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Irreverent 'Mr. Birchum' Hammers Woke Culture
Adam Carolla knew we needed “Mr. Birchum” both sooner and later. The cranky wood shop teacher, created by Carolla to break into LA radio in the 1990s, captured his real-world carpentry chops and no-nonsense style. Today, the character’s bluster is the perfect antidote to our woke, “this is MY truth” society. “Mr. Birchum,” the new Daily Wire+ animated series, leans into that cultural shift. Hard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jcSBYQVEHY The show finds Carolla’s character running afoul of a...
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Tom Brady Roast Proves Woke Is on the Run
Remember comedy? We used to embrace it without reservation, treating comedians like comedians, not politicians who hold sway over our lives. Tell a bad joke? Move along. Nothing to see here save the flop sweat on the stand-up’s brow. The woke mind virus changed all that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFWxEfzeYzs&t=184s Now, comedians have to watch what they say for fear of “offending” a group or single person. It’s had a chilling effect on creativity across the board, but comedians have felt...
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Goldberg: What happened to the Republican war on 'woke' — and what we should have learned from it
This isn’t going to be more musing about whether America has reached “peak woke.” But that is part of the story. So let’s start there. About a decade ago, many on the left embraced the word “woke,” a term with roots in African American culture and activism. It originally meant staying awake — that is, “woke” — to the dangers facing the Black community. But in the hands of the broader, and whiter, academic and journalistic left, it soon became a kind of cool catchall for progressive politics,...