Robert Reich thinks we can't define the terms woke, critical race theory, cancel culture and socialism.

Let's prove him wrong.

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One of the cardinal rules of fighting back against the woke left is that you always need to know the definition of the words you’re using. Because if you don’t, a leftist will inevitably ask you for the definition at the most inopportune time to make you look like you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Luckily, former Secretary of Labor and current progressive Twitterati Robert Reich has given us a chance to practice.

The other day, Robert tweeted that people like us couldn’t define the following words:

• Woke

• Critical Race Theory

• Cancel Culture

• Socialism

Before I give you my definitions, I want you to write down your definitions.

No, seriously. Do it.

If you were at a school board meeting and a leftist came up to you in person and asked you to define those words as a part of a “gotcha” game, what would you say?

When you’re ready, scroll down, and I’ll tell you mine.

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Ok, ready?

Here’s what I said.

• Woke: Authoritarian

• Critical Race Theory: An ideology that started in academia that says racism exists everywhere - in every person, institution, and interaction - and the job of the critical theorist is to explore how (not if) racism occurred because racism is always assumed.

• Cancel culture: Mobbing and bullying in an attempt to gain power over people who are saying and doing things the mob doesn’t like. The goal is to silence and unperson the person being canceled.

  • A friend of mine, Jeff Charles, later pointed out that another goal of cancel culture is to silence onlookers, too. Of course, he’s right.

• Socialism: A cult that seeks to fundamentally destabilize our entire way of life that will only lead to suffering, starvation, and death.

How did your definitions hold up?

You don’t have to use my definitions.

But I do hope that you’ll make sure you have a definition memorized that you can recite at the drop of a hat, because it’s an instant disrupter to their narrative that we don’t know what we’re talking about.

We’ve studied these people.

We “do the work.”

We know what we’re talking about.

Make sure they know it.

Questions?

Let me know in the comments!

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