Wokeism

[HenrySwanson]

What does it mean to be "woke"

This tweet from a British broadcaster about a campaign to boycott would be advertisers from his yet to be launched news channel made me think what being woke actually is.



If you listen to right leaning individuals then it's everything wrong with the world today and the expression of the worst aspects of the modern left. Listen to those on the left and it's nothing more than its dictionary definition of being against racism/sexism etc and the pushback from people is because of their inherent bigotry.

Where does the truth lie?

 

[Roo]

It's the current buzzword used by people who want to be :censored:ty to people to describe and dismiss those who think people shouldn't be :censored:ty to people.

 

[eran0004]

It means to be aware of social issues, mainly racism.

Racists use it as a derogatory term for people who believe that racism is wrong. The purpose is to appeal to other racists and get their sympathy.

 

[Liquid]

GB News being "cancelled" is the free market in action; a big group of people don't agree with the opinions of the business, the owner and its employee, and are encouraging others to think carefully about it too.

It's laughable. For a start, Andrew Neill, long-term BBC political correspondant and more-than-a-decade Chairmanship of The Spectator, claiming to be doing this to stick it to the media elite. He is the media elite, at least part of it.

 

[Epic B]

Even people who use the phrase "woke" are earnest in whatever they stand for, it often comes off as pretentious sounding to me. I don't have a problem with what the term stands for, I'm just not too big on the term itself.

 

[UKMikey]

It's like we have two political correctness threads now. The victimhood of the privileged seemingly knows no bounds. Perhaps we should make it a hattrick and have a cancel culture thread so people could bemoan the loss of former TalkRadio darling Michael Yeadon's Twitter feed?

 

[Scaff]

This is simply a duplication of the 'Political Correctness' thread with a slight spin on it.

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