Don Lemon DEFENDS woke culture and says ‘it is being aware of issues that have to do with women’

CNN’s Don Lemon defended wake culture by saying it’s about “being aware of issues affecting women” a month after claiming that presidential candidate Nikki Haley was past her “prime” because she was over 40 .

On Friday’s CNN’s This Morning show, Lemon proved his sensitivity training worked as he changed his tone for women while discussing waking culture.

‘[Woke culture] is about being aware, it’s about being aware of issues related to minorities, the structure of the country, issues related to women, issues related to a marginalized community,” he said.

‘It’s about being aware of the structural injustices in society. It’s about trying to get better, not trying to turn people down.”

While Lemon has shown support for women since the February debacle and called for a female president, he may now be speaking to his haters who tried to get him off the network after his comments about Haley.

Female staffers gave CNN an ultimatum after the comments, telling the media network that “every woman over 50 in America has taken this as a personal affront” and that his vacation should become a “permanent vacation.”

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As the war against Wake continues, Lemon admitted that he chastises his friends who use the word and dissuades them.

“I always tell my friends they use ‘awake,’ and I’m like, ‘Don’t use that word,'” he said on Friday. “There are only certain words … it doesn’t look good.”

The View guest and co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said she doesn’t believe the war on wakefulness will last.

“I don’t think it will be long,” Farah Griffin said. “It works in a Republican primary, but then we have, [in] the nature of our country, something is going to happen that you have to take care of and be alert to social injustice. And then suddenly it becomes fashionable again to wake up.’

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis — who is expected to launch a presidential bid — was among the first to declare war on Wake. ‘

Former President Donald Trump also pledged to “end wakefulness,” as did Haley, who claimed it was a “virus more dangerous than any pandemic.”

“Woke has become — remember that dress where you saw it in blue or white?” continued Farah Griffin, a former Trump adviser. It means something to certain people. There is a Merriam Webster definition of it, which is to be in contact with and care about social justice causes and to be actively involved in them.

“But for the other half of the country – let’s call it that – it means something completely different.” Farrah went on to say it’s an “umbrella term.”

In February, Lemon was briefly taken off the air after saying Haley was too old to run for president.

Although Lemon began his remarks by saying that discussing the merits of age in politics was “the wrong way to go,” he soon went down that road.

“She says people, you know, politicians are suddenly not at their best. Nikki Haley is not in her prime. Sorry, if a woman is in her 20s and 30s and maybe her 40s,” he said.

Harlow cut off Lemon and asked, “What are you talking about?” Prime for what?’ before Lemon insisted as he insisted “I don’t think so.”

‘It depends. It’s like prime. If you look it up. If you google “What is a woman in her prime,” it says 20s, 30s, 40s, he said. ‘I’m not saying I agree. So I think she should be careful about saying that, you know, politicians are in their prime.’

“Are you talking about prime for, say, having kids? Or are you talking prime because you’re president?’ Harlow asked.

“Don’t shoot the messenger, I’m just stating the facts,” Lemon replied. “Google it. Everyone at home, when is a woman in the prime of her life? It says ’20s, ’30s and ’40s.’

“I’m just saying that Nikki Haley should be careful about saying that politics isn’t in her prime, and she should be in her prime when she’s serving. She wouldn’t be in her prime according to Google or whatever it is.’

During the interaction, Lemon directed all of his comments at Harlow, while Collins stayed out of the fight.

The incident is just one of Lemon’s latest startling comments. Weeks earlier, he asked a female co-host who stumbled over her words if she had “mommy brain,” and was recently seen on camera interrupting Collins.

He was forced to undergo sensitivity training following the many problematic comments.

CNN chairman Chris Licht, who criticized Lemon’s comments, sent a memo to staff saying that Lemon had agreed to participate in the training and would be back shortly afterward, according to former host Brian Stelter.