Army Gen. Mark Milley pushed back on claims from Republicans that the military is “woke” and as a result not prepared to take on modern threats, saying he’s “not even sure what that word truly means.”

“What I see is a military that’s exceptionally strong. It’s powerful; it’s ready. In fact, our readiness rates, the way we measure readiness, is better now than they’ve been in years,” Milley said in a CNN interview Sunday.

Republican politicians and candidates have blasted the Pentagon for so-called woke policies, pointing to efforts to recruit a diverse group of military service members and be inclusive to transgender soldiers.

Those claims have also headlined efforts to reduce military spending.

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    Everyone knows what the word means, it’s just impossible to define without sounding like a bigot. Because it means “not a bigot.”

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      for me, for example, it means “people who are all over their head with cancel culture”; it also means people [who use the word] are probably a bunch of far right crazies.

      So overall I guess it’s a way to describe the two far ends of the same thing

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        Cancel culture isn’t a thing, or at least it’s not a new thing. People are facing consequences for their actions, as they always have. The difference now is that bigots are facing consequences. Used to be, you’d get cancelled for being gay, or for refusing to sleep with a superior, or for suspicion of being a communist. Powerful people would have to fuck with someone more powerful to have their lives ruined. Now, the powerful people fear the public scrutiny, and viral social media can bring down just about anyone (with notable exceptions proving the rule). So now they’ve given it a name, hoping to make people fear and hate the backlash enough to make people forget why someone has been cancelled.

        It’s bullshit.

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          I wasn’t talking about that, but the weird history shame/cancellation movement

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        I guess you can have your own personal definition, but woke actually means being aware of systemic racial problems and working to correct them.

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          I guess, but it sounds like a very dumb word so I would use it to describe anything good or serious

          To each their own I guess