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NextImg:How it's done: Bethany Mandel owns her 'viral brain fart' on wokeness, making woke libs even madder

There’s quite a lot of chatter on liberal Twitter today about the word “woke” and how conservatives can’t seem to define it.

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We can’t be totally sure, but it may have something to with conservative writer and “Stolen Youth” coauthor Bethany Mandel’s recent appearance on Hill TV’s “Rising” with Robby Soave and Briahna Joy Gray:

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Mandel indeed stumbled a bit:

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And she’s taken complete ownership of it:

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Mandel has written a thread to give her own perspective on what happened:

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A human with hardcore mommy brain. A human with hardcore mommy brain who has a new book out about what’s been done to children over the past several years and who had just listened to the cohost of the show she was a guest on talking smack about parents. It’s hard to blame her for briefly losing her verbal footing.

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In any event, Mandel — unlike a lot of liberals who would be fuming in her position — is able to laugh at herself:

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And she hasn’t lost a step in her commitment to fighting wokeness:

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Mandel’s coauthor Karol Markowicz came to her defense (not that Mandel can’t defend herself):

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And many others did, too:

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Great point.

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They can’t.

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There are quite a few of them, of course:

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Good Lord. Mandel have had a brain fart, but those people are just brainless.

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And speaking of Chris Rufo, who often comes up in conversations about wokeness, he’s got something to say about defining wokeness:

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Bethany Mandel will be just fine.

And wokeness will always be toxic.


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