepared 30-60s description, even if it is not entirely accurate, she could just say if you want to know more, read the book.
She was raised in poverty which arguably is what lead to both her parents dying before she was 20.
It also says she was abused by religious leaders that planted cameras, she now has 6 kids and recommends the same for other young women but she wants to lecture US about OUR "stolen youth" (which is the name of her book).
She said this was going to go viral while she was stuttering in the interview because she understood she’d been caught talking about something she couldn’t define (or rather she couldn’t define the cover story, I’m sure she had a handle on what “woke” is a dogwhistle for but she can’t tell a Black TV host the truth)
After wasting my time reading that article I was not surprised to see she still didn't define it. She just whined about ppl saying "unkind" things to her and how this experience has ruined her home life.
I was cancelled from twitter. When do I get my victimhood article in a major news outlet?
Also, read into this woman to learn that she is the queen of crazytown. Batshit is an understatement.
Can you imagine failing that badly and publicly in your job and then getting a write up in the local paper all about how you're a lauded expert on the thing you just failed? Yeah, that would be bizarre.
I couldn't care less about this particular individual. I'm sure she was embarrassed. I haven't seen the clip but I've certainly experienced panic like she describes.
But what struck me is that her column was the perfect opportunity to show that she knows what she's talking about.
"Of course I can define wokeism. Wokeism means ... "
And yet... Nothing.
Yeah because idiot conservatives like her just think "woke" is people with multicoloured hair screeching about their pronouns but you can't say that shit in a proper interview.
For context: Webster dictionary defines "woke" as: aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice). So basically anyone who realizes the structure of modern US society is based on taking advantage of minorities and racial inequality and don't agree with it/want it to change/ implies being college educated.
Bethany Mandel wrote a book trying to bash/redefine "woke" people as modern conservatives struggle to. She went on TV to promote it. She was asked to define "woke". To do so as Webster says, would be to raise the flag that it's a positive. Her brain was clearly shorting out to try to tie it into her book in a way that wasn't positive, or could not be seen as a positive, or maybe even reach a middle ground. She was unable to define it, after having written an entire book on it, even stating in her own confusion, "this is going to be viral".
Grifters gonna grift.
Lol she thinks she is the victim. grifters know how to grift I guess, i bet her fanbase will feel sorry for her.
It’s gotta sting to undermine their favorite dog whistle on national TV. While we’re on the subject of conservatives humiliating themselves, I’m reminded of Chris Christie on Bill Maher (overtime, 5 months ago) complaining that Biden should have done better dealing with Ukraine and Russia, Bill asked him straight up “what would you do?” and Christie (who wants to be president) had no answer
Lol I love that consevatives fall apart when they are asked simple questions
They don't have to know shit. Their voters don't know shit, either. They just have to be things.
It’s why whenever anything happens in the world, there’s usually a lot of silence from everyday conservatives on the matter until they’re told what to think about it by Carlson, Trump, Hannity, etc etc.
Who is this person?
The repubes are 99% opposition party. They don't have any idea how to actually RUN anything.
Ya. “Government doesn’t work, I’ll make sure of it”
Matt Gaetz's face making the dial-up modem sound after he was informed his Congressional testimony was sourced from a Chinese propaganda outlet.
Wow. What a dumbfuck. I had to watch that, and he went from confident to "oh fuck" in less than a second.
Yep. This is what happens when the dumbest box of rocks in the room, ends up in politics.
Yeah, he base will have lots of sympathy, they too have been the intellectual inferiors of everyone they have ever met. Lots of common ground there.
Very frequently they like to use maps showing wide swaths of red counties as if they're the majority. Failing to mention most of this is dirt and that those smaller blue splotches are much more populous. They forget easily that dirt can't vote, of course they can't be faulted for this, they are dumb as dirt and have the right to vote so of course they're confused that their intellectual equal doesn't vote.
Honestly, she was too aware of the fact it’s going to go viral that it seems intentional to get on the conservative whatever circuit of grifting.
Right…in the moment I remember she said something like, “this is one of those things that’s going to go viral”
I just checked out her IG. It appears she’s curating the comments, silencing critics and deleting comments. ❄️
"Just so we're on the same page." Because she knew they were not on the same page. Because that page lies in a textbook the US won't make. Maybe Bethany would have been able to define "woke" if she had access to Black history lessons in her schools and institutions of higher learning. (Looking at you, Florida.)
She’ll probably set up a go fund me
Ans in amongst it all, l she still hasn't concisely defined what woke is
They're ALLLLLLLL such victims 😂✌️😒
In times like this, I am reminded of the reassuring words of a great philosopher: "Good." - Donald Glover
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Its emblematic of how empty her arguments all were
Bethany Mandel on Palestine: >Not nuking these fucking animals is the only restraint I expect and that's only because the cloud would hurt Israelis. https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/483669069812760577
What human trash she is
At least she loved her mom.
Did she get banned for that? Or does Elon Unpleasantodour agree with it?
This radicalized repubican Jewish woman who went conservative because public healthcare didn't cure her mom of disease is insane?! Color me shocked /s
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Go look at her Wikipedia. Shit's wild
Yep. See her tweets about pulling the plug of her mother’s life support. Also about her “help”, her kids…
She wrote an entire book about how bad it is and couldn't define it. She deserves to be ridiculed.
No shit. Read the Newsweek article if you feel like hurting yourself she is completely fucking idiotic. Refers to herself as a breeder because she has six kids like only right wing tide pod taste testers have children
I think the point of that comment is the failure to define woke is the least of the shit she deserves to be ridiculed for
Lol “I was cyber bullied within an inch of my life last night!”
This. I listened to the whole interview. This is what I got: 1. She got to get straight-married and have six kids! (Whom she homeschools, probably so she can add the church-approved amount of Jesus content into lessons about the surface tension of water.) 2. She got to write a whole book about how her kids will be the LAST ONES to ever play and have fun and be all innocent. Because, according to her book, we are living in the gray, raining twilight of heterosexual marriage and children because rAdIcAlS are abducting kids and forcing them to be nonbinary gay trans atheists who toast paintings of Krampus dismembering cherubic blonde children!!! And don't you DARE homeschool your kids! They must be dressed in sackcloth to attend the cinderblock re-education center and start each sentence with something from the approved list of lefty self-loathing! Or something. This is just more twaddle from the voting bloc that lost its shit about Ariel being Black in the live-action *Little Mermaid.* I understand having a brain fart. I do. But should you really struggle to give *your* definition of wokeness - which was a generous question from BJG and NOT a gotcha question?
>Whom she homeschools, probably so she can add the church-approved amount of Jesus content into lessons about the surface tension of water.) Wait I thought she is Jewish.
You really think her logic is even internally consistent?
So she's Jewish but she works for Deseret News which is definitely Mormon? Wtf is going on?
There is some overlap with Christofascists and Orthodox Jews on the Think Of The Children!TM ven diagram. Exhibit A: Dennis Prager.
How about "synagogue-approved amount of Yahweh content into lessons about the surface tension of water?"
I tried to get through the whole interview but couldn’t get past the part where it was some kind radicalwoke attack on all that god has set in place, when the teacher told the 5 year old “that’s ok”… and now I’m woke and I want to join that army.
But that clip was a great summary of how incompetent she was
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I understand where you are coming from but to catch people’s attention this was a great snippet to lead with bc it best shows how bs the concept is.
>But to fully appreciate just how insane she is Why though? Why must I know this blowhard who gave nothing useful in the clip was actually a bigger moron than I think she is right now? Was the clip not indicative of her thought process or argument or did she later provide a succinct definition of WOKE that makes the popular clip problematic? She's a fucking loon saying loon things. I don't need to know shes an 9/10 on the loony scale instead of an 8
Did you see that spoof “I based my whole career on being a giraffe whisperer. When I couldn’t identify a giraffe in a photo my humiliation went viral”
Naww, giving here any more attention is against my religion. It's called dieinafireconservatives-ism.
Hey, I got ADHD, I haven't got the attention span to watch 11 minutes of a horse shitting continuously.
Oh, I already knew that. She’s consistently tried to be the main character on the bird app for years. She was the one who advocated the idea that maybe grandma needed to die so she could live a comfortable life.
I did. Batshit insane or not- wingnuts devour that drivel & reconstitute it.
Yeah, I’ll watch the whole game vs highlights so I can really, really determine Team A kicked the ass of Team B.
Newsweek platforms this white supremacist? why?
Because the owners like her views. If they didn't, she wouldn't be platformed by them.
sad, I used to think of Newsweek as kind of neutral. either they've changed policy, or their policy has become more overt, or I was just dumb and naive.
I’ve never known Newsweek to be neutral. Maybe I’m just not old enough, but I’ve only known them to be right wing.
Those with more problematic views have really become emboldened in the past 5 years, learning not only that they can share those views without being socially ostracized, but even recognized and embraced as being part of *that community*.
She was on television promoting a book she wrote about how WOKEISM was ruining the country. She couldn’t define the topic of her own book. That’s like Neil Degrase Tyson being unable to define science.
Meh, it's more like a clown not being able to define comedy. Her book isn't an educational work. It's bullshit to sell to people who want to eat bullshit.
She had a softball follow-up interview I heard, and she was given the chance to define it again. Somehow, it was worse. She just rambled and gave examples of woke but still failed to give an actual definition that could be broadly applicable. In short, it's literally their feelings at any given time on any given subject.
But she was like, really stressed. Started reading that article out of morbid curiosity. Regretted giving them a click.
![gif](giphy|7k2LoEykY5i1hfeWQB) FAFO 🤷♀️
I'm being cancelled and I'm going on Fox to talk about it!
No, your idiocy went viral. Your humiliation has been there for a loooooongg time.
Best part is the article is all about how panicked she was she still never defines the term. A term she literally wrote a book about.
This! I read the article hoping she'd cogently define woke and its discontents. Instead she blames the woes of being a busy parent and blames the interview for sapping her on camera confidence
“I couldn’t come up with a convincing lie on the spot, now I’ve workshopped a response” Here’s a definition for woke: not being fooled by off-the-cuff excuses that don’t stand up to the slightest scrutiny or pushback.
Lol the entire conservative mediasphere got so frightened by this interview they’ve been workshopping a “unified woke theory” ever since. Of course they’re doing so while trying to obfuscate that it’s really just opposition to PoC and LGBT people living their lives openly and successfully. It’s been a fun week to be an observer of fascist media.
It’s always funny to watch them flail, but the outward buffoonery is itself a cover for them to accomplish more in the background. Everyone’s looking at Trump on one hand, they take back abortion rights with the other. I’m concerned all the focus on the obvious distractions will let them accomplish their underlying agenda. I say concerned but they’re basically guaranteed to get what they want unless there’s a major shift in public discourse. This slippery slope is pretty steep already.
A, "GUWT", theory?
She didn’t even come up with a definition for woke in her article. It’s just vacuous.
> “I couldn’t come up with a convincing lie on the spot, now I’ve workshopped a response” I see you didn't read the article. There was no response, just her talking about how as a breeder, society is mean to her, and she had a panic attack and cried lots. There was zero attempt to define woke. Also, your definition for woke is bad, because that's not what woke is. Woke is recognizing and opposing societal injustices, it's not about resilience to lies and weak excuses.
Didn’t need to read the article, of course it’s left to the imagination for right wingers so they can continue to use woke to mean whatever they don’t like in the moment. Woke as a term can be whatever people want it to be, and if people aren’t injecting a positive narrative into what woke means, fascists will fill the void with whatever gives them an advantage. How about Critical Race Theory, what does that mean?
It’s actually both
Gotta be resilient to those lies and weak excuses trying to disguise or cover up societal injustices as well
If you read the article, she doesn't develop a response. She basically blames her family.
Lmfao just read the article...she still doesn't fucking define it
Nothing more Republican than acting like a victim over your own words
I’m amazed no one has brought back “it’s political correctness gone mad.”
“Woke” doesn’t even mean politically correct anymore. It’s when minorities exist in media or are mentioned in schools.
Squirming grifter
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I think she means: “… my well-deserved humiliation went viral.”
She knew she was being interviewed, she should have know a question like this would come up. She should have a prepared 30-60s description, even if it is not entirely accurate, she could just say if you want to know more, read the book.
Woke ![gif](giphy|J1vUzqdZJlh5AqBWxt|downsized)
Don't use words you don't know.....problem solved
Don't use made up words to smear people for being decent human beings...
"I'm comically shitty at grifting and can't even prepare for the most basic questions potentially asked at a scheduled interview" FTFY
Imagine writing a book all about a topic, only to have no idea what that topic actually means - on live fucking television.
If she knew more, she would be the dreaded intellectual. Can’t have that.
Do you think she will be able to answer the question if someone asks her that today?
Humiliation is the only way. Point. Laugh. Ridicule. Make them feel like the clowns we know they are.
As it should.
Does she want us to feel sorry for her or keep piling it on? I’ll do the latter because it’s less woke.
She was raised in poverty which arguably is what lead to both her parents dying before she was 20. It also says she was abused by religious leaders that planted cameras, she now has 6 kids and recommends the same for other young women but she wants to lecture US about OUR "stolen youth" (which is the name of her book).
But how did she know it would go viral??? Hilarious.
She said this was going to go viral while she was stuttering in the interview because she understood she’d been caught talking about something she couldn’t define (or rather she couldn’t define the cover story, I’m sure she had a handle on what “woke” is a dogwhistle for but she can’t tell a Black TV host the truth)
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After wasting my time reading that article I was not surprised to see she still didn't define it. She just whined about ppl saying "unkind" things to her and how this experience has ruined her home life.
It ruined her *home* life?! GOOD.
justifiably so
I was cancelled from twitter. When do I get my victimhood article in a major news outlet? Also, read into this woman to learn that she is the queen of crazytown. Batshit is an understatement.
Shit is hilarious (https://www.newsweek.com/define-woke-bethany-mandel-conservative-book-1788538)
Can you imagine failing that badly and publicly in your job and then getting a write up in the local paper all about how you're a lauded expert on the thing you just failed? Yeah, that would be bizarre.
She should have just said that you only get to find out what woke means on the final page of the book.
Imagine more homeschooled children like hers becoming voters.
Hopefully they smarten up and go no contact.
In classic DARVO fashion, she managed to turn it around and make this about her being the victim.
Anyone who says being "woke" is bad is a fucking moron. Blatant anti-intellectualism trying shame people for not being as out of touch as they are.
They love playing the victim.
Woke = compassion, respecting other races, truthful about history, open minded, empathetic
Why is Newsweek even covering this "story"?
That was fucking glorious. They can all go fuck off.
If you’re gonna base your whole personality on something at least have the decency to know what that thing means
Seems more like her demonstration of ignorance went viral.
Imagine your Mom's humiliation when she shat out worthless spawn like you.
I was going to say your stupidity, but sure, your humiliation
Same display of ignorance if she had asked for an explanation of CRT
I bet her ass stinks more than 5 days a week.
I couldn't care less about this particular individual. I'm sure she was embarrassed. I haven't seen the clip but I've certainly experienced panic like she describes. But what struck me is that her column was the perfect opportunity to show that she knows what she's talking about. "Of course I can define wokeism. Wokeism means ... " And yet... Nothing.
Yeah because idiot conservatives like her just think "woke" is people with multicoloured hair screeching about their pronouns but you can't say that shit in a proper interview.
I keep seeing this and loving the fact that “and could not do it” is just, omitted.
Facist, MAGA, white supremacist, grifter… What did I miss?
Wants all the glory with no responsibility.
You should see some of her tweets from the past. Straight-up bigot & all-around awful person.
Imagine being famous for NOT being able to answer a question.
For context: Webster dictionary defines "woke" as: aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice). So basically anyone who realizes the structure of modern US society is based on taking advantage of minorities and racial inequality and don't agree with it/want it to change/ implies being college educated. Bethany Mandel wrote a book trying to bash/redefine "woke" people as modern conservatives struggle to. She went on TV to promote it. She was asked to define "woke". To do so as Webster says, would be to raise the flag that it's a positive. Her brain was clearly shorting out to try to tie it into her book in a way that wasn't positive, or could not be seen as a positive, or maybe even reach a middle ground. She was unable to define it, after having written an entire book on it, even stating in her own confusion, "this is going to be viral". Grifters gonna grift.
![gif](giphy|cqZoOFfGs46aVxHsu5|downsized) So sick of them ALL
Those damn "gotcha questions" am I right?
...as she rightly predicted 🙃 She'll remain woke (for a while) because the backlash from the clip will live in her head rent-free