'Stunning and Brave!': Trevor Noah Swoons over Andy Kaufman in Drag on 'The Daily Show'
Sports cheat celebrated, hooray
One of the more nifty recent developments on the American left is a conversational bubble around the word “woke.” What is “woke”? they ask themselves, pretending no one can answer. (This is also what they have done to the word “woman.”) Former comedian Trevor Noah has provided the perfect answer. Sports cheat and transgender activist Veronica Ivy was welcomed to The Daily Show last night so he could bullshit America about the human rights of women.
What is “woke”? The Daily Show treating Veronica Ivy seriously, instead of a fucking joke, is woke. Take a still image of his appearance and start printing an 8x10 inch glossy photo of it in every dictionary page right across from the definitions of “woke” and “wokeness.”
I am not going to do a point-by-point refutation of this garbage, since it is garbage, and there tons of people with greater academic authority than myself to cover the science of sport. (Never in my life did I ever suspect t…
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