After going viral for struggling to define Republican buzzword, ‘woke’, conservative author Bethany Mandel claimed she was distracted by “nasty” comments Rising co-host Briahna Joy Gray made about parents before they went on air.
“Just before we went on air, Briahna Joy Gray was on a hot mic. I heard her demeaning parenting in general in colorful and nasty terms, stating parents only have kids in order to perpetuate their own narcissism,” Mandel claims.
Mandel said Gray’s co-host, libertarian Robby Soave, “responded, ‘there are some good ones and some bad ones.'”
“As a mom of six, including a newborn, this threw me off just a bit. Not an excuse, just a reality. I’m human!,” Mandel explained.
Mandel’s interview on The Hill’s online show went viral on Tuesday when she was asked to define ‘woke,’ which is being used by the right as a broad term to criticize polices that promote diversity and equity.
“I mean, woke is sort of the idea that, um,” Mandel stammered before adding, “this is going to be one of those moments that goes viral.”
“I mean, woke is something that’s very hard to define, and we’ve spent an entire chapter defining it. It is sort of the understanding that we need to totally reimagine and reduce society in order to create hierarchies of oppression,” she continued. “Um, sorry, I—it’s hard to explain in a 15-second sound bite.”
On Wednesday, Mandel define ‘wokeness’ as “a radical belief system suggesting that our institutions are built around discrimination, and claiming that all disparity is a result of that discrimination. It seeks a radical redefinition of society in which equality of group result is the endpoint, enforced by an angry mob.”