Is “Woke” The Ultimate Suitcase Word? Does ANYONE Know What It Means?

I’m honestly not sure.

Ted Bauer
4 min readMar 17, 2023

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People sometimes describe articles or videos as “going viral” and what they mean is that the piece of content went viral in very specific and niche audiences. That happened this week, when some “conservative author” who appears on Megyn Kelly’s show a lot was on The Hill’s show and couldn’t define “woke:”

That video above is a longer rip from the person who asked the question (“How would you define woke?”) and there’s a lot of good points in that video. It’s 20 minutes long, but worth watching. It contains the original clip.

The author who couldn’t define woke, Mandel, is also trying to sell a book right now about “Stolen Youth” and she’s tweeting out this stuff:

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Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.