Nikki Haley Asked to Define ‘Woke’ During CNN Town Hall
If you want to use a certain phrase or nickname to attack or criticize an idea, you should probably have an idea of what that word means. And during a town hall event with CNN on Sunday, Republican presidential hopeful…
If you want to use a certain phrase or nickname to attack or criticize an idea, you should probably have an idea of what that word means.
And during a town hall event with CNN on Sunday, Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley joined the ranks of conservatives who struggled when she was asked to define “woke.”
“There’s a lot of things,” she responded.
The former South Carolina governor went on, “You want to start with biological boys playing in girl sports. That’s one thing. The fact we have gender pronoun classes in the military now. All these things that are pushing what a small minority wants on the majority of Americans. It’s too much.”
“How are you going to build the morale and a strong military when you’re doing gender pronoun classes? Why is it that you have, you know, kids undergoing critical race theory?” she asked.
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If you notice, Haley responded with a circular answer by sharing issues conservatives might consider “woke,” but not actually defining what it means for those issues to be “woke.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) also was asked to define the term. He responded, “Look, we know what ‘woke’ is, it’s a form of cultural Marxism.”
“It’s about putting merit and achievement behind identity politics, and it’s basically a war on the truth,” he added.
The second part of his answer actually had a definition that is easy to understand.
The word “woke,” for conservatives, has been used to refer to an issue or idea that is crazy or part of a push to transform social norms or an