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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/03/bethany-mandel-define-woke-video-stolen-youth.html
Slate/Ismail: It’s hard for us to discuss terms like wokeness because there seems to be such a wide disparity in what people mean when they say it.Mandel: I think that people see it in different ways. I see it as an insidious thing that’s happening in America, and other people see it as, um—
An answer to something that’s insidious in America.
Correct.
You say you hear that parents in general believe that the pendulum has swung too far. Is the anti-wokeness movement, and the overall production of so many right-leaning books, swinging the pendulum back too far?
We try not to categorize ourselves that way. We want to see ourselves as more wholesome. But also, our main book of the month was Rush Limbaugh. So, is that characterization necessarily like totally accurate? Obviously not. I’m just being totally honest. We see a hole in the market and I personally think every kid should know who Rush Limbaugh was because he was a very important person in our national discourse and our national dialogue in the media. And you can treat him as Che Guevara, like a saint. I just think it’s important for every kid in America to know who someone like Rush Limbaugh was.
i'm sorry that his ideas and his name are being forced to live on, but also, thank god that rush limbaugh is dead. got what a fucking asshole who really should have died many years earlier. we're lucky that he's not around to make our world worse today as "woke" exploded around the time he finally did one good thing and died