Chaya Raichik left sputtering when asked what “wokeness” is as the audience bursts out laughing

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/04/chaya-raichik-left-sputtering-when-asked-what-wokeness-is-as-the-audience-bursts-out-laughing/

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  1. So Republicans think she’s someone that college age students look up to?  

    The woman who may have triggered bomb threats and lockdowns at their schools a year or a few years ago?

  3. >Raichik gave a speech yesterday at the Indiana Memorial Union at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, alongside Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN).

    >“It’s been in schools, it’s on college campuses, it- it’s in the workforce, it is in the streets, it’s when you go to the store,” she complained. “I mean, like, you can’t do anything in peace without this wokeness being shoved down your throat wherever you go!”

    >“How do you define wokeness?” someone in the back asked.

    >Raichik tried to respond: “Wokeness is the destruction of normalicy [sic] and… And… Um… Uh…” More students started laughing.

    >“… of our lives,” she said, apparently thinking she was finishing a sentence.

    >People still held signs while inside the IMU, including one that read, “Chaya is a stupid name. It means spinach tree. I’m calling you spinach tree from now on.”

    >Despite conservatives beating the “wokeness” drum for several years now, Raichik is far from the first to have trouble explaining what that word means. Conservative writer Bethany Mandel was mocked online last year when she wasn’t able to explain what the word means in an interview about her book that is about how “woke indoctrination” is targeting children.

    Chaya Raichik is a stochastic terrorist, and she is a clear and present danger to Americans. Chaya Raichik is anti-American. She doesn’t believe in liberty and justice for all, including the trans people she despises.

    The fact Republicans see her as some role model is more than despicable.

    For conservatives, woke is just a clever way of avoiding saying the N-word or the F-word . They want to go back to a time where they can call black people the N-word and LGBTQIA+ people the F-word without being lambasted for it. So, they use “woke” as their coded language.

    It’s the same as when they say DEI hire or ebonics in the 90s or welfare queen in the 80s. They know they can’t say the N-word without backlash for it, so they just use “woke” as a buzzword to underscore their hatred for black people and LGBTQIA+ people.

    The Republican Party is worse than the Westboro Baptist Church, endorsing genocidal maniacs like Chaya Raichik.

  4. Why do these absolute knobs think that they’re qualified to go to universities and talk about anything at all?

  7. Everyone just go back to sleep… We don’t want nobody ‘woke’ around here.. What’s the definition of ‘anti-woke’? Asleep?

  8. “Wokeness” has always been a buzzword to unite fascists against out-groups for them to hate, whether that be black folks, brown folks, Muslims, LGBTQ+ folks, and leftists.

    Fuck Chaya Raichik.

  9. ”  you can’t do anything in peace without this wokeness being shoved down your throat wherever you go!”

    She saw a minority walk down the street. Oh the horrors. Other people existing = woke.

    Useful idiot as women will all be denied more rights of her Christian Nationalist pals have their way. Women seen outside will be woke.

  10. watch the video, it’s great. she sputters about “destruction of normality” and they laugh at her

  11. This whole anti-woke nonsense has been going on for years and they still haven’t bothered to define it. How much more evidence to people need to realize this is just fake anger.

  12. It used to mean Aware of injustice and oppression, now it’s just cover for anything racist, bigoted and anything generally distasteful

  13. I grew up with an extremely toxic stepfather. He was a US Marine (anybody who knows the term ‘career Gunny’ probably understands my childhood fairly well) who had a much greater affinity for Miller Lite than he did for any human who wasn’t a straight white male in the US military.

    He had one all-encompassing term for all the things currently described as “woke” and it was a rare dinner that didn’t feature at least two appearances of it. His contribution to the lexicon was “hippie fucking bullshit” and it was like the talisman he rubbed under the table whenever someone tried to make him think about anyone besides himself.

    So every time I hear some ig’nant fool rant about “woke” I just lament that Asshole didn’t have such a convenient epithet, and wasted so much time spitting out all those extra syllables all his miserable fucking life.

  15. >“I’m sick and tired of being taught that America isn’t worth fighting and dying for, it’s a great country, it’s the greatest country in the history of the world,” Banks said.

    Ummm your cult leader says America is horrible every single day. So why not say it to him?

  16. If you’re going to attack something like “woke” or “wokeness” you had better understand the term and have a definition, explanation, and stance ready to offer and defend when someone challenges you on it. And you’d better be able to do that in a way that doesn’t make you look like a colossal asshole.

  17. Wouldn’t you think that they would prepare an answer for this completely obvious question in advance? It’s not like this is the first time someone has been asked to define “wokeness” and completely faceplanted.

  18. I would think by this point the conservatives would have made up a definition and shared it with eachother

  19. “Woke” means whatever the GQP needs it to mean in the moment. It’s an ever shifting target. This is why they can never define it properly.

  20. “Is something funny?” Yeah, its you chuckle fuck, you and your stanky fake libertarian/totally not a right-winger guys bullshit.

  22. Chaya so slow she hasn’t read the memo that “woke” is so yesterday.

    It’s DEI you’re supposed to be misrepresenting while foaming at the mouth, Chaya. C’mon. Try to keep up.

  23. It’s really quite simple. Woke is being empathetic to other people. And it’s beautiful. So fuck you.

  25. Being “woke” literally means being aware that the system doesn’t work in favor of black people.

    This term has been around since at least the 1920s when it was used by Marcus Garvey in the context of “waking up” black people to political consciousness, and used in popular media since [at least the 1930s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_Belly#%22Stay_woke%22), e.g. by folk/blues singer-songwriter Lead Belly:

    > In possibly the earliest audio recording of the phrase, Lead Belly urged Black listeners to “stay woke” in the spoken afterword to a 1938 recording of his song “Scottsboro Boys”, which tells the story of nine Black teenagers and young men falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931. Lead Belly warns his listeners, “So I advise everybody, be a little careful when they go along through there—best stay woke, keep their eyes open.”

    That’s it. It’s that simple. And the thing is, right-wingers can’t use that definition because doing so would reveal that they are simply *anti-black*. So they fumble this very simple question, every. Single. Time.

  27. Isn’t it a moot point since it was destroyed by Sydney Sweeney’s rack?

  28. It’s funny because you can’t just blurt out that being against wokeness = hatred of minorities. That’s why everyone has a different way of failing to explain what it is.

  29. Her and Elon Musk are the leading voices for the right wing at the moment. A South-African born grifter who hates other immigrants, and a lady with a funny sounding name who honestly doesn’t seem to have any actual intelligence.

  31. The most unamerican thing in the world is attacking the US capitol building… Chaya just said trump and maga are woke

  32. Why are idiots who barely finished high school (Chaya) and high school dropouts like Rittenhouse being provided with platforms/forums to speak at our nation’s institutions of higher education? They are the antithesis of what our universities are supposed to stand for. I understand the motivation to allow opposing and even radical views to be presented, defended, ridiculed, and picked apart, but the words of these dunce cap wearing idiots aren’t worth the breath it took to utter them.

  33. Her name sounds really woke and inclusive. She should be deported to end the wokeness and replace her with a white christian man with an American name like Greg or Steve.

  34. They hate defining woke because the common definition is something we should be.

  36. “I’m sick and tired of being taught that America isn’t worth fighting and dying for.” Well, there’s the political motivation for this nonsense.

  37. She made a tweet complaining about all the old people wearing nirvana brand clothing thinking they are hip. Yep, she thought nirvana was a clothing brand made cool by the kids.

  38. Woke is a thought terminating cliche. It is intended to be meaningless.

  39. If you ask someone what “woke” means enough times they eventually just use the n word or the f word.

  40. Since when does being the direct cause of bomb threats against children’s hospitals qualify you to speak at a university? 🤔

  41. These people need to be publicly shamed and mocked wherever they go. Completely unserious people. Can’t even define their grievances.

  42. *whispers* Is “wokeness” in the room with us right now?

  43. I love the retort “Is something funny?”, as though that’s going to make everyone reverse course and be like “oh please continue with your speech”.

    They’re laughing derisively in your face because you’re a fucking idiot. I hope that explains it well.

  44. Woke us just being aware of injustices in our society and politics. So it’s quite easy to define. But they have trouble defining it because they know of they give the true meaning it makes them look foolish. To be against that, that is. So they make it something it’s not. Which their lunatic, bigoted base loves

  45. They can’t define it honestly because it just simply means having an understanding and tolerance and compassion for people not like you. It’s really easy if you’re not a bad faith asshole.

  46. They all know very well what it is, or at least what they mean by it– respect for civil rights and human rights for everyone, empathy, kindness and generosity to those who don’t look exactly like you do, basic respect– but if they put that into words, then saying that they’re against it exposes them.

    It’s not that they can’t define it, it’s that if they define it they will have shown their hand.

    It’s all just coded bigotry and racism.

    And for that reason, the only thing that anyone should ever say when someone complains about wokeness is, “what do you mean by that term?”

    Make them stutter and stammer as they try to figure out how to talk their way out of the hole they’ve dug.

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