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The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
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. To be woke is a word that came out of the African-American community. And it was about being, acknowledging social justice inequities, acknowledging people's suffering.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
It is not a bad thing to care about other people, to care about the sufferings of others, and to act upon it. And so Whoopi will often tell me, well, I've never been asleep. And that's how I feel. My parents, you know, they grew up in the civil rights movement. I grew up in the late 60s, 70s. I was always a part of it. And so I've never been asleep. And so it angers me when people are like,
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
this woke stuff has got to go. That'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. And that is ungodly. That is not Christian.