{"id":69220,"date":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secretary-of-state-michael-pompeo-time-to-put-wokeism-to-sleep\/"},"modified":"2021-01-12T08:43:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T13:43:31","slug":"secretary-of-state-michael-pompeo-time-to-put-wokeism-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secretary-of-state-michael-pompeo-time-to-put-wokeism-to-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary of State Michael Pompeo: Time to &#8216;Put Wokeism to Sleep&#8217;"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fsecretary-of-state-michael-pompeo-time-to-put-wokeism-to-sleep%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=69220&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--><h1>Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Censorship: Time to \u2018Put Wokeism to Sleep\u2019<\/h1>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In his opening remarks, Pompeo noted that some employees of VOA, a\u00a0U.S. government-funded international news service, did not want him to speak at the event and called that \u201ccensorial instinct\u201d dangerous.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P1Cy1AJtLpI\" width=\"1280\" height=\"590\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI read that some VOA employees didn\u2019t want me to speak here today. I\u2019m sure it was only a handful. They didn\u2019t want the voice of American diplomacy to be broadcast on the Voice of America. Think about that for just a moment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis kind of censorial instinct is dangerous. It\u2019s morally wrong. Indeed, it\u2019s against your statutory mandate here at VOA. Censorship, wokeness, political correctness. It all points in one direction \u2014 authoritarianism cloaked as moral righteousness,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He then compared it to censorship by Big Tech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimilar to what we\u2019re seeing at Twitter and Facebook and Apple and on too many university campuses today. It\u2019s not who we are. It\u2019s not who we are as Americans. And it\u2019s not what the Voice of America should be. It\u2019s time that we simply put woke-ism to sleep,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Although Pompeo did not explicitly mention it, on Friday Twitter and Facebook moved to permanently ban\u00a0President Donald Trump from using their platforms. Then, on Saturday, Apple dropped Parler from its store and Amazon dropped Parler from using its hosting service.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo has defended the president and the administration, while some Trump administration officials have resigned or criticized the president after some of his supporters broke into the Capitol building and engaged in violence.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and some Republicans are accusing the president of inciting violence at the Capitol and are calling for his resignation, his impeachment, or for his cabinet to invoke the 25th<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his opening remarks, Pompeo noted that some employees of VOA, a\u00a0U.S. government-funded international news service, did not want him to speak at the event and called that \u201ccensorial instinct\u201d dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_video_url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P1Cy1AJtLpI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69220","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=69220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}