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Calling someone 'woke' is as bad as using a 'racial slur,' actress says: It's 'deeply offensive'
Fox News ^ | 9/27/23 | Taylor Penley

Posted on 09/28/2023 4:19:15 PM PDT by Libloather

British actress Cathy Tyson thinks the term "woke" is equivalent to a racial slur, according to a recent sit-down discussion with the Telegraph's Chris Harvey.

"I imagine some of the readership use the word ‘woke’. For me, it’s as bad a term as an offensive racial slur. The terms ‘woke’ and ‘race card’ are deeply offensive to me," she said in an article published Tuesday.

Woke, according to Tyson, serves to "undermine" progressive ideals, adding that the term "race card" is "thrown in your face if you make a criticism of anything."

"Even the term ‘White privilege’ is very, very divisive. I’m not about sides," she added.

The 58-year-old "Mona Lisa" star joined Harvey to discuss an upcoming four-part spinoff of the 2021 BAFTA-nominated British drama "Boiling Point," as well as her background in film.

She prefaced the discussion about "woke" by telling Harvey she would have never sat down with the Telegraph – a more conservative British outlet – for an interview when she was younger, but she learned to value different perspectives while studying English at Brunel University in west London.

"[It] taught me how to open my mind to different viewpoints," she explained, setting the stage to discuss her distaste for divisive language.

Born to a White mother and a Black father, the actress said she experienced racism while living in a predominantly White neighborhood as a child. She told the outlet she credits her mixed-race identity for her wish for everyone to come together.

"It’s complex, there’s a lot of people of all colors who are suffering financially, who are hungry, at the moment," she said. Later in the interview, Tyson said she supports more limitless casting in film, which would involve hiring actors with a "color-blind, size-blind, age-blind" approach.

The term "woke" has become synonymous...

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KEYWORDS: actress; blackracistsmatter; race; slur; uglynegress; woke; wokeracist
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Runnin' out of terms. How about 'going dipstick'?
1 posted on 09/28/2023 4:19:15 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

I find the term “toe fungus” racially offensive.


2 posted on 09/28/2023 4:20:37 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (And the invasion of America continues while the RAT Party worries about the Ukraine.)
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To: Libloather

Don’t care.


3 posted on 09/28/2023 4:20:57 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Libloather

What a woke twit.


4 posted on 09/28/2023 4:23:00 PM PDT by A strike (Words can have gender, humans cannot.)
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To: Libloather

You’re born with your race. Nobody is born “woke”. Only years wasted on social(ist) media and college brainwashing makes you a woketard. As such calling this woketard “woke” is fair game.


5 posted on 09/28/2023 4:23:17 PM PDT by In_Iowa_not_from
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To: Libloather
The term "woke" is stupid and meaningless.

The correct terms are "anti-white racist" and "anti-Christian bigot."

That's what "woke" actually means.

6 posted on 09/28/2023 4:24:17 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Libloather

Any more than calling someone you disagree with a nazi, Cathy? I guess that’s okay, right?

If I want to call someone “woke” then I reserve the right to do so and will do. If that upsets you, then you can just get glad in the same drawers you got mad in.


7 posted on 09/28/2023 4:24:21 PM PDT by cross_bearer_02
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To: Libloather

Cathy should shut up, and make me a sammich.


8 posted on 09/28/2023 4:25:59 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Libloather

Shut up Limey.


9 posted on 09/28/2023 4:27:03 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: Libloather

Well, Cath, ‘wokeness’ if very offensive.


10 posted on 09/28/2023 4:27:41 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Libloather

I guess I am going to have to stop doing that... I need suggestions for other derogatory terms to use.


11 posted on 09/28/2023 4:30:01 PM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You'e Welcome.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
"Woke" was their own term for themselves. That it gained pejorative status had far more to do with their own antics and assertions, than with those who mocked and derided them at every opportunity. Those who mean to be hurtful just get a little payback when it gets turned upon them.
12 posted on 09/28/2023 4:33:51 PM PDT by alloysteel (Be kind to your web-footed friends. That duck may be somebody's mother.)
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To: Libloather

Who??


13 posted on 09/28/2023 4:34:56 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Libloather

The left are the ones who came up with the term and now it’s offensive?

Get a life.


14 posted on 09/28/2023 4:36:56 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: Libloather

Awww poor thing, it’s offensive. Then don’t behave …’woke’.


15 posted on 09/28/2023 4:37:12 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: fireman15

“Azzhole” is pretty much gender neutral.


16 posted on 09/28/2023 4:37:14 PM PDT by alloysteel (Be kind to your web-footed friends. That duck may be somebody's mother.)
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Well retard actress; you can choose to be a woketard, but you can’t choose your skin color. So quit being a woke bitty, would ya?


17 posted on 09/28/2023 4:38:04 PM PDT by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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Exactly.......


18 posted on 09/28/2023 4:38:05 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: Libloather

Didn’t “woke” start out as a word Lefties called each other, to show they were enlightened and progressive?

And we were the “non-woke,” or the “un-woke,” and that was an insult?

But then, the “woke” started showing, by their deeds, how stupid and destructive and uncivilized they are. Over time, “woke” stopped being an abstraction of something good, and started being a synonym for something bad.

So now, they want to identify it as equivalent to a racial insult, to get us to stop using it against them.

They’ve done this countless times over the years.


19 posted on 09/28/2023 4:39:39 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Libloather

Their “offense” should never be our concern.


20 posted on 09/28/2023 4:45:30 PM PDT by marktwain
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