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How Woke Won: The Elitist Movement That Threatens Democracy, Tolerance and Reason: 1 (None)

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Here, I trace the ever changing meanings of woke and consider why woke’s leading proponents so readily become illiberal and even authoritarian. This usage speaks not just to the importance of being aware of racial injustice but a more specific need for black people to stay alert to threats and dangers from white people in general and the state in particular. We must conclude the government is cut from the same cloth and there is a seamless relationship between the elected government and the cultural elite.

With both BLM and feminism there is movement between a general sentiment everyone can support and a far more specific agenda. Joanna Williams argues that woke’s moral righteousness and veneer of egalitarianism belies the intolerance and authoritarianism of its leading proponents. It argues that elite condescension towards the working class translates into an illiberal and censorious culture. Other than that, if you’re familiar with the topic, you’ll hear a lot of arguments that have been presented before and stories of why they’re issues.It is easy to cast this obsession with language as simply performative or harking back to an earlier era of political correctness. Woke may not be this elite’s self-descriptor of choice, but woke ideas underpin establishment decision-making and corporate mission statements.

This was a protest song describing an incident from 1931 in which nine black teenagers from Scottsboro, Arkansas, were accused of raping two white women. What this means is a layer of well-educated middle class, ethnic minority professionals are assimilated into the cultural elite. Woke politics soon becomes anti-democratic when policies aimed at curtailing debate are enacted either by private social media companies (banning users or content from Facebook and Twitter) or national governments (introducing hate speech legislation). They profiled ‘ 15 Hot Celebs Who Are Also Woke AF ’ and gave us ‘ The Ultimate Guide to Woke Celebrity Bros . Those who are labelled woke deny being anything of the sort, but almost everyone can readily identify a set of woke concerns and values.Very well written and informative analysis of the woke movement ,it’s insidious progress , and capture of ,first the elite, then the mainstream . By 2018, the Urban Dictionary had a new definition: ‘t he act of being very pretentious about how much you care about a social issue . What’s more, it means expressing these sentiments using a specific vocabulary, familiar only to true anti-racists: ‘people of colour’, ‘Latinx’, ‘BIPOC’. Some, such as ‘diversity’, have always been vacuous concepts, while others, such as inclusion, have been so expanded beyond their original application as to be rendered hollow.

The online Urban Dictionary of street slang had defined ‘woke’ two years earlier as, ‘being aware… knowing what’s going on in the community (related to racism and social injustice).

When criticising the BLM movement leads to accusations of racism, and the charge of racism may end careers and result in social ostracism, it is far better to shut up.

How Woke Won, a new book by Joanna Williams, is a must read for anyone wanting to understand the illiberal and divisive ideas that dominate society today. The sense of virtue that comes from acting on behalf of the disadvantaged and oppressed legitimises a refusal to countenance dissent and a ruthlessness at dealing with those seemingly in opposition to the woke mission.To be seen as woke is either to be praised for being awake to social injustice or derided for Mao-style awareness-raising. Everyone on the planet has their own, unique, ‘lived experience’ so it is not useful for forming generalities. Just like a century ago, today’s elites share a political outlook and is hostile to those with different views.

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