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Things didn't change overnight. How is it that big corporations such as Coca-Cola

genuinely reflect at the altar of wokeness? Why is it that one of those popular characters in one

of the most popular TV shows? Sends out an Instagram post and has to be summarily de-platformed.

Of course, I'm talking about Gina Carano. Where did all of this begin? We must understand the origins

of critical race theory and political correctness out of control. I'm Sebastian Gorka. This is America

first, the man who has done the most. If you're watching a segment, a groundbreaking segment on Fox

News or elsewhere is of course Chris Rufo. Chris Rufo is a writer, filmmaker, director of the

Discovery Institute Center on Wealth and Poverty. Also, he has made a film that, before I knew Chris,

this is the film that changed it for me. America lost. You've got to check it out. We'll give you a

link later. Former Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation at the Claremont Institute as well.

Chris, welcome back to America first. It's great to be with you.

So, let's begin at the beginning. You have to get your terms down before you analyze any issue.

The word that has been banded around for years now is woke. You've got to be woke.

Wokenness. What is being woke, Chris Rufo? Where does it come from?

Yeah, the phrase woke really emerges in the 1960s and 1970s. The idea is that the masses,

whether they're kind of the proletarian class-based masses or minorities and can race-based

masses, have fallen asleep to their own oppression. It was used in the United States this idea that

the United States preaches the values of freedom and equality and liberty. But in reality,

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