To be woke is to care about the sufferings of others, and to act upon them. To be a woke person is to believe that your lived experience is more important than the facts on the ground, and that your feelings about your experiences outweigh the facts in your mind.
00:00:00.000Black history and other things, banning books, has been weaponized for political purposes to drive people to the polls based on outrage.
00:00:12.340Well, we've lost Joy Reid for now and all the content she brings, but fortunately we still have The View.
00:00:17.420So we still have them, and here they are yesterday claiming that it is unchristian to criticize wokeness. Listen.
00:00:24.300I thought about the conversations you and I have had, Whoopi, so many times about the co-opting of the word woke and the fact that the right somehow has made it a dirty word.
00:00:37.300To be woke is a word that came out of the African-American community, and it was about acknowledging social justice inequities, acknowledging people's suffering.
00:00:50.920It is not a bad thing to care about other people, to care about the sufferings of others, and to act upon it.
00:00:59.680And so Whoopi will often tell me, well, I've never been asleep. And that's how I feel.
00:01:04.000My parents, you know, they grew up in the civil rights movement. I grew up in the late 60s, 70s.
00:01:10.220I was always a part of it, and so I've never been asleep.
00:01:14.120And so it angers me when people are like, this woke stuff has got to go.
00:01:19.220That's telling me that you don't care about my lived experience, you don't care about the oppression of the LGBTQ community, you don't care about the oppression of the disabled, you don't care about the oppression of immigrants, you don't care about your fellow neighbor.
00:01:33.880And that is ungodly. That is not Christian.
00:01:36.820Well, that's true. I don't care about the oppression of LGBT people or disabled people or minorities in this country because it's not happening.
00:01:44.600So it's hard to care about something that isn't actually occurring.
00:01:48.240You know, it's hard for me to care about a thing that is fictional unless it's, you know, in a movie or something.
00:01:55.140You know, the word oppression has a meaning, and the meaning of oppression is that this is cruel or unjust treatment being inflicted on a person or a group by somebody in power.
00:02:07.320It's an unjust, cruel use of power against a person or group.
00:02:15.400So in what way are LGBT people or black people or even disabled people, since they got wrapped into this somehow, in what way are they being unjustly and cruelly treated and abused by people in power?
00:02:29.320And I know when you say that, people on the left are like, what do you mean?
00:02:45.700One of the problems, anyway, as a woke person, you expect us to have sympathy for the entirely invented plight of people who are not only not being persecuted, but are often the recipients of unfairly advantageous treatment.
00:02:58.240And that's because in your woke mind, oppression and persecution are not words with any objective meaning.
00:03:06.060These are not things that actually happen.
00:03:09.520Or at least it doesn't matter if they happen or not.
00:03:11.760What matters is that you feel like they're happening.
00:03:13.600So to be woke is to believe that your lived experience, a phrase that only a woke person would ever be vapid enough to actually say out loud, your lived experience, quote unquote, which is to say your own personal perception, your feelings about your experiences, more than the experiences themselves, outweigh the facts on the ground.
00:03:33.360And that, by the way, so many people, I mean, I've always complained about this phrase lived experience because it's, it appears to be, you know, redundant.
00:03:44.620I mean, of course it's, if you had an experience, of course you lived it.
00:03:48.640You can't have an unlived experience, can you?
00:03:52.760And it is redundant when taken literally, but you can't take anything that woke people say literally because, again, nothing has any objective literal meaning in their minds.
00:04:00.600So what they actually mean when they say lived experience, what they mean is felt experience.
00:04:05.500To live and to feel to them are the same thing.
00:04:08.880These are words that are interchangeable.
00:04:11.380And so what they're saying is felt experience.
00:04:14.620And they do, there is a distinction between your felt experience and an actual experience.
00:04:20.780Like there's what's actually happening and then there's how you feel about what's happening.
00:04:26.500And so when they say, well, my lived experience is that I've been oppressed.
00:04:30.620What they mean is I feel like it, my experience is that I feel like I'm being oppressed.
00:04:37.600And then when a rational person responds and says, well, yeah, but you weren't actually oppressed.
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