People will say "That's not a bigoted dog whistle, words mean what they mean" and then you ask what the words they used mean and they go "Come on, you know what I mean".
My best approximation on how to answer "you know what I'm talking about" is... "I know what kind of things you refer to, but I have generally positive opinions on those things, so I'd like a clearer definition so we can talk frankly about pros and cons"
The person could've simply stated it as it is, perverted Liberalism and censorship of traditional values or beliefs. 😂 You actually should stop being as brainwashed as a CNN viewer
Why do people ring up and simply do not prep for what they say. I hope he plays this back and feels embarrassed by his bigotry.. what a complete coward …
It's always so interesting how shy and embarassed they are to say what they actually believe. It's as if they know it's wrong and feel embarassed they believe it
@@katieheys3007 They try to blame being "cancelled" for not standing on their beliefs too. They'll claim it's so important and that this thing they consider a problem is a problem that's destroying societies, but also be too scared to speak up when asked about these ideas outside of their bubbles.
@@JAWS-qj1rj There isn't an "issue", just cynics who try to rally the hard of thinking against a small minority who want to be left alone and not get murdered. We'd probably consider your views to be transphobic, except you lack the guts to actually say them, instead hiding behind hypotheticals and whataboutisms.
JoB: What do you mean by Woke? Caller: Well, you know... JoB: But what does it mean? Caller: You know, lefty stuff... JoB: But what about an example? Caller: ... Ah, and there we are. Same every time as they tip-toe and evade right up to the point the mask slips. Every. Single. Time.
What's the horror beneath the mask? Not believing mystical gendered souls are a reason to remove female spaces? Trans activists are not just asking for rights from non discrimination. They're gaining the rights of women. This is misogyny. No one tolerates the idea of black liberation being for whites.
It drives me nuts. It's a word with no actual definition. It's this where the English language is going? Words meaning different things depending on who you ask?
"Mr. Owl - How many questions does it take to get to the transphobic center of a conservative caller?" "One, two, three~ [the sound of a phone hanging up]"
@@The_gaming_archaeologist The anti-woke stance is definitely ideological. Woke wouldn't even be a thing if it wasn't for reactionaries and their vacuous moral panic.
A beautiful nutshell around the world of lunatics claiming that elections are stolen, everything's woke and contrails are chemicals seeding hurricanes. You've cracked the code, AnnaCentauri, and as usual I type more words to agree with someone who hits the mark in the pithiest way possible.
Spot on. They think they know what they are talking about but they might as well be telling us that the Earth is flat and still because that is how we experience it.
I love how these anti woke people never seem to see where they are being shafted, and seem fine with getting materially poorer and poorer, as long as they can be annoyed at some made up problem Murdock and Co. told them they need to worry about. It’s tragic, really.
@@markwelch3564I agree. It’s often from fairly well off, often elderly people. Also, people tend to down play luck and circumstance in their success. So some guy who bought his house in 1975, thinks that young people today should not have any problem, as he worked hard. No doubt he did, but materially it’s completely different. No amount of saving on avocados and iPhones will make up for the wage to house price gap. It’s just awful to see how cynical these people can be and the distain they hold for people less well off than them.
@@dooda77penn19 I've never heard of Douglas Murray. But Matt Goodwin? The same Matt Goodwin who's still beating the Brexit drum about people voting for it to lower immigration when it's a fact that leaving the EU has increased it ten fold but he never talks about that? O'Brien would destroy him with basic facts just like he did Farage during the referendum on his show.
I don't think they do - it's just that if your opinion differs to O'Bigot's you have to be prepared to be interrupted and chastised as a fool. He likes to be right, but he never talks about Carl Beech any more. That said, he does still like to imply that Brexit was a Mainstream Media plot, and that the Tory press facilitated it because LEAVE voters were just too dumb to spot lies and falsehoods in a legitimate national and democratic vote where we all had a free choice! Beech was a liar and a bit mentally unwell - there was no high-level cover-up in the media, Westminster, the police and the DPP over a child molestation ring at the heart of the British establishment.
@@reefhog That's the fascinating thing to me, that they use it as an insult where it actually just means you've made a conscious effort to understand the world and all it's people and issues around you instead of clamming up and living in a fantasy world that never changes. That and using PC as an insult, like yeah, I try and be polite and courteous to everyone I meet and keep company with? Crazy world we're living in right now, in so many ways.
Thatcher was a monster who did so many terrible things for the Uk that has directly caused most of the current problems in the Uk, at least the ones not only caused by brexit.
@@zacharyriley4122 he definitely was. We had Howard who was almost as bad as both of them. At least he did gun control, though if he didn’t the country would have done everything possible to get rid of him quickly.
But he knows it’s bad because they say so on the internet. Yet if you asked him about the Iraq war he’d probably repeat everything the Guardian was saying prior to the war and if you asked him about tax avoidance he’d probably repeat information from the Panama papers the Guardian released.
In fact this could be said of many words bandied about. Even perhaps the issue is that this is the quality that far too many of our words have nowadays, and more and more and more of them.
Their hypocrisy and contradictions go completely unnoticed because they have absolutely no insight into themselves. They hold these beliefs without ANY critical thought about what these beliefs actually mean in their life.
Woke is actually a term black Americans created for being aware of there surroundings and somehow was flipped by the right wing conservatives who hate black America.
@@chatham43 What a bizarre question. Exactly the same as my comment here has to do with you. It’s committed to a public forum where anyone can discuss the points raised. Are you new to public expression of opinion?
From what I've been able to gather, "being woke" is anti DEI. In other words, "being woke" acknowledges that all diverse people should be included in a society where they have equal legal and moral rights to thrive in that society.
@msud It's self righteous virtue signallers who believe they care more about equality and social justice than the average guy in the street because they constantly signpost it on social media.😊
Just the opposite: DEI is a product of Woke ideology, specifically Critical Race Theory and its doctrines! And "Equality of Opportunity" is already enshrined in Law, at least for race. Class is another matter though!
Calling things "woke" just means you can't actually point to something you think is wrong, rather you just don't like the vague idea of change and anything you don't understand
I think many people know exactly what they're talking about when they say "woke". They have bigoted views but are also cowards, too afraid to express what they truly think in public, so they use that blanket term.
'Woke', more ofren than not, means either care or consideration for other people or a minimum of an awareness of something. So, being anti-woke tells us plenty about you....
No. Woke is identity politics. It’s a pyramid of victim status ,based on perceived persecution and used as weaponised morality for individual advancement and empire building. For example , Stonewall or BLM. Woke, as in awake to the reality of historic persecution. The claims of persecution don’t have to be real , recent , frequent or severe. Its ironic that in claiming their victim status that the self identified victims are willing to victimise people who disagree with their position and aggressively attack and attempt to compel others to submit to their views. For example the trans lobby and the aggressive attacks on ‘terfs’ .
Woke: Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) originally meaning alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination. Beginning in the 2010s, it came to be used as slang for a broader awareness of social inequalities such as racial injustice, sexism, and denial of LGBTQIA rights.
Tht was the original meaning. But once the right-wingers hijacked it, it lost all meaning. A little earlier, the same happened to "social justice warrior", which was a term in hard-left circles with a rather narrow meaning. Once "SJW" was over-used, the right-wingers switched to "woke".
Well done for calling out people who have no idea of the meaning of the words they are using. Especially sexist bigots. I’m from Chippenham. My heart felt apologies.
I never thought it was. But why is it when some people are presented with a phenomenon that is outside of their personal experience that they don't make up their minds to research it any way but instead automatically decide that it must be nonsense? And think of themselves as rational people!
One of my favourite phrases comes from working in pubs. Dry led and wet led pubs just means they sell more, led by, food or alcohol. So 'talking wet', for me is that conversation after 6 pints where gibberish and nonsense is usually met with 'you're talking wet, mate'.
@@Propyl22there's a reason why a lot of anti woke obsessives are middle aged or older: nostalgia. Everyone seems to hark back to their teenage and early 20s. Life was simpler, the grass was greener. Its often nostalgia for the 50s and 60s, for people born in the 1940s. People born in the 1960s hark back to the 80s. Was arguing with someone about crime rates - sky high due to immigration, apparently. They were adamant crime was lower when they were a teenager in the 90s. No amount of stats would convince them otherwise. It's all just rose tinted stuff.
Corbyn also had the effect of uniting so many centralist voters against him that it resulted in Johnsons enormous majority and Labour's greatest defeat in over 70 years. Yes some people liked Corbyn but many more disliked and distrusted him so much, they were prepaired to support Johnson.
@@asherz3621 Feelings dictate that someone born with XY chromosomes can identify as a man, rather than as a woman who follows male gender norms. Facts and biology say otherwise.
@@asherz3621 Feelings lead to trans people born with XY chromosomes being officially labelled as men, rather than as women who may choose to follow male gender norms. Facts and biology say otherwise.
@@stephenmurray2851No, and neither have my daughters. They do old boring stuff like English, maths and Science. They do more on technology than I did and they get less homework. There’s no trans ideology classes. Must be an after school club?
@keifer7813 I mean you could google it and find the answer yourself. One could assume that you are only looking for a fight asking dumb questions like that, when you have the whole internet to research things.
@@mcmillan9 I have researched it and it doesn't make sense. The fact some of you get so triggered by questioning it is very telling of your dogmatic attitudes. So you can either answer the question or go away and let someone who can
@@keifer7813 Hehe 'triggered', you are funny. I only suggested you do some research. Tbf it's not for me to explain it to you. Peer reviewed research could do better than I could to do that. Or maybe, if you are genuine in learning, you could ask some trans people, who are up for educating you on the subject.
Which is unacceptable to bigots, who need a word to disguise what they really mean, which is precisely why they can't define it because that would be to let the mask slip.
@@Bickle121 Well not really. It means that to you, but not to those for whom it essentially means progressive and anti-discriminatory. This fixation on a single word (coined by the civil rights movement and since hijacked by the right-wing to mean what you suggest it means) is toxic due to its lack of a stable meaning. Maybe it is time to go back to more tangible words? Then at least the debate can be had using words whose meaning both sides agree on, otherwise it is all essentially meaningless.
@@mattc971It was coined by a civil rights movement, just not the one you are thinking of. Abraham Lincoln's supporters referred to themselves as the Wide Awake, 160 years ago.
@chatham43 @asherz3621 if you destroy the meaning of gender, race and with identity politics can be anything you say your are, then you undermine social norms for a political ideology to take over. That's woke, Marxism rebranded.
Great job as always James. It's always hilarious when you ask these "opinionated" individuals specific questions, they immediately start to flounder. Proof, they only have talking points but mostly zero substance behind it
Yes and everyone to you must seem “far right” when looking at the world through your woke tinted spectacles. That’s an awful lot of far right fascists in your world then! 🙄
@@Ibluntlysaywhatithink Only the people trying to stoke hatred towards groups of minorities or somehow blame those groups for the country's problems are what I'd call "far right" You're not one of those are you?
My favourite question is always "what aren't you allowed to say that you would like to say?". The only two answers are either them saying something that they're completely able to say (and people say in the media all the time; they are just upset people call them out for saying it), or just totally clamming up and being unable to bring themselves to admit what they're really wanting say.
I wanted to know what was happening in schools. I'm a teacher and, after just spending period 5 trying to get Year 11 to at least feign some interest in A Christmas Carol, I would love to know what he thinks we're all up to.
I'm sure could find a few other things they've in common when against left leaning parties. I wish more of them would just be honest about what their actual issues are so can move the conversation along. Hearing this guy complaining about things that he's unwilling to say without it being dragged out him is pretty tiresome, yet quite common. The 'what's going on in the schools' on that topic could be a worthwhile debate if actually say what mean.
I mean...it wasnt too long ago that things were slightly chsnged in society. Theres always going to be pushback on whatever progression is made, pretty natural. People dont like change, and they don't like being told what to do. If you drun up some hate towards a certain group, theres gonna be enough people disillusioned to follow along
They are actors so the comments under LBC vids can belittle anti woke mind parasite thinking. This is a propaganda arm of the evil gov / corporate agenda.
@@w-james9277everyone knows woke mindset is the psychopath. If he got a non actor caller on they wouldnt crumble. He was meant to 'crumble' hes an actor !! Youll work for NSA you are an NPC like most comments favouring woke on LBC
I'm shocked that political parties are being called out for selecting people who want to be MP's to stand in elections to become MP's, How is that fair on all those who have no interest whatsoever in being one. It's just too woke for me.......and don't ask me what woke means because you know (and you know I don't)
I think James O'Brien nailed it when he asked the caller when he last read The Guardian and he replied "never" - yet in his imagination it was some kind of cesspool. Ignorance is the problem.
A portion of woke culture means blindly adhering to an extreme version of a certain left wing tribal set of views, such as that is ok to give kids puberty blockers without taking a holistic view of their concomitant mental health issues, or that critical race theory is the only way to address equality, whereas it's arguable that it actually highlights and entrenches racial stereotypes
@@StanSwan Honestly mate, in the UK this is more increasingly used, and it's pushing people in the middle ground into the arms of the hard right. It's why Le Pen in france and Farage in the UK did so well this time around and it's scary. The point is, the extreme left idiologies here need to be modetated to stem this flow. Particularly now we see the right becoming the champions of free speech now which was unimaginable 10 years back...
I'd just say as a pro-woke person myself, I have no difficulty defining what it means. "Woke" basically means a willingness to understand and respect people who are different than you. See, that wasn't so difficult.
These people are all so frightened by things that will never affect them, or have any impact on their lives, they just want to be able to control the lives of others and dictate how others act in their own private lives while not being subject to any rules themselves.
We all need to do this. When that bloke (we all know one and it's mostly blokes) uses the word "woke" Politely but insistently ask him to define it. Keep going until they get into rant mode... May not change their minds but exposes the bigotry and thoughtless tribalism to everyone else present.
Actually They all state woke = psychopathic mindset. The caller is an actor btw the channel is neomarxist liberal dystopian propaganda. You will be a npc who works for the NSA.
@Sadenaike1 Now define "Left wing" , "Identity politics" and "Social Justice". You lumped all of them together and made a jumble of words, that doesn't even make any sense. DEFINE each of them separately.
@Sadenaike1 So, according to you, people just have to tolerate Misogyny, racism, homophobia, Xenophobia, Sexism and Transphobia then? You live in quite a imaginary world, where you will oppress people and they aren't supposed to fight back, huh?
As an American stuck in a region heavily populated with people who think almost exactly like this caller, it’s both a relief and disappointing to see that it’s not just us.
I’m tired of people copying American’s and their misuse of the word woke. It means ; ‘African-American English synonym for the General American English word awake, has since the 1930s or earlier been used to refer to awareness of social and political issues affecting African Americans. ‘ In essence it means being aware of others, being respectful kind and descent.
Love how these people get so wound up by The Guardian, just because it's the only mainstream paper aside from The Mirror and maybe The i that doesn't pander to elite right wing ideology.
@listerofsmeg884 No one gets upset about the guardian as much as the rest do over the daily mail. The reason why there’s less left wing newspapers or media outlets in the U.K. is very simple, the population is by default more centre right.
Or is it down to who owns the newspapers, because most people for instance are not on board with ever widening inequality at regular people's expense. @@eddiecalderone
She was great for some, gave people cheap houses and shares in stuff we all already owned on the cheap but decimated the foundations of a working society.
These people call in believing they have a point to make, and the instant they’re asked the most basic questions about their beliefs, they’re struck dumb.
I now hate the word ' woke'. I don't care what it means or what is supposed to mean. I just keep hearing all over the place. I feel like I'm been Tango'd every time I hear it. It's driving me nuts.
Thank you again dear James. I always wonder what it is that is taken away from this/or any cis male/female when somewhere, someone gets happy marrying the person they love. When somewhere, someone gets a little happier because they feel more at ease with the body they where born with.
People love to use the term woke but have no idea what it means. It’s simply slang, created by black people. Which means, being aware of racial prejudice and social injustice.
I'm alert to the likelihood that the folk who complain "it's woke" & have highjacked & turned it into a negative for their own ends but can't actually explain it are not dissimilar to folk who probably bandied about catchwords " it's political correctness gone mad " & " it's virtual signaling" & "you've got a chip on your shoulder ".
People will say "That's not a bigoted dog whistle, words mean what they mean" and then you ask what the words they used mean and they go "Come on, you know what I mean".
My best approximation on how to answer "you know what I'm talking about" is... "I know what kind of things you refer to, but I have generally positive opinions on those things, so I'd like a clearer definition so we can talk frankly about pros and cons"
The person could've simply stated it as it is, perverted Liberalism and censorship of traditional values or beliefs. 😂 You actually should stop being as brainwashed as a CNN viewer
Underrated comment
@@breadeater1194 That sounds like too many words for most people who use that tactic to comprehend.
Why do people ring up and simply do not prep for what they say. I hope he plays this back and feels embarrassed by his bigotry..
what a complete coward …
It's always so interesting how shy and embarassed they are to say what they actually believe. It's as if they know it's wrong and feel embarassed they believe it
Exactly this. This caller knows that by explaining his transphobic will show him to be a gross person, so attempts to dance around the topic.
@@katieheys3007
They try to blame being "cancelled" for not standing on their beliefs too. They'll claim it's so important and that this thing they consider a problem is a problem that's destroying societies, but also be too scared to speak up when asked about these ideas outside of their bubbles.
@@katieheys3007The trans issue is a big umbrella.
What do you consider trans is, and what do you consider to be transphobic?
@@JAWS-qj1rj There is no "Trans issue" only what people read in the media.
@@JAWS-qj1rj There isn't an "issue", just cynics who try to rally the hard of thinking against a small minority who want to be left alone and not get murdered. We'd probably consider your views to be transphobic, except you lack the guts to actually say them, instead hiding behind hypotheticals and whataboutisms.
Wow! What a plonker! It's difficult to argue with intelligence, but it's impossible to argue with stupidity.
😂so true.
It shouldn't be, but it is.
Especially, when the person is an expert in stupidity.
What ! - you would know would you ? 😅😂😂😂
@@VonRyansExpress-v3rthat is impossible to argue with.
So listen so you can insult. Go on one of the koolade comment sections.
JoB: What do you mean by Woke?
Caller: Well, you know...
JoB: But what does it mean?
Caller: You know, lefty stuff...
JoB: But what about an example?
Caller: ...
Ah, and there we are.
Same every time as they tip-toe and evade right up to the point the mask slips.
Every. Single. Time.
It's almost like a cult or something.
What's the horror beneath the mask? Not believing mystical gendered souls are a reason to remove female spaces? Trans activists are not just asking for rights from non discrimination. They're gaining the rights of women. This is misogyny. No one tolerates the idea of black liberation being for whites.
It drives me nuts. It's a word with no actual definition. It's this where the English language is going? Words meaning different things depending on who you ask?
"Mr. Owl - How many questions does it take to get to the transphobic center of a conservative caller?" "One, two, three~ [the sound of a phone hanging up]"
@@The_gaming_archaeologist The anti-woke stance is definitely ideological. Woke wouldn't even be a thing if it wasn't for reactionaries and their vacuous moral panic.
“I know, it’s so annoying! I ask people to define the words that they use!” 😂😂😂😂
Everything is a conspiracy when you don't understand how anything works
A beautiful nutshell around the world of lunatics claiming that elections are stolen, everything's woke and contrails are chemicals seeding hurricanes.
You've cracked the code, AnnaCentauri, and as usual I type more words to agree with someone who hits the mark in the pithiest way possible.
This is a fantastic comment.
Spot on. They think they know what they are talking about but they might as well be telling us that the Earth is flat and still because that is how we experience it.
Well.... yeah, that sums it up pretty well.
Once you know how things work then you struggle not to find conspiracy.
I love how these anti woke people never seem to see where they are being shafted, and seem fine with getting materially poorer and poorer, as long as they can be annoyed at some made up problem Murdock and Co. told them they need to worry about. It’s tragic, really.
Most of them are reasonably well off, but looking for excuses to explain why they are not yet millionaires
@@markwelch3564I agree. It’s often from fairly well off, often elderly people. Also, people tend to down play luck and circumstance in their success. So some guy who bought his house in 1975, thinks that young people today should not have any problem, as he worked hard. No doubt he did, but materially it’s completely different. No amount of saving on avocados and iPhones will make up for the wage to house price gap. It’s just awful to see how cynical these people can be and the distain they hold for people less well off than them.
That's it, just spell it like it sounds, you can't go wrong.
Keep up with the gaslighting.
@@voodoochile333 bohooo bohoooo *Far-right is the victim boohoooo
If you listen closely on a windy day, you can hear a whistling from that caller's ears as the breeze passes through.
😂😂
No need to listen closely it’s more like a howling wolf!!
Some say that if you put your ear to his you can hear the soothing ocean breeze.
@@Thykothaken I thought he made some interesting points
@@RichardX123 For instance?
So what's Woke?
He basically says 'Anything that goes against my bigoted views'
@michael So what are your bigoted views?
True !!
Which is Woke 😂
Woke is a slang term for cultural Marxism
easy to define
@@Anygodwilldo Woke is a term for anything the Right Hates or Fears.
It’s like this guy just woke up from a coma the day Thatcher was kicked out
just the start bit no further
Some woke is sensible, some is silly and then we get to the ridiculous like banning Delilah at rugby matches.
woke! it’s all gone woke! 😂
@bamber Violence against women can never be justified...even in song.😉😊
@@TomBartram-b1csinging that song at a rugby match is odd.
Some people need to stop reading the Daily Mail and start thinking for themselves.
I cover up the Daily Mails on display with a couple of Guardians 😉🤭
What listen yo the Morning Star
It’s not even the Daily Mail it’s just being online & having the algorithm fry your brain.
@algernon Which you have finally come round to doing. Better late than never!
@@algernonwolfwhistle6351 You could say exactly the same thing about your newspaper because the Guardian really does know how to brainwash people!
This bloke is definitely not awoke or awake
😂😂
@@123slither he needs some more leftist Marxist propaganda
He's bordering on narcolepsy. (mis spelt)
I love that people actually call in to tie themselves in knots
They believe they are right and they can not fail because of it?
It's because most LBC presenters like Nick Ferrari are Tories so don't challenge them like O'Brien does.
But O'Brein won't debate Matt Goodwin or Douglas Murray, I wonder why,?
@@dooda77penn19 I've never heard of Douglas Murray. But Matt Goodwin? The same Matt Goodwin who's still beating the Brexit drum about people voting for it to lower immigration when it's a fact that leaving the EU has increased it ten fold but he never talks about that? O'Brien would destroy him with basic facts just like he did Farage during the referendum on his show.
I don't think they do - it's just that if your opinion differs to O'Bigot's you have to be prepared to be interrupted and chastised as a fool.
He likes to be right, but he never talks about Carl Beech any more. That said, he does still like to imply that Brexit was a Mainstream Media plot, and that the Tory press facilitated it because LEAVE voters were just too dumb to spot lies and falsehoods in a legitimate national and democratic vote where we all had a free choice!
Beech was a liar and a bit mentally unwell - there was no high-level cover-up in the media, Westminster, the police and the DPP over a child molestation ring at the heart of the British establishment.
Calling someone woke is the modern day equivalent of calling someone a witch.
I mean, at least they could give a clear description of what they thought a witch WAS.
Only for right wingers who like to use it as an insult, which it isn’t.
@@reefhog That's the fascinating thing to me, that they use it as an insult where it actually just means you've made a conscious effort to understand the world and all it's people and issues around you instead of clamming up and living in a fantasy world that never changes. That and using PC as an insult, like yeah, I try and be polite and courteous to everyone I meet and keep company with? Crazy world we're living in right now, in so many ways.
@@ryanmartin6429 PC is only an insult if you're a Mac fan
Or a Communist
Thatcher was a monster who did so many terrible things for the Uk that has directly caused most of the current problems in the Uk, at least the ones not only caused by brexit.
😂😂😂 err no Blairs gov.
reagan was even worse for america but i feel your pain.
@@zacharyriley4122 he definitely was. We had Howard who was almost as bad as both of them. At least he did gun control, though if he didn’t the country would have done everything possible to get rid of him quickly.
I absolutely LOVE it when they cannot define it.
Define what?
@@pfhastie Watch the video to the end.
"you know what it is" is always the comeback
Not in real life.
@@pfhastieAlright then, define woke for me
The tumbleweed moment when asked if he’d ever read the Guardian 😂
You don’t need to read the Guardian to know that it’s insufferably Woke ditto the same with the BBC!
But he knows it’s bad because they say so on the internet. Yet if you asked him about the Iraq war he’d probably repeat everything the Guardian was saying prior to the war and if you asked him about tax avoidance he’d probably repeat information from the Panama papers the Guardian released.
who in their right mind , would admit to reading the Guardian ?
@@bigbinji6145 someone with a better command of the English language than you.
@@bigbinji6145Me
Woke is an opaque and amorphous place holder applied liberally by the cowardly and weak.
I shall save this to quote. "As dirtydish himself once said..."
In fact this could be said of many words bandied about. Even perhaps the issue is that this is the quality that far too many of our words have nowadays, and more and more and more of them.
Such a strong, conservative statement 😂
Their hypocrisy and contradictions go completely unnoticed because they have absolutely no insight into themselves. They hold these beliefs without ANY critical thought about what these beliefs actually mean in their life.
I’ll define it for him
WOKE=basic empathy
Sounds more like
woke = anti-bigotry
And this guy just doesn't like that he can't openly be a bigot without criticism for it.
Woke is actually a term black Americans created for being aware of there surroundings and somehow was flipped by the right wing conservatives who hate black America.
'Woke' means 'liberal' as far as I'm concerned.
@@tonybates7870 well.... there's the problem that many political parties titled "liberal" are anything but....
@@annpeerkat2020
Yeah, but . . . you know what I mean.
So he’s not happy that the Tories aren’t bigoted enough for his liking. “Why hasn’t he joined Reform?” is the question screaming at me.
@Oneeye And my question is what's it got to do with you?😊
@@chatham43 everything !
@@chatham43 What a bizarre question. Exactly the same as my comment here has to do with you. It’s committed to a public forum where anyone can discuss the points raised. Are you new to public expression of opinion?
But why your obsession with reform? They've got 5 MPs!
@@OneEyedWheelerChatham43 is one of these people who believe in free speech… but only as long as you agree with his/her bigoted opinions!
From what I've been able to gather, "being woke" is anti DEI. In other words, "being woke" acknowledges that all diverse people should be included in a society where they have equal legal and moral rights to thrive in that society.
Nah, it's broader than that. Woke is anything they don't like.
Like pedos and criminals?
@msud It's self righteous virtue signallers who believe they care more about equality and social justice than the average guy in the street because they constantly signpost it on social media.😊
Just the opposite: DEI is a product of Woke ideology, specifically Critical Race Theory and its doctrines!
And "Equality of Opportunity" is already enshrined in Law, at least for race. Class is another matter though!
@@voodoochile333got one.
Calling things "woke" just means you can't actually point to something you think is wrong, rather you just don't like the vague idea of change and anything you don't understand
I think many people know exactly what they're talking about when they say "woke". They have bigoted views but are also cowards, too afraid to express what they truly think in public, so they use that blanket term.
Very well put.
😂😂 you are so odd 😂😂
Woke is the gaslighting psychopath
@@lena-Ramone Almost as odd as you, baby! ;-)
'Woke', more ofren than not, means either care or consideration for other people or a minimum of an awareness of something. So, being anti-woke tells us plenty about you....
Pretty much. Often that's how I've interpreted what they mean by "Anti-woke"
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Yet the most intolerant people among us, tend to be those who define themselves as woke
No.
Woke is identity politics.
It’s a pyramid of victim status ,based on perceived persecution and used as weaponised morality for individual advancement and empire building.
For example , Stonewall or BLM.
Woke, as in awake to the reality of historic persecution.
The claims of persecution don’t have to be real , recent , frequent or severe.
Its ironic that in claiming their victim status that the self identified victims are willing to victimise people who disagree with their position and aggressively attack and attempt to compel others to submit to their views.
For example the trans lobby and the aggressive attacks on ‘terfs’ .
@@Insecthouseand in the pyramid of victim status, it's wierd how often right wingers claim eternal victimhood 🤔
Woke:
Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) originally meaning alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination. Beginning in the 2010s, it came to be used as slang for a broader awareness of social inequalities such as racial injustice, sexism, and denial of LGBTQIA rights.
Tht was the original meaning. But once the right-wingers hijacked it, it lost all meaning.
A little earlier, the same happened to "social justice warrior", which was a term in hard-left circles with a rather narrow meaning. Once "SJW" was over-used, the right-wingers switched to "woke".
Partly untrue.
@ look up
It’s definition and you’ll get that exact definition.
@@andybray9791 Enlighten us.
Well done for calling out people who have no idea of the meaning of the words they are using. Especially sexist bigots. I’m from Chippenham. My heart felt apologies.
You need to move for your own sanity.
@@susannahhunt100 I’ll not be giving it it up to the haters. I actually like Chippenham 🙂.
Anything that is progressive, gives people equal rights or respect is called woke by them. Remember being woke isn't a bad thing.
I never thought it was. But why is it when some people are presented with a phenomenon that is outside of their personal experience that they don't make up their minds to research it any way but instead automatically decide that it must be nonsense? And think of themselves as rational people!
If you are far right and want to suppress peoples rights then woke is bad.
@@opinion3742Dunning Kruger.
@miguel You don't get it do you.😊
@@chatham43 he got it perfectly correct, it seems like you're the one who doesn't get it.
Isn't getting married one of the most traditional conservative values? 😂
Ah yes, but not those people, clearly only people like him!
Absolutely. Cameron even said this. No government should ever get involved with who they should marry.
Sadly, a lot of non heterosexual unions/marriages have lasted longer than heterosexual marriages…multiple marriages…making a mockery of the church
"I don't know why, I had an inkling you'd like him" on Lee Anderson 😂
He's typical of the anti woke brigade when asked to define the word/term woke.
woke is actually censorship
Wetherspoons pub chat after 6 pints.
You should know gammon.
@pwizzle Never been in one myself. What's the price of a pint there?
@@chatham43you’d get change off a 5er I know that much
One of my favourite phrases comes from working in pubs. Dry led and wet led pubs just means they sell more, led by, food or alcohol. So 'talking wet', for me is that conversation after 6 pints where gibberish and nonsense is usually met with 'you're talking wet, mate'.
@@chatham43you’ll get a pint for £2.50
It worries me that people out there have these attitudes in 2024, we have comprehensively failed in our education!
It worries me that people out there have these attitudes in 2024, we have comprehensively failed in our indoctrination! - FYP
He no doubt went to a Private school.
Just like OBRIEN
@@Propyl22 they remember a better time.
@@Propyl22there's a reason why a lot of anti woke obsessives are middle aged or older: nostalgia.
Everyone seems to hark back to their teenage and early 20s. Life was simpler, the grass was greener. Its often nostalgia for the 50s and 60s, for people born in the 1940s.
People born in the 1960s hark back to the 80s. Was arguing with someone about crime rates - sky high due to immigration, apparently. They were adamant crime was lower when they were a teenager in the 90s. No amount of stats would convince them otherwise.
It's all just rose tinted stuff.
“Labour did not get anymore votes than they did under Jeremy Corbyn”
In other words… Corbyn was/is electable.
13 million People voted against Corbyn twice ... He is unelectable, 2 tries wasn't enough was it? Should Labour have wasted even more time?
No, he wasn't.
@@TestyCol cause the establishment would never allow real democracy
They got less
Corbyn also had the effect of uniting so many centralist voters against him that it resulted in Johnsons enormous majority and Labour's greatest defeat in over 70 years. Yes some people liked Corbyn but many more disliked and distrusted him so much, they were prepaired to support Johnson.
"Woke" is just "Engaging brain before putting pie-hole in gear".
Errr nope, woke is engaging feelings before facts.
@@sijcalv you mind giving some examples of those facts?
@@asherz3621How about women having XY chromosomes?
@@asherz3621 Feelings dictate that someone born with XY chromosomes can identify as a man, rather than as a woman who follows male gender norms. Facts and biology say otherwise.
@@asherz3621 Feelings lead to trans people born with XY chromosomes being officially labelled as men, rather than as women who may choose to follow male gender norms.
Facts and biology say otherwise.
“Whats going on in schools”
The same stuff I was doing almost 30 years ago from what I see of my senior school age kids.
You did trans ideology in the 90s?
@@stephenmurray2851No, and neither have my daughters. They do old boring stuff like English, maths and Science. They do more on technology than I did and they get less homework. There’s no trans ideology classes. Must be an after school club?
@@dp7580 perhaps.
@@stephenmurray2851 drag queens have been around a lot longer than the 90's
@@stephenmurray2851no one’s doing it, bud.
If you can't define woke, you probably shouldn't have a say in the Conservative party.
That be the entire Conservative Party then
Labour are so awake that they’ll have a trans woman as their leader before a biological woman.
Seems that applies to all conservatives all the way from the UK to the US in both directions.
The Marxist left keep changing definitions
As a parent of a transgender son, come here mate I’ll explain the whole thing to you 👍🏼
Can you explain how someone can be the "wrong gender"?
@keifer7813 I mean you could google it and find the answer yourself. One could assume that you are only looking for a fight asking dumb questions like that, when you have the whole internet to research things.
It wouldn't help, because they just want someone to hate on, as a distraction from thinking about their miserable, lacklustre lives.
@@mcmillan9 I have researched it and it doesn't make sense. The fact some of you get so triggered by questioning it is very telling of your dogmatic attitudes.
So you can either answer the question or go away and let someone who can
@@keifer7813 Hehe 'triggered', you are funny. I only suggested you do some research. Tbf it's not for me to explain it to you. Peer reviewed research could do better than I could to do that. Or maybe, if you are genuine in learning, you could ask some trans people, who are up for educating you on the subject.
Woke" is an adjective that means being aware of and attentive to important issues, especially those related to racial and social justice.
Which is unacceptable to bigots, who need a word to disguise what they really mean, which is precisely why they can't define it because that would be to let the mask slip.
Not anymore though.
Now it means overly trying not to be discriminatory and offensive.
@@Bickle121 Well not really. It means that to you, but not to those for whom it essentially means progressive and anti-discriminatory. This fixation on a single word (coined by the civil rights movement and since hijacked by the right-wing to mean what you suggest it means) is toxic due to its lack of a stable meaning.
Maybe it is time to go back to more tangible words? Then at least the debate can be had using words whose meaning both sides agree on, otherwise it is all essentially meaningless.
@@mattc971It was coined by a civil rights movement, just not the one you are thinking of. Abraham Lincoln's supporters referred to themselves as the Wide Awake, 160 years ago.
@@Gabriel_H77 OK thanks for correcting a presumed error (assuming I was unaware of the Wide Awakes), but that doesn't alter my central point.
It's incredible to think these people are out there and able to vote . 🙈
@zombie You can always move away if democracy bothers you. You do realise that?
@chatham43
🥱 And the same to you if you don't like my comment . Where you impressed with the caller then ?
@zombie Does that mean we're stuck with you?
@chatham43
😂😂😂 I 'm afraid so .
Caller puts the phone down. "That told him!" he says out loud to himself.
Anyone you hear complaining about someone being woke I can almost guarantee they'll have no definition for the term.
Actually works 100% of the time
It's refreshing to know that the UK has these clowns too. I live in rural America and hear this same rhetoric all the time.
Classic non-answer to disguise bigotry
They can’t help themselves
Liz Truss was in the Liberal Party and an anti-monarchist to boot. I think this caller likes the honourable limp lettuce for South West Norfolk now.
@alan ah.... I see at the end you got in your limp lettuce jibe. . I was beginning to wonder what the point of your post was.😊
@@chatham43 like all the other comments on this vid this is a NSA NPC robot
I am woke, woke, woke woke, woke! The most wokey woke!
@hey You've perfectly illustrated in the manner of your post why some people take issue with it.😊
@chatham43 @asherz3621 if you destroy the meaning of gender, race and with identity politics can be anything you say your are, then you undermine social norms for a political ideology to take over. That's woke, Marxism rebranded.
Great job as always James. It's always hilarious when you ask these "opinionated" individuals specific questions, they immediately start to flounder. Proof, they only have talking points but mostly zero substance behind it
It's almost like you know what word salads a right-winger is going to say before they say it.
Everything looks “too woke” when you’re looking at the world through a far-right lens. 😂
Considering it represents progress. Anything that does not conform to the norms of yesterday are therefore considered woke.
Yes and everyone to you must seem “far right” when looking at the world through your woke tinted spectacles.
That’s an awful lot of far right fascists in your world then! 🙄
@Ibluntlysaywhatithink What does woke mean?
@@Ibluntlysaywhatithink Only the people trying to stoke hatred towards groups of minorities or somehow blame those groups for the country's problems are what I'd call "far right"
You're not one of those are you?
@@Ibluntlysaywhatithink So woke just means left-wing? Is that the definition you're going for?
My favourite question is always "what aren't you allowed to say that you would like to say?". The only two answers are either them saying something that they're completely able to say (and people say in the media all the time; they are just upset people call them out for saying it), or just totally clamming up and being unable to bring themselves to admit what they're really wanting say.
Everyone is so focused on the woke parts, but this is my favorite part.
I wanted to know what was happening in schools. I'm a teacher and, after just spending period 5 trying to get Year 11 to at least feign some interest in A Christmas Carol, I would love to know what he thinks we're all up to.
I don't believe a comedian ringing in and pretending to be a right-wing Farage fan could have made more of a caricature than that
Phew, what a loony.
😂
Phew what an npc you are 😂
@@lena-Ramone A what?
@@lena-Ramone A what?
I love how James does nothing more than simply holding the mirror up.
Whoever screens these calls and identifies the biggest wallies deserves a raise
Not really. Is the point really to supply o Brien with low hanging fruit?
@@pauls7803 it's not their fault that the fruits are deciding to fall on the ground
The callers are actors on here, LBC is a propaganda arm of the gov/corps. You are an NPC
They always pick the most absurd things to get worked up about.
Forever angry at all the wrong people for all the wrong reasons.
As James pointed out in another video. It always come back to the matter of Transgender for anyone that is against a left leaning political party.
Well err yeah amongst other madness from neo marxist champagne socialists
I'm sure could find a few other things they've in common when against left leaning parties. I wish more of them would just be honest about what their actual issues are so can move the conversation along. Hearing this guy complaining about things that he's unwilling to say without it being dragged out him is pretty tiresome, yet quite common.
The 'what's going on in the schools' on that topic could be a worthwhile debate if actually say what mean.
how do these callers end up like this? actual muppet
They're used to talking in a echo chamber. When actually challenged properly they crumble.
I mean...it wasnt too long ago that things were slightly chsnged in society.
Theres always going to be pushback on whatever progression is made, pretty natural.
People dont like change, and they don't like being told what to do.
If you drun up some hate towards a certain group, theres gonna be enough people disillusioned to follow along
They are actors so the comments under LBC vids can belittle anti woke mind parasite thinking. This is a propaganda arm of the evil gov / corporate agenda.
@@w-james9277everyone knows woke mindset is the psychopath. If he got a non actor caller on they wouldnt crumble. He was meant to 'crumble' hes an actor !! Youll work for NSA you are an NPC like most comments favouring woke on LBC
I wonder if 'woke' is in the room with him right now...
I'm shocked that political parties are being called out for selecting people who want to be MP's to stand in elections to become MP's, How is that fair on all those who have no interest whatsoever in being one. It's just too woke for me.......and don't ask me what woke means because you know (and you know I don't)
It means you’re really a hater but you don’t want to be called out for it
How does he think "Never" is a clever response to reading something?
I think James O'Brien nailed it when he asked the caller when he last read The Guardian and he replied "never" - yet in his imagination it was some kind of cesspool. Ignorance is the problem.
Woke is the opposite of being brain dead.
A portion of woke culture means blindly adhering to an extreme version of a certain left wing tribal set of views, such as that is ok to give kids puberty blockers without taking a holistic view of their concomitant mental health issues, or that critical race theory is the only way to address equality, whereas it's arguable that it actually highlights and entrenches racial stereotypes
@@SiRushBass Only to a MAGA person who misuses the term.
@@StanSwan Honestly mate, in the UK this is more increasingly used, and it's pushing people in the middle ground into the arms of the hard right. It's why Le Pen in france and Farage in the UK did so well this time around and it's scary. The point is, the extreme left idiologies here need to be modetated to stem this flow. Particularly now we see the right becoming the champions of free speech now which was unimaginable 10 years back...
Surely James meant Liz Truss rather than Theresa May as the most successful female Conservative leader? 🤣🤣🤣
People use the word 'Woke' as an insult, but mostly they're using it because they don't know the words 'empathetic', 'educated', or 'enlightened'
I'd just say as a pro-woke person myself, I have no difficulty defining what it means. "Woke" basically means a willingness to understand and respect people who are different than you. See, that wasn't so difficult.
What a wally
What an NPC you are
🤣Tories are always ridiculous when they start speaking.
Ever thought of going into comedy?
@ysgotty And then start making sense. The opposite of Labour. I prefer the end result. What about you?😊
@@voodoochile333 Already am thanks 🙂
@@chatham43 Too incomprehensible to reply to I'm afraid Professor Tory 🙂
@ys Take it to your school teacher. She'll explain it to you.😊
These people are all so frightened by things that will never affect them, or have any impact on their lives, they just want to be able to control the lives of others and dictate how others act in their own private lives while not being subject to any rules themselves.
We all need to do this. When that bloke (we all know one and it's mostly blokes) uses the word "woke" Politely but insistently ask him to define it. Keep going until they get into rant mode... May not change their minds but exposes the bigotry and thoughtless tribalism to everyone else present.
Your unfortunately hearing the same thing about woke as i am in Québec Canada
It is the same in America when you ask anti woke, what woke means. You get jibberish.
Actually They all state woke = psychopathic mindset. The caller is an actor btw the channel is neomarxist liberal dystopian propaganda. You will be a npc who works for the NSA.
Can’t believe that Colin from Portsmouth called in to James O’Brien again!
Love to the family!
When you ask them what "Woke" actually means they get tongue tied. They keep spouting the word but oblivious to what the word represents.
The moment the word “woke” became politicised it lost any meaning it had. And I thought “woke” meant you stopped sleeping.
If you can't define it, just call it woke. What bugs me just as much is the insanely over-used/abused term 'iconic'.
Wrong, the men and women who fought for us in ww2 would be ashamed of how the left and woke have destroyed the uK
You know when something is genuinely iconic, when nobody needs to say it out loud!
TH-cam deleting comments again so the woke narrative continues
@Sadenaike1 Now define "Left wing" , "Identity politics" and "Social Justice". You lumped all of them together and made a jumble of words, that doesn't even make any sense.
DEFINE each of them separately.
@Sadenaike1 So, according to you, people just have to tolerate Misogyny, racism, homophobia, Xenophobia, Sexism and Transphobia then?
You live in quite a imaginary world, where you will oppress people and they aren't supposed to fight back, huh?
it always boils down to not being bigoted enough for these people. they just make you work to get them to admit it.
its fascinating how they know its so wrong that they cant admit it publicly but are also willing to die on a hill for it.
As an American stuck in a region heavily populated with people who think almost exactly like this caller, it’s both a relief and disappointing to see that it’s not just us.
As an American 😂😂
well as a Brit we dont give a f u k what a lefty USA woke bro thinks . do one 😂
@@lena-Ramone So an anti-woke person is someone against human rights?
"Telling people they can be six different genders".
I despair sometimes. All these idiot clichés that mean nothing. Can these people hear themselves?
I’m tired of people copying American’s and their misuse of the word woke. It means ; ‘African-American English synonym for the General American English word awake, has since the 1930s or earlier been used to refer to awareness of social and political issues affecting African Americans. ‘ In essence it means being aware of others, being respectful kind and descent.
The Chippenham Conservative association sounds A riotous night out
Love how these people get so wound up by The Guardian, just because it's the only mainstream paper aside from The Mirror and maybe The i that doesn't pander to elite right wing ideology.
The guardian is soft and absorbant.
@lister You do know what mainstream means?
@listerofsmeg884
No one gets upset about the guardian as much as the rest do over the daily mail. The reason why there’s less left wing newspapers or media outlets in the U.K. is very simple, the population is by default more centre right.
Or is it down to who owns the newspapers, because most people for instance are not on board with ever widening inequality at regular people's expense. @@eddiecalderone
What sort of person thinks Thatcher was anything but heinous?
@soul The millions of voters who consistently voted her in. Not rocket science!
Probably those who don't want 5o rely on the state for anything
She was great for some, gave people cheap houses and shares in stuff we all already owned on the cheap but decimated the foundations of a working society.
The few people who were able to make money during her reign. Maybe some who brought their house.
@franky Can't think who you were thinking of. And it's bought...not brought.😊
15% Understanding in what they believe. 100% Conviction in the belief.
These people are exhausting no matter where they live!!!
Turning up to a debate with James even though you have done zero research, on your own topic of choice is like going yo a gunfight with a knife.
I feel like James is just trying to win an argument though - he knows what woke really is
@robertwilson3866 he most definitely knows what woke is. He just enjoys when people use words they don't understand and can't explain.
So essentially he wants the Conservative Party to go back to being opening discriminatory against the groups within society he doesn't like.
pretty much
I love the way James manages effortlessly to tie these callers in knots and get them to trip over their own ignorance.
I love how mad they get when you ask them to explain the words they use.
These people call in believing they have a point to make, and the instant they’re asked the most basic questions about their beliefs, they’re struck dumb.
I now hate the word ' woke'. I don't care what it means or what is supposed to mean. I just keep hearing all over the place. I feel like I'm been Tango'd every time I hear it. It's driving me nuts.
That last little “hmm” on the hat-trick was just gold! GOLD I tell ya! Absolutely out of this world……
James, do you find your job sometimes incredibly easy? It certainly seems that way when taking apart this caller! Keep up the great work!
Thank you again dear James. I always wonder what it is that is taken away from this/or any cis male/female when somewhere, someone gets happy marrying the person they love. When somewhere, someone gets a little happier because they feel more at ease with the body they where born with.
This is gold! Sheep trying to define words they don’t understand! 😂😂😂
To be fair Theresa May is the greatest female prime minister we’ve ever had but that’s only through default. 😂
Shes' also the greatest of the last 6 British PM's, 7 if you include D. Lettuce.
People love to use the term woke but have no idea what it means. It’s simply slang, created by black people. Which means, being aware of racial prejudice and social injustice.
I'm alert to the likelihood that the folk who complain "it's woke" & have highjacked & turned it into a negative for their own ends but can't actually explain it are not dissimilar to folk who probably bandied about catchwords " it's political correctness gone mad " & " it's virtual signaling" & "you've got a chip on your shoulder ".
If you hate something then you first need to be able to discribe it.
@Richard And spell it correctly.
A great example of letting an "anti-woke" person dig their own hole. Well done
I think I know what they mean by “woke”. They mean human rights. They don’t like human rights for anyone that is different from them.