{"id":593486,"date":"2021-07-16T12:06:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T16:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=593486"},"modified":"2021-07-16T12:06:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T16:06:25","slug":"the-woke-are-not-zany-guests-they-are-home-invasion-robbers-abigail-shrier-fires-back-at-woke-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-woke-are-not-zany-guests-they-are-home-invasion-robbers-abigail-shrier-fires-back-at-woke-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Woke Are Not Zany Guests. They Are Home-Invasion Robbers\u2019: Abigail Shrier Fires Back At \u2018Woke\u2019 Movement"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fthe-woke-are-not-zany-guests-they-are-home-invasion-robbers-abigail-shrier-fires-back-at-woke-movement%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=593486&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Abigail-Shrier.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This week, author Abigail Shrier, who has been and continues to be attacked by the \u201cwoke\u201d movement for her book \u201cIrreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,\u201d fired back at the \u201cwoke\u201d movement, charging, \u201cThe Woke are not zany guests. They are home-invasion robbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NBC News&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/amazon-workers-petition-two-quit-over-anti-lgbtq-book-sales-n1273870\">reported<\/a> this week that at least two Amazon employees had recently quit protesting Amazon\u2019s selling of Shrier\u2019s book. As&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/amazon-workers-petition-two-quit-over-anti-lgbtq-book-sales-n1273870\">reported<\/a> by NBC News, \u201cThe resignations come after a complaint posted to the company\u2019s internal message board in April drew the support of over 467 Amazon corporate employees, according to a copy obtained by NBC News. As of last year, the company employed over 1.3 million people worldwide and is the second-largest employer in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShrier said in a statement, per the outlet: \u2018This issue won\u2019t go away just because some disgruntled Amazon employees wish it would. And banning the book won\u2019t help these girls or anyone else. \u2026 My book goes out of its way to honor the experiences of transgender adults, never disparages them, and never implies that the trans identity is a mental illness,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/amazon-employees-sign-petition-quit-over-company-selling-book-about-transgender-movement\/\">The Daily Wire<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2020, Target removed Shrier\u2019s book after a customer complained about the book being \u201ctransphobic.\u201d Target reacted to the complaint by stating, \u201cThank you so much for bringing this to our attention. We have removed this book from our assortment.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.9375\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. We have removed this book from our assortment.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AskTarget (@AskTarget) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AskTarget\/status\/1326988559421759488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Shrier fired back, \u201cTarget.com just made my book disappear. Does it bother anyone that Woke activists and spineless corporations now determine what Americans are allowed to read?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.1943319838057\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NRY9T9nAfA\">https:\/\/t.co\/NRY9T9nAfA<\/a> just made my book disappear.<\/p>\n<p>Does it bother anyone that Woke activists and spineless corporations now determine what Americans are allowed to read? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dbIbjm96Ll\">https:\/\/t.co\/dbIbjm96Ll<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbigailShrier\/status\/1327056407598809088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Target later announced that the book had been restored on their website for purchasing.<\/p>\n<p>Shrier\u2019s essay on <a href=\"https:\/\/abigailshrier.substack.com\/p\/want-to-save-america-dont-act-like\">Substack<\/a> started by lauding anti-Critical Race Theory activist Chris Rufo as she stated that he is \u201cdoing something so spectacularly unconservative, he may need to update his political affiliation: he\u2019s winning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s become the person we think of whenever \u2018Critical Race Theory\u2019 is mentioned,\u201d she opined. &nbsp;\u201cFor the first time in years, Ibram X. Kendi and Nikole-Hannah Jones face actual pushback to the white-hatred they peddle and division they feast upon. Parents have someone they can turn to for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1413292881264005126\">evidence<\/a>, argument, and reassurance of their marrow-deep sense that the racial essentialism in their kids\u2019 classroom is wrong and that it\u2019s not racist to say so. For the first time in years, the rejection of \u2018Critical Race Theory\u2019 is gaining ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shrier pointed out that Rufo\u2019s success derived from the fact that \u201che speaks not to the elites, but to Americans, and he makes an intelligible argument: \u2018Anti-Racism\u2019 is just racism in progressive clothing; it\u2019s teaching our kids to hate themselves and each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shrier decried the \u201chyper-polite fecklessness on one side of the boat and chest-thumping ignorance on the other,\u201d displayed by many conservatives, citing as feckless Oklahoma GOP Senator James Langford\u2019s passive response when questioning HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra about HHS using the term \u201cbirthing person\u201d instead of \u201cmother.\u201d Langford said, \u201cWe don\u2019t want to offend in our language. I get that. But would you at least admit calling a mom a \u2018birthing person\u2019 could be offensive to some moms?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shrier snapped, \u201cIt\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N18oBWG-iSE\">a clip worth watching<\/a>&nbsp;because it exemplifies decades of Republican failure in culture wars that have seen Leftists wipe the floor with them. \u2026 if this is the best Republicans can muster, they deserve to be trounced over and over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, she suggested asserting, \u201cMothers are not \u2018birthing people,\u2019 and to call us that is a disgrace. To refuse to call us mothers is an abomination, too. Sex-based rights are not yours to give away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if Republicans can\u2019t say that, they should pack up their things; at least they won\u2019t be in the way,\u201d she continued. \u201cThe last thing America needs right now is more wallpaper over cracks. Time to toss out the \u2018Aw Shucks Conservatism\u2019 of navy blazers and boat shoes, the sort that believes matching jammies on Christmas suffices to save a country on the brink. That approach may have excelled when churches and civil society were strong and conservatives needed only to get married, raise a family, and perform the simple heroism of showing up. Today, it\u2019s a loser.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shrier wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"43\">\n<p><em>Its mistake is not in any of the hand-written niceties it revels in, which make life orderly, cozy\u2014even lovely. Its mistake is that it treats Leftist ideologues like quirky out-of-town guests arriving for brunch. It assumes we all want the same things and are equally devoted to the perpetuation of bedrock American commitments: free speech, free exercise of faith, equal protection, rule of law.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But the Woke are not zany guests. They are home-invasion robbers. The structure they intend to leave behind will contain but a handful of the cultural artifacts they encountered. Bringing down statues of Abe Lincoln, books by Dr. Seuss and schools named for the country\u2019s founders? That\u2019s just their casing the joint. The large-scale heist hasn\u2019t even started. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Left wages war every day, in every school system in America and, no doubt, many a summer camp. It knows the stakes are high and it comes prepared to fight. It has an uncomplicated revulsion for Judeo-Christian religion, American traditions, American symbols, our founders, and individual rights. It despises the nuclear family, like good Marxists do\u2014which is the real reason it cannot abide the words \u201cmother\u201d and \u201cfather.\u201d (It understands no one was ever moved to family formation by the dream of becoming a \u201cgestational parent.\u201d) It does not disguise its plan to replace all of these things. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Here, then, is a solution for conservatives: Stop playing the Left\u2019s game of victimhood, stop straining to adopt its lingo. \u2026 Speak as plainly as you can. \u2026 And you must dislodge from your heads the misguided notion that the point of standing up for what\u2019s right is to \u201cOwn the Libs.\u201d If conservatives exploit the Left\u2019s radicalism cynically or naively, if they approach thoughtful and courageous Americans of other political stripes with the defeatist mentality that there is no point trying to win over anyone else, they will lose. Which is a damn shame, because these fights might actually be won. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, author Abigail Shrier, who has been and continues to be attacked by the \u201cwoke\u201d movement for her book \u201cIrreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,\u201d fired back &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}