{"id":1785992,"date":"2022-12-24T16:48:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T21:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785992"},"modified":"2022-12-24T16:48:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T21:48:54","slug":"watch-dr-ben-carson-explains-where-wokeness-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-dr-ben-carson-explains-where-wokeness-came-from\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Dr. Ben Carson Explains Where \u2018Wokeness\u2019 Came From"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-dr-ben-carson-explains-where-wokeness-came-from%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785992&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ben-carson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Carson<\/a>, a neurosurgeon and former Trump administration official, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/fox-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> in an interview this week that wokeness came from political correctness that started back in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Carson made the remarks during an interview on \u201cHannity\u201d with guest host Tammy Bruce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I talked, the first time I spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in 1997, about the fact that political correctness, if we continued along that pathway, was going to destroy our nation, it has continued to get worse,\u201d Carson said. \u201cNow it\u2019s morphed into wokeness. And we have a situation on our college campuses where students are afraid to express themselves, conservative students are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCollege is supposed to be a place where you explore, and you have an opportunity to discuss certain things so that you can determine which way you\u2019re going. And basically, what\u2019s happening is people are being shut down,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd it doesn\u2019t have to be the government that shuts down your freedom of speech, you know, big tech, social media, college professors can shut down your speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>TAMMY BRUCE, FOX NEWS: Welcome back to this special edition of Hannity. Tis the season for extreme wokeness. At least that\u2019s the case at one church in England, where the classic Christmas hymn \u201cGod Rest Ye Merry Gentleman\u201d was rewritten to include left-wing lyrics like \u201cGod rests you queer and questioning, your anxious hearts be still.\u201d I\u2019m sorry. We just can\u2019t. I mean, come on. But there\u2019s plenty of wackiness to go around back here at home, too, where our own U.S. Marines could soon be told not to address their superiors as \u201csir\u201d or \u201cma\u2019am.\u201d In order to avoid \u2014 are you ready?m\u2014 misgendering them. The University of Pittsburgh was paid $2 million by the Marines to come up with recommendations like this one. Or for more woke madness, just look to Detroit, where a school board just voted to remove the name of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and former HUD Secretary Ben Carson from a public high school because he\u2019s a Republican. And Dr. Ben Carson joins me right now. He is the founder and chairman of the American Cornerstone Institute. Dr. Carson, of course, this isn\u2019t your first round at the rodeo, is it? You\u2019ve been right in the arena, you know what the deal is, you continue to serve this nation. And these are petty things. But when it comes to, as an example, conservatives on campus, and the nature of, I think you\u2019ve probably heard about Stanford issuing this list of forbidden words, and what, you know, was meant for, you know, their IT group and you couldn\u2019t say \u201cAmerican,\u201d because that, you know, would upset the rest of the countries in North America, it gets down to being kind of like a pathology, or a pathological obsession. What is your take on our direction here these days?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DR. BEN CARSON: Well, thank you, Tammy. And Merry Christmas. You know, I talked, the first time I spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in 1997, about the fact that political correctness, if we continued along that pathway, was going to destroy our nation. It has continued to get worse. Now, it\u2019s morphed into wokeness. And we have a situation on our college campuses where students are afraid to express themselves, conservative students are. College is supposed to be a place where you explore, and you have an opportunity to discuss certain things so that you can determine which way you\u2019re going. And basically, what\u2019s happening is people are being shut down. And it doesn\u2019t have to be the government that shuts down your freedom of speech, you know, big tech, social media, college professors can shut down your speech. And if the government is compliant with that, it\u2019s the same as if they\u2019re doing it. And we, the American people, should be outraged about that. Our freedoms come from God \u2014 that\u2019s stated in our Declaration of Independence, and yet we\u2019re allowing them to be taken away from us. And now, we also have a government that is insinuating itself into every aspect of our lives. You know, liberty and community was about what the people could do, not what the government could do. And it\u2019s impacting us tremendously. You look at the omnibus bill that was just passed, and all the pork that\u2019s in there, and all the programs, you know, these are not programs that the government is supposed to be doing. These are things that we the people are supposed to be doing, and how we\u2019re supposed to be working together in our communities to strengthen ourselves. And we\u2019re allowing all of that to be taken away from us. We don\u2019t \u2014 most people don\u2019t even know their neighbors anymore, don\u2019t even know what their names are, have no<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon and former Trump administration official, told Fox News in an interview this week that wokeness came from political correctness that started back in the 1990s. 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