I remember when being woke was like seeing the truth behind things, or noticing things most people didn't. But now it means you can call everything racist and you're a victim of an unjust society.
You're surprised they aired an interview they gave to a establishment liberal guest they invited? Damn, I'd love to plan a birthday party for you if you're that easily surprised.
Exactly. But now that definition has been corrupted by both sides. The left sees race first and everything else never, and the right uses the term to describe anything that doesn’t benefit anyone who isn’t cis, straight, white and male.
To me? Woke or specifically Wokeisim is the ethics and processes of socialisim, expended beyound class struffle, to include race srruffle, gender struggle, sexual struggle, and any other near-infinite number of marginalized groups as defined by intersectionality.
@@janettedewar6617 black people been using woke to mean "aware of racist systems" for over 100 years now, yall dont get to change the definition cus you heard it on the internet
Aside from tossing in the towel so much, what's "extreme" about the GOP and the right? All they do is talk, they don't support grass roots campaigns among their constituents. While the left builds an army as they occupy the US government. The GOP is just a distraction these days.
Yes, because he is more interested in diving into the idea and why he thinks that way than appealing to an emotional response to get cheers from preaching to the choir.
Maybe it's time that we all stopped looking for exact definitions for social attitudes and attaching so much importance to how we are labelled. Just get on with it for goodness sake.
@@erinh9267 no sir caring for others, letting others read the book they want and be who they are, that is a basic human right. That we ALL HAVE AND GET FROM BIRTH!
Who is cancelling? GOP is cancelling books, people, wombs, but they are the unwoke, asleep or dead ones. I still am clueless what is woke and what, then, is the opposite of woke? Lol
Cancel culture is in a real it's called accountability bro it'll literally just a new name for boycotting something but you don't like which is not new
@@Alexis-wg5nxif there are consequences because of your opinion, then there is no freedom of speech. The woke just dont like freedom for people with other opinions.
I'm a liberal on many issues and conservative on 2....I will never vote for either party. That's why Bill makes my gears grind. He promotes antiwokeness while praising Newsom all day long. Gavin is plastic and probably has no real beliefs but there is no state more woke than Cali.
@@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou Had always thought it meant not giving two flipping fucks about ethnicity, speech patterns, disabilities, socioeconomic status, gender, etc. Just treat another person with kindness until they don't deserve it anymore. It doesn't seem like I follow the general definition of woke, because I just don't care about the issues with equality. As with most people, I only care when it effects me personally. Like corrupt cops bothering me, or my right to vote being infringed.
@@wyvvernstone Can't say I relate. To be honest, you sound rather sociopathic. People should-and many do-care about others, even if they aren't directly affected. Society doesn't work when everyone is only looking out for themselves and lack any sense of empathy and compassion for others. And color blindness is an issue when it's used as an excuse for ignoring racism just because you haven't personally caused or observed it. So many of the "anti-woke" crowd think (or claim in bad faith) that racism doesn't actually exist anymore, which is an absurd take.
@@wyvvernstone First of all, it’s “affects.” Secondly, only caring about things that affect you personally isn’t something to brag about. That’s called “selfishness.”
I remember when Jim Carey was called "woke" in like 2017 for pointing out how materialistic & blind society was to coorporate control. The definition must've changed I guess. 🤷♂️
Yes the definition has definitely changed. Jim Carey went through a spiritual awakening so was considered "woke" but now the term woke isn't associated with awakening. Language has become convoluted and seems to evolve generationally where terms aren't aligning - for example gen Z is hijacking the term "snatch" but all prior generations use it to refer to vaginas. "Your face looks snatch." - heard some young person say this to older lady after a facial 🤣💀
The same Jim Carey that praised Christopher Steele for a completely fake and fabricated dossier that he tried to pass off as the truth about Trump. 😂😂😂 Jim Carey is lost in the sauce like a meatball dude.
Crazy how things spun out of control so fast. Once Trump ran for president, it became straight fuckery. That and all the social media. You can't get properly put in check for acting like an asshole behind the screen.
Old School Liberalism held merit. New Age Wokeness is absurd, and its only value is in identifying the people who need to be removed from every level of power and influence.
Well, he did define where the term "woke" started and how it "Morphed into an eye roll" in this full interview. This clip does the full interview an injustice.
But isn't that what liberals do? Base their lives on presenting half the information needed In order to advance their ideas and feelings. Look how many young people hate Trump but can't give a solid answer as to why. I think they just regurgitate the media and what they hear from their friends.
There is a difference between knowing the past and idolising it. Idk, smth is so messed up in some countries, one being america, that historical figures should be idolised or smth, like for gods sake people in america constantly talk about what the founding fathers meant or wanted and ffs, they were fucking slave owners in the 1700s, what they thought was right does not matter, adhering to their belief system is not smth we need to do. Same shit with pretty much every single us president. History should not be made romantic because the present is not romantic.
Lots of words/concepts mean different things to different folks.Such as violence,rascism,gender and so many more. Woke is just a collection of crudely thought-out ideas about perceived injustices.
@@jackhammer3423What is u talkin about. People can't have different opinions about what something means, for example if I say " this is a car" u can't tell me, "no, that's not a car, that is a bike". See? We can't just have different concepts of all the words, like words are what they are by definition, not by opinion. I talk about all this shit mostly cuz these days there are these delusional, fucked up brainless youngsters claiming that the word "gender" is not the same as sex anymore, while in the past and always it had meant the same as sex, but those stupid ass punks think they can change the meaning of it just because of the hell of it, without any necessity other than to defend their own bitch ass victimhood and delusional and retarded ass theories about gender identity. Gen Z is doomed and got the world fucked up.
woke means treating disparate outcomes as proof of oppression on the grounds of some identity, and then demanding major shifts in society as a form of reparation. it's one meaning expressed in multiple descriptions, like most dictionaries you'll find. compare that to the answer for "what is a woman" which has a single description "anyone who identifies as a woman" that nonetheless ends up being completely meaningless, like a script a group of liars agree to use, but that nobody falls for.
1 school in San Francisco This is the biggest difference of right-wing and left-wing. They paint one single act by a select few of people as the entirety of a large group of people thru messaging. The left-wing doesn't do it in return because we can see how flawed the argument is from the beginning but lose to the incessant barage of a repeated single line, regardless of how dumb it is.
Destroy a people’s history and they won’t know who they are. Then you can tell them how miserable a people they were without being challenged and show them the way….to their manipulation and exploitation
I am probably "Woke", to me it means being aware that people can be different to me, many may have different sexual preferences then myself. That climate change might not be a subject to ignore. In fact have never heard anybody ever say "Woke". Have only ever heard it mentioned on the odd news program, or in social media rants.
The opposite of "woke" is asleep: "The owners of this country know the truth... it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it!" - George Carlin
@@adropofgoldensun27 So George Carlin didn't have a career that he loved, spread laughter to the masses and have a family who loved him? Not to mention his own home and he was one of the biggest names in comedy. He didn't have any of that?
@@egyptwns89_26 Idk were you related to him, do you know his life story? Or are you assuming ? Apparently it may have not been so great if he thought that.
This used to be the definition. Wokeness has devolved into a liberal nightmare loaded with virtue signalling, race baiting, professional victims, and degenerates of all kinds. You'd need to be asleep or dead to think Biden is doing a great job, yet all these "woke" people keep cheering him on. Woke no longer means the opposite of asleep. Now it means the opposite of sane.
Defining woke is like trying to define fascism, there isn't a quick definition that hits the mark. It's a loose collection of ideas that shape the ideology.
Fascism is fake capitalism It's seems like capitalism, but in a capitalist society there shouldn't be infinite money printers and govts committing crimes against citizens w/o justice
It's just excessive far left shoehorning their agenda throughout society. It's both just being excessively far left and forcing it down your throat to an extent to where you can't avoid it. Being opposed to "woke" doesn't make you racist, prejudiced or a bigot, it's just where you don't want it mixed in every aspect of society. Instead we see it in movies, products, songs, sports events, etc. It's actually very reasonable, the right doesn't want the left agenda intermixed into everyday life and the left doesn't want the right. They both want the same thing, that's the stupid part. But we're at a point where it seems like we can't even come together on the same desired outcome. Believe it or not, people don't always want to slog through other people's agenda in their daily life. Sometimes you just want to watch a movie and not have it revised with one of every race, gender and sexual preference in a movie, buy a Bud Light without a transgender on the can, see a political protest before a football game. Sometimes people just want to unplug, deload and not be preached to. The left seems to have an issue and discredit anyone who is opposed to the woke ideology because they don't give the Webster definition. It's hilarious trying to watch them avoid and discredit people. Even more funny listening to self-admitted progressives not understanding that words and their meanings evolve.
We tend to forget that our forefathers struggled to build a better democracy, recognizing their own shortcomings. We, like them, may not see our own limitations & shortcomings, & future generations may rip our names off statues.
@@erinh9267 how can you know who you wanna be, if you don’t have a hero? I recognize these statues are NOT heroes but signs of the oppressor. Warnings. And idols. BUT: A hero is someone to emulate, it’s not a savior
The statue in question was not well liked from day one and never should have been erected. The group who designed and commissioned it was run by a white run war relief agency called the western sanitary commission Even Frederic Douglas who spoke at the dedication had his reservations about the statue. Most every statue in the south depicting people from the civil war were erected during the Jim Crow segregation era to intimidate people of color and needed to be removed because of this.
Woke was something that was purely in the black community. It was simply meant to be alert to racial prejudice and discrimination. Then everyone and their 3rd cousin are using it. No one ask liberals to use it or the GOP to whine about it
yeah, but it went from something legitimate to refer to people who take things outside the realm of rationality when it comes to protesting or whatever...like the stuff Bill is talking about. It's only a word, not a definition. Racist used to mean prejudice against an entire race, now it can mean systemic racism, which is a system as racist. Same thing with woke; definitions change. Those are the facts.
It was identity politics when it was part of the "black community", so it really doesn't matter who else is using the term. Although it seems to be exclusively a pejorative term these days....as in, to "out" those who play identity politics. And yea.....if you haven't already guessed, identity politics is about as bad as it gets, which is why we are watching the collapse of Western Civilization.
I think the new corrupted meaning of “woke” should disappear, like Ebonics, a previous made-up word that was used to try to shame, ridicule, and control the establishment.
The right-wing apparently gets it clues from singing cowboys with albums and concerts to advertise. Shooting up beers is very manly and that's what's woke. Whatever makes manly men feel threatened is woke, including the shoes M&Ms wear, history, Mickey, books, poems, make-up, razors, feminine products, cereal, candy, rainbows, colorful hearts, tolerance, equity, children knowing who they are too young, etc. The list gets longer everyday.
“Collection of ideas” - what specific ideas? Lincoln statues being taken down? There’s a very impressive and beautiful monument in Washington D.C. called the Lincoln Monument. The next time you’re with a group of friends or relatives and they bring the word woke into a conversation just ask them what it means, and really think about the answers they give you. Then ask them some more questions about it. I have yet to hear a sensible explanation of what it means to be woke or anti-woke.
I also heard some kids in school were screaming at gearge Washington picture because they said he was ugly so the teacher had to take down his picture. So now you have to look like a supermodel to be excepted. Really. So 😔 sad.
Why aren't the Kardashians already printed on our money? They could put Kim's face on the front of the C note, and her booty on the back. Oh wait... She's not gay. They need to put someone gay on it.
I don't doubt that story one bit. Maybe he was 'model material' in that time period. These kids, and the woke movement specifically, don't understand the basic concept of history. That's sad...and stupid.
"anything that reminds me I don't really care about the systemic problems faced by Black people in America" - I think that's what he was trying to say.
A collection of ideologies and political views grounded in anti-liberal values. Liberal in this instance means valuing individualism and personal freedom over collectivism. Identity politics attempt to lump all people from a group together and assume they all have the same view to use as a political tool, it's very much so against liberal views to lump people together by skin tone or ethnic background and assume they all have the same views.
'Woke' simply means to pay attention. You see what’s happening here? You would if you were “woke.” “Woke” is a colloquial, informal, and familiar present-tense of the verb “awake.” Stop misusing the word woke. If it's to liberal then say that or to conservative then say that. Woke is not and has never been ment to be used this way. Stay woke people!
My wife asked me today what "woke" means. I said as far as I know, it's not clear. After this non answer, I'm more confused than ever. I do know what "slept" means, though...
He’s getting there and everyone sees it but him. He still hold tight to his hatred of Trump. It’s very popular in his circle. He walks on to the set and says Trump sucks and gets the applause he needs.
Bill Maher is a traditional liberal. It's just that the younger generations are to ignorant and uneducated to recognize it. "Liberal" means open minded, flexible, able to view both sides without preconceived judgements. "Liberal" used to be a good thing. Now, "progressivism" has destroyed the legitimate credibility that liberal thinkers used to enjoy. No "liberal" ever ran away from a free and open debate. Now, woke progressives shout down alternative viewpoints instead of taking the challange head on. Wokism is intellectual cowardice.
He's been a liberal thru out his adult life, and no one questioned it until the new woke came up. And now the new woke call him with different names, claiming they're right and everyone else is wrong.
What’s fucked about America is that you’re trying to take a mixture pc millions of different beliefs and literally give them 2 to 3 colors. Republican democrat liberal. There are so many colors and trying to combine all your beliefs into one “color” and claim your VERY limited side is beyond fucked.
Woke is being aware of social injustice, so, being aware of the negative parts of U.S. History. Which is an educational thing and good for spreading awareness.
What you describe sounds like the universalist movements of the past, and not so much the more identitarian radical movements that have dominated the academic discourse in the last 10 years
But not all negative parts are included. How about the Irish people first came to America. They were treated like crap and treated like they were slaves to the English people. But because Irish are white. They don't bring it up. Let's tell the truth. It (woke) only applies to non whites. How non whites were treated. And to top of that. Other truth are hiding. Like blacks where sold to white Americans by other blacks in Africa. Or that there was free blacks who own blacks in america or how some Indian tribes like the creek Indians own black slaves as well or how the English took land away from Indians even tho that was taking place already before whites came to this land. Indian tribes would slaughter other Indian tribes and take over their land in this country. Wokiness is a joke because it's an attack on white people. Look what's going on now. Black on black violence kills more blacks then cops or racist non blacks combined. Top of that. Do you know what has killed more blacks in america then what the south did or cops or racist none blacks combined??? Abortions. Abortions has killed more blacks then anything else in america history and the left promotes it big time. Not surprised tho. The democratic party was the party who started the kkk. Democrats owned slaves. And it wasn't the democrats who freed the slaves or even push the civil rights movement in the 60s. That was the Republicans. But somehow in the past 82 years. The democrats are saying it's the Republicans who are the racist party. And have decieved many into believing this even tho the democrats hasn't done nothing for the black community. Zero. Besides keep the black man down and making promises during voting time that they never keep. So let's speak the whole truth and not half of it and woke doesn't do that....
@@Timur21 ------ "Be woke" is a term used by Black people while traveling in the South to be aware they are traveling in a potentially hostile environment. The Green Book (used 1936 to 1966) was written and published so Black people would know of friendly accommodations. Today people use it incorrectly. Another cultural appropriation. I'm surprised you didn't know.
@@VotersPamphlet I know the term was recycled, but that happens all the time.. The term fascist was also recycled and doesnt mean what it used to mean. The term racist as well.. words get recycled and redefined..
@@MrBennieagray There is no single agreed definition of woke. However, it is associated with ideas involving identity and race.. It then transfotmed to over-wokeness. being overly righteous on all things related to identy and race. Now, being woke is attached to the extreme type of wokeness and not the original type. Today, when you are called woke, it means your are overly woke since it is seldom used now in a positive sense.
@unvaccinated6467 ok. To me conservatives means your against the teachings of God. Especially God Donald since we seen literally status of him and people going to it and praying to it.
Wokeness is what conservatives call it when they _proverbially_ stop punching somebody in the face and that person doesn’t just agree that everything is square.
@@priceandpride Think about it. Liberal is all about freedom of speech and behavior. Woke is all about what you aren't allowed to say or do. Or think for that matter.
That's because Bill Maher no longer has any fans so like all other bad comedians he is placating to right wing people. The fact that he mentions people like Jordan Peterson proves it.
being conscious (and actively opposing) of inequalities and inadequacies perpetuated within the political or economic spectrum towards black people (originated by black people in usa) .
Thing is, the term has been overused, and abused. Originally it just meant being aware of social issues, and was primarily used in the black community in reference to their struggles. It just meant you were "awake" to things like systemic racism. "Get woke!" Meant "educate yourself" in relation to those issues. But then, as with many things, white liberals picked it up and turned it into their wider crusade on social justice. And they kind of ruined it. Then conservatives started using it as a negative, and representative of "social justice" and leftism in general. So "woke" has come to mean something different depending on who you are and your own political leanings. Really it's almost too controversial, clearly even among some liberals, like Maher. So if someone asked me this question I have to just say, "according to whom?"
I miss when black topics and black culture was amongst blacks. The fact that Woke is a dirty word now is just convenient for the power structures... and the racists.
I agree, I hate that it turned into that but at the end of the day. Racists are finidng new ways to hide their racism by being in opposition to words like woke and misinterpreting the true meaning of what it means. For our people, however, I’ve heard a lot of us say “conscious” instead
Thank you for asking that question. I am so confused by the meaning of this new made-up term. Some people say it means “black,” others say it means”Democratic.” And still others say it means socially conscious and compassionate.
It already had a definite meaning and definition before Bill Maher and Republicans bastardized it like they do everything. Woke is "alert to and concerned about social injustice and discrimination." Everything else is propaganda spin from racists and the rich who don't wanna solve injustice because it serves them.
It's a shame he didn't answer it. My understanding of the origin of the term is that it's about being willing to see some unpleasant truths, see the world from more than one perspective, and generally stopping the shaming and silencing that has been done for centuries. People often complain about someone getting into trouble for something they said 20 years ago. Often, though, often people who say stuff like that publicly still hold on to a lot of those beliefs. Also, if the person had come forward 20 years ago when it happened, they could have been ignored, fired, shamed, or even beaten and killed. Just look at how Monica Lewinsky was bashed by the press and the late night hosts, while Clinton practically got a pat on the back.
@@andrewtorrens7790 In his 1938 song about the Scottsboro Boys, nine black boys falsely accused of raping two white women, Lead Belly wrote as a warning to black people, “So I advise everybody, be a little careful - best stay woke, keep their eyes open." Anti woke=anti black.
In his 1938 song about the Scottsboro Boys, nine black boys falsely accused of raping two white women, Lead Belly wrote as a warning to black people, “So I advise everybody, be a little careful - best stay woke, keep their eyes open." Anti woke=anti black.
@Andrew Torrens ... One concern: the woke are the biggest perpetrators of shaming and silencing. Canceling someone is ultimate silencing! And the woke are among the least tolerant of differing perspectives! Shouting down opposing viewpoints is not tolerant nor demonstrating a willingness to consider other perspectives. So if the definition of woke ever WAS as you suggest, it certainly does NOT seem to be the case now.
To me, being woke in part is also undoing the white savior mythology, and recognizing the value of having people of different cultural experiences. Bill is Struggling with the first part, he doesn’t seem to like people being critical of his mythology.
It was, but like alot of things it's been warped into something else. And yes, despite the right overusing it, the Left claim to be woke and progressive despite the contrary.
Bill has become irrational over this issue. One statue of Abraham Lincoln with a slave kneeling before him was deemed controversial, that's all. He is still an American hero. It's the right who wishes to prevent the progress that began with Lincoln.
@@toastnjam7384 There was also a bust of Lincoln removed (and since replaced) at Cornell. But I think Lee C is correct in pointing out that removal of Lincoln statues has not occurred on a widespread basis, at least not yet.
@@zeenuf00 Oh no, leftists do have ideologies. Not one single ideology, same as conservatives, but they do have them. They tend to be less bizarrely in denial about it. Thing is, "wokeism" is not "leftist ideology". It's minorities being treated well. Or getting to exist at all. "Wokeism" is not an ideology, it's a euphemism for "all the things conservatives find weird, alien, or gross"
@@John_TalksGiants The dominant opinion of a historical figure is not a hinge on which the whole of liberalism rests. The world will not collapse if Abraham Lincoln's legacy is reexamined or even judged lesser than the near-god-king status some ascribe to him :)
When you go from defending people's rights to get a job based on merit irrespective of their race, to giving someone a job based on their race irrespective of merit. When you go from defending women's rights to defending a religious group's right to deny women their rights. When you go from defending freedom of speech to dictating what speech should be free. To me, that is when you go from being a liberal to being "woke", irrespective of what it was originally supposed to mean. The woke mob is just as bad as the far-right.
No... it's far more dangerous to liberty... and it rose up from the left... 😮 Dump your party loyalty. Neither party is faithful to their platform and both practice fascist economic policies... Partnership between corporations and government. They both serve their own businesses... not regularly citizens. 😮
@KK-fi6ms: Not clicking on that BS. I’l take far right over far left any day of the week. Not to mention people get labeled as far right when they are plain conservatives.
Wokeness is the ability to be more offended than the next person and then ensure that you communicate how insufferably intolerant THEY are because of their acceptance of diversity.
Since the term became political, ie. when the Left began using it to describe the progressive acceptance of people's differences, choices, rights, and equal worth, the meaning of "woke" expanded from its narrower, original meaning. However, I'd suggest that in both its original & expanded uses, "woke" didn't refer to a stance on trans rights or gender identity. The rightwingers put that idea onto it. They twisted it into a pejorative catch-all term for liberal values, rather than a term that previously could've been described as neutral, if not admirable (insomuch as it broadly referred to a state of awareness, enlightenment, recognition, or not being deceived). My understanding was that it originally described an awareness of society's embedded hierarchy of classes/races & an acknowledgement of the unconscious bias/inequality most white people are in denial of. Since conservatives reflexively activate a self-righteous & defensive shield (perceiving a threat to their yet unacknowledged privilege) whenever those they look down upon offer constructive criticism, or suggest there's anything wrong with society as _they've_ crafted it, they immediately villainized the word & everyone associated with it when liberals popularized its use.
A democrat or independent voter should never be tasked with defining woke. This was another catch phrase/word brought into existence by Republicans. It’s the middle of April, 2023 and I have yet to hear a republican define it to the point that it makes sense in every application they use it.
"woke" means you are fully programmable by the govt, your beliefs always align with the State and corporations. You are so anti-racist that you hate people with white skin for simply having white skin. You are so compassionate about the health of others that you force others to breathe exhaled carbon dioxide, and get injected with experiments with no long term studies. You are so loving and caring of others' feelings that objective reality can be twisted and warped to placate people's feelings because that is the most important thing. Woke means you are a govt shill without being paid.
The word" woke" wasnt used. Or another word was used instead. "Woke" now ,seems to be associated with disagreeing with the "old " or " usual" way of doing things. Or if u disagree with a"woke" person , then ur a racist or just wrong because the "woke" person is always right...they dont Seem to b open for discussion. They come off as not being able to agree to disagree😢
As the tower of wokeness is dismantled, we will find Bill at the bottom, as part of the foundation. People like him were instrumental in this mess. He was an influencer before the internet.
@@Fluffy6555 Wokeness is the pursuit of progressive ideology, to the point it becomes socially regressive. Ex. wanting to end racism, by tearing down statues of Lincoln. Or wanting to end racism by segregating college students on the basis of race. There since you apparently can't figure definition from example. I gave you both.
@@queenofhearts7503 it would be hard for me to do that without broad generalizations. Basically there's a bunch of sociological factors, when looked at holistically, give us the conclusion that the person we are observing is a woman. You do not need to meet all of these factors or even most of them, but here's a list: clothes such as dresses skirts tank tops or blouses, makeup, long and/or stylized hair, jewellery, being interested in fashion and/or beauty, taking on submissive social roles including in dating, drinking wine instead of beer, taking on carer occupations including nursing and teaching, enjoying romance genres in media, etc. You may find this definition unhelpful or indefinitive, but that's just sociology. The factors I've mentioned even only cover western civilization's definition of a woman. However, you would agree with me that these factors are generally associated with women, despite there being no biological motivation. Because gender is socially constructed.
@@leviathsvale6787 says the people who are the worst racists the world has ever seen. If you guys could be in charge of what race means, we wouldn’t be in this mess. Why do you take your own opinion seriously? It’s the blacks who should be running this. Y’all should be shutting precisely the fuck up
Since the term became political, ie. when the Left began using it to describe the progressive acceptance of people's differences, choices, rights, and equal worth, the meaning of "woke" expanded from its narrower, original meaning. However, I'd suggest that in both its original & expanded uses, "woke" didn't refer to a stance on trans rights or gender identity. The rightwingers put that idea onto it. They twisted it into a pejorative catch-all term for liberal values, rather than a term that previously could've been described as neutral, if not admirable (insomuch as it broadly referred to a state of awareness, enlightenment, recognition, or not being deceived). My understanding was that it originally described an awareness of society's embedded hierarchy of classes/races & an acknowledgement of the unconscious bias/inequality most white people are in denial of. Since conservatives reflexively activate a self-righteous & defensive shield (perceiving a threat to their yet unacknowledged privilege) whenever those they look down upon offer constructive criticism, or suggest there's anything wrong with society as _they've_ crafted it, they immediately villainized the word & everyone associated with it when liberals popularized its use.
An Anti Woke storybook “And then Lincoln, who was perfect, freed the slaves. The civil war ended, we all had big laugh, and now racism is over. The end.”
I remember when being woke was like seeing the truth behind things, or noticing things most people didn't. But now it means you can call everything racist and you're a victim of an unjust society.
Is that what it means? LOL Who's the "victim"?
Victims are victims and they are not particularly woke. People are equating woke and angry. Sorry but they aren’t the same.
Woke began when liberals changed the meaning of the word gay. (From Happy to homosexual)
@@ianharman9499 So in other words, it's been around for a loooong time, yet Henny Penny Republicans pretend it started with Joe Biden. LOL
Aw, have you been called a racist? I never have. Fascinating.
I'm surprised that CNN even published this
You're surprised they aired an interview they gave to a establishment liberal guest they invited? Damn, I'd love to plan a birthday party for you if you're that easily surprised.
@@RobinTahHood when it comes to cnn yes lmao
@@RobinTahHood Cnn isn't one who would normally.
@@RobinTahHoodThey usually edit it so that you think it’s exactly what they want you to think.
@@RobinTahHoodMaher is now considered right wing!! The Young turds are offended by everything he says
"Woke" is when you had your coffee in the morning and then you feel alert
Grow up
@@mmr7484 Thats..thats literally what it means
A word can have multiple definitions. Most do.
@@collections3119 I don't think that's true..
@@JC-de1ik Then you're either a troll or a fool. To say that a word can't have more than one meaning is demonstrably false.
Woke used to be just awareness. Now its become overcompensation.
Exactly. But now that definition has been corrupted by both sides. The left sees race first and everything else never, and the right uses the term to describe anything that doesn’t benefit anyone who isn’t cis, straight, white and male.
To me?
Woke or specifically
Wokeisim is the ethics and processes of socialisim, expended beyound class struffle, to include race srruffle, gender struggle, sexual struggle, and any other
near-infinite number of marginalized groups as defined by intersectionality.
Woke i think was politically correctness and now its just wooly feeble minded cowardliness.
@@darkzeroprojects4245based on lies
@@janettedewar6617 black people been using woke to mean "aware of racist systems" for over 100 years now, yall dont get to change the definition cus you heard it on the internet
The extremes in both parties get way too much airtime.
Wow, you're the guy to set the world on fire, achieve a great deal!!!
The only form of extremism that we have to worry about is the new woke orthodoxy.
Aside from tossing in the towel so much, what's "extreme" about the GOP and the right? All they do is talk, they don't support grass roots campaigns among their constituents. While the left builds an army as they occupy the US government. The GOP is just a distraction these days.
@@danielward7008 nope the maga cult is worse.
If y’all actually gave the radical left airtime you would’ve known about this decades ago
He is being very polite.
If he weren’t i bet we all wouldn’t see it on very woke CNN shorts
No, he's being vague because he can't properly define what "woke" means. Because he's an idiot.
@@warribe haha 👍
Yes, because he is more interested in diving into the idea and why he thinks that way than appealing to an emotional response to get cheers from preaching to the choir.
Yeah, you should have seen him shaming Bernie Sanders for daring to run for potus while Jewish.
I woke up,therefore I am.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Maybe it's time that we all stopped looking for exact definitions for social attitudes and attaching so much importance to how we are labelled. Just get on with it for goodness sake.
Woke??? I woke up at 6:55 this morning...that's "woke"!!!🤬
Yes, I understand that description, ha, ha, ha x
Looks like an Italian last name, there. Do you know about the harassment of Italians in the United States? Woke people care about that.
@@erinh9267 so woke is caring about humans?
@@enough1494 caring and being aware of the challenges they may face, yes.
@@erinh9267 no sir caring for others, letting others read the book they want and be who they are, that is a basic human right. That we ALL HAVE AND GET FROM BIRTH!
Woke
Verb: Past tense of wake.
😂 that's what it was created to be, nothing else.
A wake is what you have when someone is dead. Woke is the past tense of wake, meaning dead. As in brain dead. I get it now.
@@newyoutubewhodis perfect description 🌟
Woke is the subconscious that is programming or social engineering...very difficult to rise above...woke as presented today is asleep
@Michael Morgan my boat makes a wake, the origins of a wake was to get drunk and try to raise the dead
50 to 75 years from now or maybe even sooner, cancel culture will be canceled by someone else's culture. Now there's irony!
Who is cancelling? GOP is cancelling books, people, wombs, but they are the unwoke, asleep or dead ones. I still am clueless what is woke and what, then, is the opposite of woke? Lol
Cancel culture is in a real it's called accountability bro it'll literally just a new name for boycotting something but you don't like which is not new
@@jakecutter1487are you a Christian by any chance you sound like it
“Cancel culture” has always and will always be a thing. It’s just that back then, people called it “consequences for your actions”
@@Alexis-wg5nxif there are consequences because of your opinion, then there is no freedom of speech.
The woke just dont like freedom for people with other opinions.
Im 62 years old. Bill and i are going through the same thing. We are both "LEFT behind liberals"
You mean moderate.
He didn't explain what woke means
why are you still a lib?
I'm a liberal on many issues and conservative on 2....I will never vote for either party. That's why Bill makes my gears grind. He promotes antiwokeness while praising Newsom all day long. Gavin is plastic and probably has no real beliefs but there is no state more woke than Cali.
@@SteviePeters-x3u Because real libs are not woke. And I will not let it ruin the basic principles I believe in.
Thank you Bill
Dullard.
@@bartstarr100 Congratulations again on learning a new word.
Had someone tell me that I am woke...but wouldn't/couldn't define it for me. I asked repeatedly to no avail.
I like to ask them if they're asleep.
Nowadays it means anyone who isn't a right-winger.
@@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou Had always thought it meant not giving two flipping fucks about ethnicity, speech patterns, disabilities, socioeconomic status, gender, etc. Just treat another person with kindness until they don't deserve it anymore.
It doesn't seem like I follow the general definition of woke, because I just don't care about the issues with equality.
As with most people, I only care when it effects me personally. Like corrupt cops bothering me, or my right to vote being infringed.
@@wyvvernstone Can't say I relate. To be honest, you sound rather sociopathic. People should-and many do-care about others, even if they aren't directly affected. Society doesn't work when everyone is only looking out for themselves and lack any sense of empathy and compassion for others. And color blindness is an issue when it's used as an excuse for ignoring racism just because you haven't personally caused or observed it. So many of the "anti-woke" crowd think (or claim in bad faith) that racism doesn't actually exist anymore, which is an absurd take.
@@wyvvernstone First of all, it’s “affects.”
Secondly, only caring about things that affect you personally isn’t something to brag about. That’s called “selfishness.”
I remember when Jim Carey was called "woke" in like 2017 for pointing out how materialistic & blind society was to coorporate control. The definition must've changed I guess. 🤷♂️
Yes the definition has definitely changed. Jim Carey went through a spiritual awakening so was considered "woke" but now the term woke isn't associated with awakening. Language has become convoluted and seems to evolve generationally where terms aren't aligning - for example gen Z is hijacking the term "snatch" but all prior generations use it to refer to vaginas. "Your face looks snatch." - heard some young person say this to older lady after a facial 🤣💀
If you don’t think you’re little woke movement has been hijacked and commodified then you didn’t listen to what Carey was saying.
The same Jim Carey that praised Christopher Steele for a completely fake and fabricated dossier that he tried to pass off as the truth about Trump. 😂😂😂 Jim Carey is lost in the sauce like a meatball dude.
It has. Or at least politics has included it in their talking points.
No denying that Carry drank the Koolaid though. Dude turned into a Hollywood flake.
Was asked this in the pub last week.Woke is Fear. Masquerading as politeness.
That's not what it means smooth brain
Boy do I miss 5 to 10 years ago.
I miss the 80’s
@@jonathancupp3686 That era moreso. 😊
Crazy how things spun out of control so fast. Once Trump ran for president, it became straight fuckery. That and all the social media. You can't get properly put in check for acting like an asshole behind the screen.
When Obama was Pres 😊
@@nicoleburris4817 Yup
That's a start. Liberal used to mean pro-peace, truth in journalism, live and let live. Now all that falls under "Old School Liberal."
Old School Liberalism held merit.
New Age Wokeness is absurd, and its only value is in identifying the people who need to be removed from every level of power and influence.
Yes, the liberals want to be victim regardless of everybody opinion.
Don’t forget “for the workers,” it’s very sad liberals have moved away from that for these culture issues.
Those are alt-right traits now. Weird how everything flipped.
But are there any old school libs reporting?
Well, he did define where the term "woke" started and how it "Morphed into an eye roll" in this full interview. This clip does the full interview an injustice.
That’s good info thanks for letting us know. M is smarter than he sounds here
But isn't that what liberals do? Base their lives on presenting half the information needed In order to advance their ideas and feelings.
Look how many young people hate Trump but can't give a solid answer as to why. I think they just regurgitate the media and what they hear from their friends.
History is history, it can be good or bad. ..we can learn from the good to not repeat the bad!!
Woke has zero to do with history or its teaching.
There is a difference between knowing the past and idolising it. Idk, smth is so messed up in some countries, one being america, that historical figures should be idolised or smth, like for gods sake people in america constantly talk about what the founding fathers meant or wanted and ffs, they were fucking slave owners in the 1700s, what they thought was right does not matter, adhering to their belief system is not smth we need to do. Same shit with pretty much every single us president. History should not be made romantic because the present is not romantic.
Dont let conservatives hear you saying that. Thats "making children ashamed to be white" according to them.
Let's not repeat the Bolshevics mistakes. Or that of Lenin, Mao and Hitler.
Examples of the Left gone too far.
Bingo! My 9th grade history teacher said the exact same thing.
Woke is when I wake up to go do grown human things instead of crying about other things 😂 I'm fully awake lol
Ñuńca tobiadorais części samochodowe przez Internet a lot ž y ochotę.
The fact that woke means something different to literally everyone means it’s not even a real thing anymore
Lots of words/concepts mean different things to different folks.Such as violence,rascism,gender and so many more.
Woke is just a collection of crudely thought-out ideas about perceived injustices.
Words are not violence. Newspeak is a cult
@@jackhammer3423What is u talkin about. People can't have different opinions about what something means, for example if I say " this is a car" u can't tell me, "no, that's not a car, that is a bike". See? We can't just have different concepts of all the words, like words are what they are by definition, not by opinion.
I talk about all this shit mostly cuz these days there are these delusional, fucked up brainless youngsters claiming that the word "gender" is not the same as sex anymore, while in the past and always it had meant the same as sex, but those stupid ass punks think they can change the meaning of it just because of the hell of it, without any necessity other than to defend their own bitch ass victimhood and delusional and retarded ass theories about gender identity. Gen Z is doomed and got the world fucked up.
Same is true with religion
woke means treating disparate outcomes as proof of oppression on the grounds of some identity, and then demanding major shifts in society as a form of reparation. it's one meaning expressed in multiple descriptions, like most dictionaries you'll find. compare that to the answer for "what is a woman" which has a single description "anyone who identifies as a woman" that nonetheless ends up being completely meaningless, like a script a group of liars agree to use, but that nobody falls for.
Name one school where Lincoln's name was removed.
Game, set, match
1 school in San Francisco
This is the biggest difference of right-wing and left-wing. They paint one single act by a select few of people as the entirety of a large group of people thru messaging.
The left-wing doesn't do it in return because we can see how flawed the argument is from the beginning but lose to the incessant barage of a repeated single line, regardless of how dumb it is.
Snowflakes reported my link hahahahahahahahahaha. Google it everyone else
@@christianbrenes664 Person said name 1 school. I did. GAME, SET, GO HOME
@@christianbrenes664the left-wing doesn't do it in return😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I've been saying it...!!!!!!! Over and Over again!!!
I notice the folks who claim things are woke, don’t seem to know what it means
If you think Abraham Lincoln is a controversial figure you are woke. If you aren’t proud to be American you are probably woke.
Destroy a people’s history and they won’t know who they are. Then you can tell them how miserable a people they were without being challenged and show them the way….to their manipulation and exploitation
Like how the natives were treated. But what’s real woke, and what’s not woke is the question. I see conservatives denying everything as woke.
Or reveal the actual history and wake people up so we don’t repeat it. Not a fan of burying my head in the sand.
Exactly what happened to the African slaves in America.
There's no liberals in Bedrock. Fred held 1950s traditional values through and through.
😂😂😂😂😂
By Constantly-sheepishly
apolgizing
to Whilma?! Being the quintasintial bombastic
loud-mouth; crappy friend!?
I am probably "Woke", to me it means being aware that people can be different to me, many may have different sexual preferences then myself. That climate change might not be a subject to ignore. In fact have never heard anybody ever say "Woke". Have only ever heard it mentioned on the odd news program, or in social media rants.
The opposite of "woke" is asleep:
"The owners of this country know the truth... it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it!"
- George Carlin
And yet he lived it. That was always funny to me.
@@egyptwns89_26 lived what? A dream? Hardly
@@adropofgoldensun27 So George Carlin didn't have a career that he loved, spread laughter to the masses and have a family who loved him? Not to mention his own home and he was one of the biggest names in comedy. He didn't have any of that?
@@egyptwns89_26 Idk were you related to him, do you know his life story? Or are you assuming ? Apparently it may have not been so great if he thought that.
This used to be the definition.
Wokeness has devolved into a liberal nightmare loaded with virtue signalling, race baiting, professional victims, and degenerates of all kinds.
You'd need to be asleep or dead to think Biden is doing a great job, yet all these "woke" people keep cheering him on.
Woke no longer means the opposite of asleep. Now it means the opposite of sane.
Defining woke is like trying to define fascism, there isn't a quick definition that hits the mark. It's a loose collection of ideas that shape the ideology.
Fascism is fake capitalism
It's seems like capitalism, but in a capitalist society there shouldn't be infinite money printers and govts committing crimes against citizens w/o justice
It's just excessive far left shoehorning their agenda throughout society. It's both just being excessively far left and forcing it down your throat to an extent to where you can't avoid it. Being opposed to "woke" doesn't make you racist, prejudiced or a bigot, it's just where you don't want it mixed in every aspect of society. Instead we see it in movies, products, songs, sports events, etc.
It's actually very reasonable, the right doesn't want the left agenda intermixed into everyday life and the left doesn't want the right. They both want the same thing, that's the stupid part. But we're at a point where it seems like we can't even come together on the same desired outcome.
Believe it or not, people don't always want to slog through other people's agenda in their daily life. Sometimes you just want to watch a movie and not have it revised with one of every race, gender and sexual preference in a movie, buy a Bud Light without a transgender on the can, see a political protest before a football game. Sometimes people just want to unplug, deload and not be preached to.
The left seems to have an issue and discredit anyone who is opposed to the woke ideology because they don't give the Webster definition. It's hilarious trying to watch them avoid and discredit people. Even more funny listening to self-admitted progressives not understanding that words and their meanings evolve.
It's simply Progressive Leftist social justice rhetorict and ideology.
We tend to forget that our forefathers struggled to build a better democracy, recognizing their own shortcomings. We, like them, may not see our own limitations & shortcomings, & future generations may rip our names off statues.
I thumbs upped you BUT THIS: not ALL statues are built in good faith and for honorable reasons
@@fredhollis3749 indeed
Good. Hero worship can make us learn a sense of helplessness. Cast down idols.
@@erinh9267 how can you know who you wanna be, if you don’t have a hero? I recognize these statues are NOT heroes but signs of the oppressor. Warnings. And idols. BUT: A hero is someone to emulate, it’s not a savior
The statue in question was not well liked from day one and never should have been erected. The group who designed and commissioned it was run by a white run war relief agency called the western sanitary commission Even Frederic Douglas who spoke at the dedication had his reservations about the statue. Most every statue in the south depicting people from the civil war were erected during the Jim Crow segregation era to intimidate people of color and needed to be removed because of this.
He did all that talkin and didn’t define it 🤣
He is the last person to ask this question.
It took him sooooo long to even notice the issues. But better late than never, right?
Nice to see a liberal waking up.
Woke was something that was purely in the black community. It was simply meant to be alert to racial prejudice and discrimination. Then everyone and their 3rd cousin are using it. No one ask liberals to use it or the GOP to whine about it
And no one cares if it came from the black community. The black community doesnt own the word woke.
It’s the cult that used to be the GOP, that uses the word “woke,” and they can’t even define it.
yeah, but it went from something legitimate to refer to people who take things outside the realm of rationality when it comes to protesting or whatever...like the stuff Bill is talking about. It's only a word, not a definition. Racist used to mean prejudice against an entire race, now it can mean systemic racism, which is a system as racist. Same thing with woke; definitions change. Those are the facts.
It was identity politics when it was part of the "black community", so it really doesn't matter who else is using the term. Although it seems to be exclusively a pejorative term these days....as in, to "out" those who play identity politics.
And yea.....if you haven't already guessed, identity politics is about as bad as it gets, which is why we are watching the collapse of Western Civilization.
@@albinosquirlz Yeah, like how the GOP has basically become a "Christian" party instead of just one for people who want a small government.
I think the “anti-woke” crowd needs to put out an official guide for what would make something “woke” or not
I think the new corrupted meaning of “woke” should disappear, like Ebonics, a previous made-up word that was used to try to shame, ridicule, and control the establishment.
Either you get it, or you don’t. It sounds like you don’t.
The right-wing apparently gets it clues from singing cowboys with albums and concerts to advertise. Shooting up beers is very manly and that's what's woke. Whatever makes manly men feel threatened is woke, including the shoes M&Ms wear, history, Mickey, books, poems, make-up, razors, feminine products, cereal, candy, rainbows, colorful hearts, tolerance, equity, children knowing who they are too young, etc. The list gets longer everyday.
@@thequietlion3553 Baloney. If you cannot define, you are going purely on emotions, not definition.
@@thequietlion3553 sounds like a cop out because you don't have an answer
“Collection of ideas” - what specific ideas? Lincoln statues being taken down? There’s a very impressive and beautiful monument in Washington D.C. called the Lincoln Monument. The next time you’re with a group of friends or relatives and they bring the word woke into a conversation just ask them what it means, and really think about the answers they give you. Then ask them some more questions about it. I have yet to hear a sensible explanation of what it means to be woke or anti-woke.
I also heard some kids in school were screaming at gearge Washington picture because they said he was ugly so the teacher had to take down his picture. So now you have to look like a supermodel to be excepted. Really. So 😔 sad.
Yeah, you "heard" really? Fox News?
@MotherofCats For yes CNN is a cover up for news.
Cat killer sayes " all news fake 🤣🤣🤣"
Why aren't the Kardashians already printed on our money? They could put Kim's face on the front of the C note, and her booty on the back. Oh wait... She's not gay. They need to put someone gay on it.
I don't doubt that story one bit. Maybe he was 'model material' in that time period. These kids, and the woke movement specifically, don't understand the basic concept of history. That's sad...and stupid.
How is he on tv giving a false definition of woke, wait, did he even actually define it?
😂😂
Lol. When parroting words you’ve heard goes wrong
You should read the rest of the comment section. You're not the majority.
Where Bill where did "they" rear down a Lincoln statue?
Bought and sold whatta putz....
I think I missed it, what was his definition?
"anything that reminds me I don't really care about the systemic problems faced by Black people in America" - I think that's what he was trying to say.
it means racist and sexist bigotry
Ha has no clue.
A collection of ideologies and political views grounded in anti-liberal values. Liberal in this instance means valuing individualism and personal freedom over collectivism. Identity politics attempt to lump all people from a group together and assume they all have the same view to use as a political tool, it's very much so against liberal views to lump people together by skin tone or ethnic background and assume they all have the same views.
@Jax Miller I think you misunderstood my question, I asked what was his definition of "Woke" (as he articulated in that in interview).
Let me ask you this; whose idea was it to tear down Abe Lincoln statue?
Literally nobody is arguing that
@@Ironcorgi2 it was just a question dude....
Where did this Lincoln cancelling happen, I've heard nothing about this.
He made it up
Look up the president statues being torn down
'Woke' simply means to pay attention. You see what’s happening here? You would if you were “woke.” “Woke” is a colloquial, informal, and familiar present-tense of the verb “awake.”
Stop misusing the word woke. If it's to liberal then say that or to conservative then say that.
Woke is not and has never been ment to be used this way.
Stay woke people!
“I could mention so many issues like that but instead I’ll vaguely gesture at Lincoln and not do that”
in 1956, William Maher was born in New York City to a Jewish mother and Catholic father.
My wife asked me today what "woke" means. I said as far as I know, it's not clear. After this non answer, I'm more confused than ever. I do know what "slept" means, though...
first thing CNN posted that i agree with
Bill is now officially UNWOKE
Good for him
He’s getting there and everyone sees it but him. He still hold tight to his hatred of Trump. It’s very popular in his circle.
He walks on to the set and says Trump sucks and gets the applause he needs.
'Every revolution betrays itself'.
Yeah, just try to say something!
Quotes are in books or on ChatGPT.
Spambot~malware has more to say then you. Why did you comment😮?
Bill Maher calls himself liberal? Now that's something only possible in America. Exceptionalism!!
Bill Maher is a traditional liberal. It's just that the younger generations are to ignorant and uneducated to recognize it. "Liberal" means open minded, flexible, able to view both sides without preconceived judgements. "Liberal" used to be a good thing. Now, "progressivism" has destroyed the legitimate credibility that liberal thinkers used to enjoy. No "liberal" ever ran away from a free and open debate. Now, woke progressives shout down alternative viewpoints instead of taking the challange head on. Wokism is intellectual cowardice.
He’s no liberal. He’s a libertarian
@@diane4peace Ah. Not that firm in labels - but that means he's a conservative neo-lib, right? Small government and what not? Or in other words: Ass?
He's been a liberal thru out his adult life, and no one questioned it until the new woke came up. And now the new woke call him with different names, claiming they're right and everyone else is wrong.
What’s fucked about America is that you’re trying to take a mixture pc millions of different beliefs and literally give them 2 to 3 colors. Republican democrat liberal. There are so many colors and trying to combine all your beliefs into one “color” and claim your VERY limited side is beyond fucked.
It's funny how this no word is used so differently depending upon who says it ..and it's said way too often.
Woke is being aware of social injustice, so, being aware of the negative parts of U.S. History. Which is an educational thing and good for spreading awareness.
What you describe sounds like the universalist movements of the past, and not so much the more identitarian radical movements that have dominated the academic discourse in the last 10 years
@@Timur21 What-
But not all negative parts are included.
How about the Irish people first came to America. They were treated like crap and treated like they were slaves to the English people. But because Irish are white. They don't bring it up.
Let's tell the truth. It (woke) only applies to non whites. How non whites were treated.
And to top of that. Other truth are hiding.
Like blacks where sold to white Americans by other blacks in Africa. Or that there was free blacks who own blacks in america or how some Indian tribes like the creek Indians own black slaves as well or how the English took land away from Indians even tho that was taking place already before whites came to this land. Indian tribes would slaughter other Indian tribes and take over their land in this country.
Wokiness is a joke because it's an attack on white people.
Look what's going on now. Black on black violence kills more blacks then cops or racist non blacks combined. Top of that. Do you know what has killed more blacks in america then what the south did or cops or racist none blacks combined??? Abortions. Abortions has killed more blacks then anything else in america history and the left promotes it big time.
Not surprised tho. The democratic party was the party who started the kkk. Democrats owned slaves. And it wasn't the democrats who freed the slaves or even push the civil rights movement in the 60s. That was the Republicans.
But somehow in the past 82 years. The democrats are saying it's the Republicans who are the racist party. And have decieved many into believing this even tho the democrats hasn't done nothing for the black community. Zero. Besides keep the black man down and making promises during voting time that they never keep.
So let's speak the whole truth and not half of it and woke doesn't do that....
@@Timur21 ------ "Be woke" is a term used by Black people while traveling in the South to be aware they are traveling in a potentially hostile environment. The Green Book (used 1936 to 1966) was written and published so Black people would know of friendly accommodations. Today people use it incorrectly. Another cultural appropriation. I'm surprised you didn't know.
@@VotersPamphlet I know the term was recycled, but that happens all the time.. The term fascist was also recycled and doesnt mean what it used to mean. The term racist as well.. words get recycled and redefined..
Wokeness is spreading beyond America. And people outside America are very much alarmed.
Explain woke please.
@@MrBennieagray There is no single agreed definition of woke. However, it is associated with ideas involving identity and race.. It then transfotmed to over-wokeness. being overly righteous on all things related to identy and race. Now, being woke is attached to the extreme type of wokeness and not the original type. Today, when you are called woke, it means your are overly woke since it is seldom used now in a positive sense.
@MrBennieagray it's a cult of nonsense
@unvaccinated6467 ok. To me conservatives means your against the teachings of God. Especially God Donald since we seen literally status of him and people going to it and praying to it.
@@Unvaccinated69 now why is Jesus not considered woke when his teachings are far to the left of any politician?
Wokeness is what conservatives call it when they _proverbially_ stop punching somebody in the face and that person doesn’t just agree that everything is square.
I respect Bill Maher so much.
Woke is becoming enlightened to the truth
Woke is the opposite of liberal.
Is it?
@@priceandpride Think about it. Liberal is all about freedom of speech and behavior. Woke is all about what you aren't allowed to say or do. Or think for that matter.
No one gets to disrespect my boi Abraham Lincoln like that
Maher gives us some fascinating insights into racism.
I know I am living in a parallel universe because I find myself constantly agreeing with Bill “fucking” Maher.
Me too, he used to be the liberal voice and my ex wife and sister-in-law would praise him.
Well .........that ship sailed.
That's because Bill Maher no longer has any fans so like all other bad comedians he is placating to right wing people. The fact that he mentions people like Jordan Peterson proves it.
He’s too busy now yelling at kids to get out of his yard….
being conscious (and actively opposing) of inequalities and inadequacies perpetuated within the political or economic spectrum towards black people (originated by black people in usa) .
Still haven't heard a definition from any of these people...
Like how libs can’t define woman?
Thing is, the term has been overused, and abused. Originally it just meant being aware of social issues, and was primarily used in the black community in reference to their struggles. It just meant you were "awake" to things like systemic racism. "Get woke!" Meant "educate yourself" in relation to those issues.
But then, as with many things, white liberals picked it up and turned it into their wider crusade on social justice. And they kind of ruined it. Then conservatives started using it as a negative, and representative of "social justice" and leftism in general.
So "woke" has come to mean something different depending on who you are and your own political leanings. Really it's almost too controversial, clearly even among some liberals, like Maher. So if someone asked me this question I have to just say, "according to whom?"
Systemic racism doesn't exist. It's just a term black people came up with to blame others for their own failures.
Woke is a bunch of people becoming what they say they’re fighting.
When did anyone pull down statues of Lincoln?!
Where has that happened? Woke is a black term. Woke means aware.
Exactly what a white liberal would think..your racism is showing
^^^ FACT. It is a black culure word for awareness.
@@SmarchitectMann fact : only a racist would make everything about race
Doesn’t matter what words a race has “claimed”. Woke means injustice.
@@Raspberries9372 woke means if you'll be the nigga to put on the white man's dress
Kat Williams
I'm politically conservative and I agree with him.
It's a state of permanent butt-hurt😂
SO YOU AFE AN EXPERT ON BUTT HURT? LOL
It's only when white people use it though
The old folks get mad
I miss when black topics and black culture was amongst blacks.
The fact that Woke is a dirty word now is just convenient for the power structures... and the racists.
I agree, I hate that it turned into that but at the end of the day. Racists are finidng new ways to hide their racism by being in opposition to words like woke and misinterpreting the true meaning of what it means. For our people, however, I’ve heard a lot of us say “conscious” instead
@SmarchitectMann… Black Supremacist Racist!
🎯
Who has torn down or asked to tear down an Abe Lincoln statue?
Liberals
San fran I believe it wasnin
Native Americans
No one has done that
@LadyNemy That would have been the best answer, but they haven't. No one asked to replace it. Maybe it was Ted Roosevelt, but not Lincoln.
Thank you for asking that question. I am so confused by the meaning of this new made-up term. Some people say it means “black,” others say it means”Democratic.” And still others say it means socially conscious and compassionate.
It already had a definite meaning and definition before Bill Maher and Republicans bastardized it like they do everything. Woke is "alert to and concerned about social injustice and discrimination."
Everything else is propaganda spin from racists and the rich who don't wanna solve injustice because it serves them.
It's a shame he didn't answer it. My understanding of the origin of the term is that it's about being willing to see some unpleasant truths, see the world from more than one perspective, and generally stopping the shaming and silencing that has been done for centuries.
People often complain about someone getting into trouble for something they said 20 years ago. Often, though, often people who say stuff like that publicly still hold on to a lot of those beliefs. Also, if the person had come forward 20 years ago when it happened, they could have been ignored, fired, shamed, or even beaten and killed. Just look at how Monica Lewinsky was bashed by the press and the late night hosts, while Clinton practically got a pat on the back.
@@andrewtorrens7790 In his 1938 song about the Scottsboro Boys, nine black boys falsely accused of raping two white women, Lead Belly wrote as a warning to black people, “So I advise everybody, be a little careful - best stay woke, keep their eyes open." Anti woke=anti black.
In his 1938 song about the Scottsboro Boys, nine black boys falsely accused of raping two white women, Lead Belly wrote as a warning to black people, “So I advise everybody, be a little careful - best stay woke, keep their eyes open." Anti woke=anti black.
@Andrew Torrens ... One concern: the woke are the biggest perpetrators of shaming and silencing. Canceling someone is ultimate silencing! And the woke are among the least tolerant of differing perspectives! Shouting down opposing viewpoints is not tolerant nor demonstrating a willingness to consider other perspectives. So if the definition of woke ever WAS as you suggest, it certainly does NOT seem to be the case now.
To me, being woke in part is also undoing the white savior mythology, and recognizing the value of having people of different cultural experiences. Bill is Struggling with the first part, he doesn’t seem to like people being critical of his mythology.
Moon face bill. I guess knowing history is woke then I’m woke
Maher is the definition of woke.
Woke > Trumpism. Objective fact
Confused?
Woke had always meant an intelligent person that understands the world around them,
It was, but like alot of things it's been warped into something else.
And yes, despite the right overusing it, the Left claim to be woke and progressive despite the contrary.
The Bill Maher injustice to RFK jr.will someday be recompensed
Bill has become irrational over this issue. One statue of Abraham Lincoln with a slave kneeling before him was deemed controversial, that's all. He is still an American hero. It's the right who wishes to prevent the progress that began with Lincoln.
I recently saw a photo of a Lincoln statue knock over in Portland, Oregon.
@@toastnjam7384 There was also a bust of Lincoln removed (and since replaced) at Cornell. But I think Lee C is correct in pointing out that removal of Lincoln statues has not occurred on a widespread basis, at least not yet.
@@toastnjam7384 Yeah, there are lots of stupid people around.
My man was asked to his face to define the word and he still didn't
This is the part where ideological zealots pretend their ideology doesn't exist, right?
😅😅😅😅
He said it’s a collection of ideas that are undoing liberalism” He then listed Abe Lincoln being a controversial figure nowadays as an example.
@@zeenuf00 Oh no, leftists do have ideologies. Not one single ideology, same as conservatives, but they do have them. They tend to be less bizarrely in denial about it.
Thing is, "wokeism" is not "leftist ideology". It's minorities being treated well. Or getting to exist at all. "Wokeism" is not an ideology, it's a euphemism for "all the things conservatives find weird, alien, or gross"
@@John_TalksGiants The dominant opinion of a historical figure is not a hinge on which the whole of liberalism rests. The world will not collapse if Abraham Lincoln's legacy is reexamined or even judged lesser than the near-god-king status some ascribe to him :)
@FaliusAren there you go proving my point 😆 🤣 😂 bless your heart
So, so true. Tell ‘em Bill.
When you go from defending people's rights to get a job based on merit irrespective of their race, to giving someone a job based on their race irrespective of merit.
When you go from defending women's rights to defending a religious group's right to deny women their rights.
When you go from defending freedom of speech to dictating what speech should be free.
To me, that is when you go from being a liberal to being "woke", irrespective of what it was originally supposed to mean. The woke mob is just as bad as the far-right.
@KK-fi6ms: Who and what is Far Right? Far Right is a good thing, pro constitutional and for limited gov.
No... it's far more dangerous to liberty... and it rose up from the left... 😮 Dump your party loyalty. Neither party is faithful to their platform and both practice fascist economic policies... Partnership between corporations and government. They both serve their own businesses... not regularly citizens. 😮
@@letsgobrandon7297 Do you really not know? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics
@KK-fi6ms: Not clicking on that BS. I’l take far right over far left any day of the week. Not to mention people get labeled as far right when they are plain conservatives.
Wokeness is the ability to be more offended than the next person and then ensure that you communicate how insufferably intolerant THEY are because of their acceptance of diversity.
Since the term became political, ie. when the Left began using it to describe the progressive acceptance of people's differences, choices, rights, and equal worth, the meaning of "woke" expanded from its narrower, original meaning. However, I'd suggest that in both its original & expanded uses, "woke" didn't refer to a stance on trans rights or gender identity. The rightwingers put that idea onto it.
They twisted it into a pejorative catch-all term for liberal values, rather than a term that previously could've been described as neutral, if not admirable (insomuch as it broadly referred to a state of awareness, enlightenment, recognition, or not being deceived).
My understanding was that it originally described an awareness of society's embedded hierarchy of classes/races & an acknowledgement of the unconscious bias/inequality most white people are in denial of.
Since conservatives reflexively activate a self-righteous & defensive shield (perceiving a threat to their yet unacknowledged privilege) whenever those they look down upon offer constructive criticism, or suggest there's anything wrong with society as _they've_ crafted it, they immediately villainized the word & everyone associated with it when liberals popularized its use.
A democrat or independent voter should never be tasked with defining woke. This was another catch phrase/word brought into existence by Republicans. It’s the middle of April, 2023 and I have yet to hear a republican define it to the point that it makes sense in every application they use it.
"woke" means you are fully programmable by the govt, your beliefs always align with the State and corporations. You are so anti-racist that you hate people with white skin for simply having white skin. You are so compassionate about the health of others that you force others to breathe exhaled carbon dioxide, and get injected with experiments with no long term studies. You are so loving and caring of others' feelings that objective reality can be twisted and warped to placate people's feelings because that is the most important thing. Woke means you are a govt shill without being paid.
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The term woke was actually used by the black community before Republicans hijacked it.
The word" woke" wasnt used. Or another word was used instead.
"Woke" now ,seems to be associated with disagreeing with the "old " or " usual" way of doing things. Or if u disagree with a"woke" person , then ur a racist or just wrong because the "woke" person is always right...they dont
Seem to b open for discussion.
They come off as not being able to agree to disagree😢
@@iamPROTOTYPE BS.
We black Americans are laughing our asses off to see it being misused..too funny😅
So many black Americans don’t give a bloody shit about your woke shit.
As the tower of wokeness is dismantled, we will find Bill at the bottom, as part of the foundation. People like him were instrumental in this mess. He was an influencer before the internet.
You know leftists have gone off the reservation when Bill maur looks conservative
He’s always been a conservative. Just because he wants to get high doesn’t make him left leaning. Guys a libertarian
At no point did he actually define woke and he made up some bullshit about Lincoln.
Yeah he did, wokeness is wanting to tear down statues of Abraham Lincoln. Not surprising it went over your head.
@@reredrumuoy that is an example of wokeness, we are after a definition which continues to elude intellectuals
@@Fluffy6555 Wokeness is the pursuit of progressive ideology, to the point it becomes socially regressive. Ex. wanting to end racism, by tearing down statues of Lincoln. Or wanting to end racism by segregating college students on the basis of race. There since you apparently can't figure definition from example. I gave you both.
Define woman-
@@queenofhearts7503 it would be hard for me to do that without broad generalizations. Basically there's a bunch of sociological factors, when looked at holistically, give us the conclusion that the person we are observing is a woman.
You do not need to meet all of these factors or even most of them, but here's a list: clothes such as dresses skirts tank tops or blouses, makeup, long and/or stylized hair, jewellery, being interested in fashion and/or beauty, taking on submissive social roles including in dating, drinking wine instead of beer, taking on carer occupations including nursing and teaching, enjoying romance genres in media, etc.
You may find this definition unhelpful or indefinitive, but that's just sociology. The factors I've mentioned even only cover western civilization's definition of a woman. However, you would agree with me that these factors are generally associated with women, despite there being no biological motivation. Because gender is socially constructed.
Woke is when self-righteousness meets the absence of intellectual thought.
If wokeism is identity politics then all of us are doing so including conservatives. Just by this logic alone.
🤫 Quiet!!
Bill Maher is a narcissist
Bill Maher is a narcissist
I guarantee you 99.9% of liberals do not think Abraham Lincoln is controversial.
since when was lincoln controversial?
Folks started doing their research and got woke
I don’t ever want to not be black. I see race and it does matter
If your color blind its because you have you're head deeply buried in the sand
I’ve got good news for you - you won’t ever change color!
@@rehypotehcation3682 you damn skippy
The whole point is you shouldn't see race cause it shouldn't matter we're all human.
@@leviathsvale6787 says the people who are the worst racists the world has ever seen. If you guys could be in charge of what race means, we wouldn’t be in this mess. Why do you take your own opinion seriously?
It’s the blacks who should be running this. Y’all should be shutting precisely the fuck up
I've noticed people who are always screaming racism are the most racist.
No
I wholeheartedly agree.
What kind of dressing does he serve with that word salad?
You can’t be serious. What didn’t you understand?
Thanks for putting the real back into real time reporting
He didn’t define anything. He gave us opinion on different situations which means he himself cannot define woke.
Since the term became political, ie. when the Left began using it to describe the progressive acceptance of people's differences, choices, rights, and equal worth, the meaning of "woke" expanded from its narrower, original meaning. However, I'd suggest that in both its original & expanded uses, "woke" didn't refer to a stance on trans rights or gender identity. The rightwingers put that idea onto it.
They twisted it into a pejorative catch-all term for liberal values, rather than a term that previously could've been described as neutral, if not admirable (insomuch as it broadly referred to a state of awareness, enlightenment, recognition, or not being deceived).
My understanding was that it originally described an awareness of society's embedded hierarchy of classes/races & an acknowledgement of the unconscious bias/inequality most white people are in denial of.
Since conservatives reflexively activate a self-righteous & defensive shield (perceiving a threat to their yet unacknowledged privilege) whenever those they look down upon offer constructive criticism, or suggest there's anything wrong with society as _they've_ crafted it, they immediately villainized the word & everyone associated with it when liberals popularized its use.
An Anti Woke storybook “And then Lincoln, who was perfect, freed the slaves. The civil war ended, we all had big laugh, and now racism is over. The end.”
you are literally just making shit up now
Lincoln wasn’t a bad guy, so I don’t know why everyone is hating on him?
This was amazing to hear. Something I hate the most is pepole tying wokeness to democracy.