#AdvocacyNLTheEdmundBurkeFoundationNCCNatCon
Context: https://nationalconservatism.org/natcon-uk-2023/ #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesSuellaBraverman #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesMichaelGove #MagazineUKTheSpectatorDouglasMurray #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesJacobReesMogg #AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundationKevinRoberts #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPJDVance #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKLeeAndersonAKA30pLee #EDUUKSchoolMichaelaCommunityKatharineBirbalsingh #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesMiriamCates #AdvocacyUSManhattanInstituteForPolicyResearchTheodoreDalrymple #AdvocacyNLTheEdmundBurkeFoundationNCCNatConChristopherDeMuth #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesDavidFrost #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphDanielHannan #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesJohnHayes #AdvocacyNLTheEdmundBurkeFoundationYoramHazony #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesDannyKruger #AdvocacyNLTheEdmundBurkeFoundationJamesOrr #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTimesMelaniePhillips #EDUUSHillsdaleCollegeKirbyCenterMichaelAnton #AdvocacyUKConservativeFriendsOfIndiaAmandeepBhogal #IRLTheologianNigelBiggar #AdvocacyAELegatumInstituteFredDeFossard #OrgUKGovMI6RichardDearlove #MagazineUSTheAmericanConservativeRodDreher #IRLScholarFrankFuredi #IRLWriterHenryGeorge #AdvocacyUKPolicyExchangeDavidGoodhart #IRLScholarMatthewGoodwin #NMUKGBNewsDarrenGrimes #AdvocacyNLTheEdmundBurkeFoundationOfirHaivry #WebsiteUnHerdMaryHarrington #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphSherelleJacobs #IRLWriterAlexKaschuta #IRLScholarEricKaufmann #WebsiteNasareanBenedictKiely #AdvocacyUKTheOtherHalfLoisMcLatchie #MagazineUKTheCriticSebastianMilbank #IRLAuthorSebastianMorello #AdvocacyUKTheOtherHalfLouisePerry #IRLEconomistPhilipPilkington #MagazineUSCompactNinaPower #EDUUKLondonSchoolOfEconomicsAndPoliticalScienceLSEGwythianPrins #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphJulietSamuel #AdvocacyUKNewSocialCovenantUnitNSCUImogenSinclair #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphTimStanley #IRLPresenterDavidStarkey #AdvocacyAELegatumInstituteRadomirTylecote #AdvocacyUKCivitasEmmaWebb #IRLJournalistEdWest #IRLJournalistTobyYoungAKAToadmeister #IRLWriterLauraDodsworth #AdvocacyUKPolicyExchangeZewdituGebreyohanes #MagazineUSTheAmericanConservativeSumantraMaitra #MagazineUKTheCriticChristopherMontgomery #AdvocacyHUDanubeInstituteJohnOSullivan #AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundationAndrewOlivastro #AdvocacyNLTheEdmundBurkeFoundationAnnaWellisz #OrgClassifPPUKIndependencePartyUKIPPeterWhittle #MagazineUKTheCriticMarcusWalke
Supplementary: #TalkbackRadioLBCJamesOBrien [tweet] #PhenomnTerrorismStochastic
#OrgIntlWEFKlausSchwab #LiteralFoodEdibleInsects #PhenomnMaskWearing #LiteralVaccine #OtheringElitesGlobal #OtheringHateAntisemitismCaricatureOctopusTentacles i.e. allusion, which follows similar logic to the #OtheringHateAntisemitismCaricaturePuppetMaster metaphor. #CaricaturistBobMoran
Supplementary: [pdf]
"Woke is anything but inclusive when it comes to freedom of thought and expression. Have you already been excluded as a 'dissident'! WokeCulture wokisme woke not healthy!" #TauntWokeCulture #CatchcryFreedomOfSpeechFreeSpeech
#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPRonDeSantisRDS #AdvocacyUSManhattanInstituteForPolicyResearchChristopherRufo #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT
Context: "In Florida, DeSantis punishes Disney -- by giving it a big tax cut" https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-04-25/florida-desantis-disney-tax-cut #LegislationUSFloridaStopTheWrongsToOurKidsAndEmployeesWOKEAct #BrandDisney #ToponymAmericaNorthUSFloridaOrlando
Supplementary: "Judge Mark Walker of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida issued a permanent injunction, saying the law that bans diversity training in private workplaces 'violates free speech rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.'" https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/violates-free-speech-rights-part-of-florida-gov-ron-desantis-stop-w-o-k-e-act-dies-with-permanent-injunction-by-federal-judge/
#CauseStopFundingHate #NMUKGBNews #IRLJournalistTobyYoungAKAToadmeister #WebsiteTheDailyScepticWillJones "Disruptor current affairs broadcaster GB News continues to suffer under an advertising boycott spearheaded by woke activist organisation Stop Funding Hate as big corporations go along with the bigoted campaign that plays to the prejudices of their staff."
Context: https://stopfundinghate.info/2022/05/07/gb-news-admits-advertiser-boycott-is-having-an-impact/
Addendum: according to it's About page, The Daily Sceptic "includes sceptical articles by disaffected journalists and academics". The site was created by Young as an evolution of his #PhenomnVirusCOVID19 pandemic Lockdown Sceptics site.
"I don't know of any German-speaking leftists who call themselves the Woken. Sensitized to questions of social justice, mindful, alert, that's what leftists learn. Yes and? Conservatives appropriate the term woke in order to reinterpret it to the opposite."
#IRLPoliceNeilBasu #ConspiracyTheoryCabalGroomingGang #PhenomnCulturalFormPhotographyMugshot
Context: i.e. British appropriation of US #OtheringCaricatureSlaveryBrute
#NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMailMarkHookham and #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMailPeterHitchensAKAClarkeMicah https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10300045/Durham-University-lecturers-accused-stoking-left-wing-students-campus-free-speech-furore.html #EDUUKUniversityOfDurham #IRLJournalistTimLuckhurst #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheScotsman #CatchcryFreedomOfSpeechFreeSpeech #TauntLeftThe #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTimesRodLiddle #IRLScholarCarolynSummerbell #IRLScholarSimonForrest #IRLScholarSusanFrenk #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesRobertHalfon #MetaphorSalemWitchTrials #IRLJournalistTobyYoungAKAToadmeister #AdvocacyUKFreeSpeechUnionFSU https://freespeechunion.org/about/ #TauntWokeMob #PhenomnCensorship
Supplementary: https://www.fsu.nz/about: "The Free Speech Union (New Zealand) Incorporated uses the Free Speech Union name and other intellectual property owned by our UK sister group, The Free Speech Union, under licence." i.e. #AdvocacyNZFreeSpeechUnionFSUNZ is a chapter of #AdvocacyUKFreeSpeechUnionFSU
Supposedly: "row ringleader of the student backlash against Rod Liddle's speech at Durham University is a #OrgClassifPPUKLabourJeremyCorbyn supporter who stood for the Labour Party" according to #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMailMichaelPowell
#TalkRADIOMikeGraham #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMailSarahVine
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphMartinDaubney
#TalkbackRadioLBCAndrewPierce
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphFraserNelson
#WebsiteGuidoFawkesPaulStaines
#TalkbackRadioLBCIainDale
#WebsiteNewDiscoursesJamesLindsay
#OrgClassifPPUKConservativesBenBradley
#NMUKRadioTimesTomNewtonDunn
#MagazineUKTheSpectatorJamesDelingpole
#TalkbackRadioLBCNickFerrari
#OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKRichardTice
#NewspaperUKTabloidTheSunKelvinMacKenzie
#NMUKGBNewsDanWootton
#BrandJDWetherspoonTimMartin
#IRLJournalistTobyYoungAKAToadmeister
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTimesIsabelOakeshott
#OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyNigelFarage
#NMUKGBNewsNeilOliver
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTimesRodLiddle
#OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKClaireFox
#NMUKGBNewsDarrenGrimes
#IRLIdeologueStephenYaxleyLennonAKATommyRobinson
#IRLIdeologueKatieHopkins
#WebsiteSpikedBrendanONeillAKABurntOakBoy
#IRLConsultantChloeWestley
#IRLPresenterDavidStarkey
#TalkRADIOJuliaHartleyBrewer
#IRLActorLaurenceFox
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphTomHarwood
Supplementary: #IRLJournalistTobyYoungAKAToadmeister is a member of the #AdvocacyUKCovid19Assembly Advisory Board https://www.covid19assembly.org/who-we-are-2/ And #NewspaperUKBrdshtBylineTimesNafeezAhmed: https://bylinetimes.com/2021/02/02/cambridge-analytica-psychologist-advising-global-covid-19-disinformation-network-linked-to-nigel-farage-and-conservative-party/
#WebsiteRedPillRightsDexterWilliams https://redpillrights.com/false-accuser-feminist-jemma-beale-loses-appeal-to-overturn-conviction-for-making-false-rape-allegations-in-exchange-for-government-compensation-money/ #IRLCriminalJemmaBeale #PowerControlViolationRape #CauseFeminism
Context: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/aug/24/woman-jailed-10-years-false-rape-claims-jemma-beale
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianSteveRose "Like 'politically correct' before it, the word 'woke' has come to connote the opposite of what it means. Technically, going by the Merriam-Webster dictionary's definition, woke means 'aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)', but today we are more likely to see it being used as a stick with which to beat people who aspire to such values, often wielded by those who don't recognise how un-woke they are, or are proud of the fact.
Laurence Fox nailed his colours to the latter mast this weekend, doubling down on his defence of the privileged white male on last week's Question Time to a Sunday Times article under the banner 'Why I won't date 'woke' women'. Toby Young piled in, applauding how Fox was 'terrorising the Wokerati', while the Sun last weekend branded Harry and Meghan 'the oppressive King and Queen of Woke'." https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2020/jan/21/how-the-word-woke-was-weaponised-by-the-right
#PoliticallyCorrectPC
#IRLActorLaurenceFox
#NMUKBBCQTQuestionTime
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTimes
#IRLJournalistTobyYoungAKAToadmeister
#TauntWokerati
#NewspaperUKTabloidTheSun
#IRLFamilyRoyalUKHRHPrinceHarry
#IRLFamilyRoyalUKHRHMeghanMarkle
#IRLDogmatistCheshireViqAKAGoblin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH-WpDOscFA?t=287s #IRLJournalistTobyYoungAKAToadmeister
Context: #BeliefAtheismNew [wikipedia] #IRLScholarRichardDawkins, #AdvocacyUSProjectReasonSamHarris, #IRLScholarChristopherHitchens and #IRLScientistCognitiveDanielDennett, collectively referred to as the "Four Horsemen" of the movement, as well as initally #AdvocacyUSHooverInstitutionAyaanHirsiAli
#WebsiteGuidoFawkes
#IRLAuthorPeterJukes
The Brexit Battalion (Media Corps)
23 June 2016 - 31 January 2020
Dinner, 30 January 2020.
Supplementary: #NewspaperUKOnlineTheLondonEconomicJoeMellor "Back in Jan 2020 a dinner was held at Brown's Hotel in London, organised by Allison Pearson. It seems to have been a splendid evening of champagne and 'uplifting speeches.'" https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/brexit-batalion-blistering-thread-looks-into-exclusive-celebratory-dinner-306778/ #ToponymEuropeUKLondonBrownsHotel
#PhenomnBrexit #2020_BrexitBattalionMediaCorpsDinner as per higher-res version: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Es_oY0zXAAM_lNr.jpg #MagazineUKTheSpectatorKateAndrews [muckrack] [LinkedIn] #IRLDogmatistHughBennett [LinkedIn] #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphRogerBootle #IRLSingerDiaChakravarty #MagazineUKTheSpectatorRossClark #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphJanetDaley https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/janet-daley/ #MagazineCountryLifeTiffanyDaneff https://www.tiffanydaneff.co.uk/ #IRLConsultantAlexDeane #MagazineUKTheSpectatorJamesDelingpole #NMUKGBNewsMichelleDewberry #AdvocacyUKLeaversOfBritainSuzanneEvans #IRLBusinesspersonRoccoForte #IRLJournalistCharlotteGill https://www.thearticle.com/contributor/charlotte-gill #TalkRADIOMikeGraham #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphMadelineGrant #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphLiamHalligan https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyLucyHarris #TalkRADIOJuliaHartleyBrewer #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphTomHarwood https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/tom-harwood/ #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphAllisterHeath https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/allister-heath/ #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMailDanHodges #OrgClassifPPUKLabourKateHoey i.e. #WebsiteDeSmog https://www.desmog.co.uk/kate-hoey #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphChristopherHope https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/christopher-hope/ #WebsiteBrexitCentralJonathanIsaby https://brexitcentral.com/author/jonathan/ #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphSherelleJacobs [muckrack] #AdvocacyUKPoliteiaSheilaLawlor #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTimesDominicLawson https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/dominic-lawson #MagazineUKTheSpectatorJamesLewisohn https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/james-lewisohn #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTimesRodLiddle #IRLPrivateCitizenAliciaLiddle #NewspaperUKTabloidDailyMirrorCaroleMalone https://www.mirror.co.uk/authors/carole-malone/ #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTimesIainMartin https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/iain-martin #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphCharlesMoore https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/25/boris-succeeded-others-failed-accepted-logic-brexit/ #IRLJournalistTimMontgomerie [muckrack] #IRLBusinesspersonHelenaMorrissey #IRLBusinesspersonJonMoynihan https://brexitcentral.com/author/jon-moynihan/ #IRLPrivateCitizenPatriciaMoynihan #MagazineUKTheSpectatorDouglasMurray #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTimesIsabelOakeshott #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphPatrickOFlynn https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/patrick-oflynn/ #NewspaperUKTabloidTheSunTonyParsons #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphAllisonPearson https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/allison-pearson/ #TalkbackRadioLBCAndrewPierce #IRLBusinesspersonOlgaPolizzi #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyAnnunziataReesMogg #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTimesMattRidley #IRLComposerTimRice #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphJulietSamuel https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/juliet-samuel/ #MagazineUKTheSpectatorWilliamShawcross #MagazineUKTheSpectatorHarrietSergeant #IRLReligiousLeaderAlexanderSherbrooke #MagazineUKTheSpectatorLionelShriver #MagazineUKMoneyWeekMerrynWebb #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphTimStanley #WebsiteGuidoFawkesPaulStaines #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKRichardTice #IRLScholarRobertTombs #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphCamillaTominey #WebsiteConservativeHomeMarkWallace #NewspaperUKTabloidTheSunDavidWooding #IRLJournalistTobyYoungAKAToadmeister
#IRLComedianJimDavidson unveiling portrait of
#OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyNigelFarage by
#IRLArtistDanLlywelynHall https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/01/30/nigel-farage-just-unveiled-portrait-jim-davidson-remainers-look/
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTimesRodLiddle
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTimes and
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphAllisonPearson
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphCharlesMoore
#WebsiteTruNewsRickWilkes
[wikipedia]
#OtheringHateAntisemitism e.g. https://www.timesofisrael.com/anti-semitic-media-outlet-trunews-banned-from-youtube-for-hate-speech/
#PhenomnBrexit #2020_BrexitBattalionMediaCorpsDinner as per higher-res version: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Es_oY0zXAAM_lNr.jpg #MagazineUKTheSpectatorKateAndrews [muckrack] [LinkedIn] also previously 'Head of Communications, Research Fellow' at the #AdvocacyUKAdamSmithInstitute - significantly both are considered 'opaque' in terms of the transparency: https://www.transparify.org/#block-yui_3_17_2_1_1542370621837_22607 via [tweet] #IRLDogmatistHughBennett [LinkedIn] #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphRogerBootle #IRLSingerDiaChakravarty #MagazineUKTheSpectatorRossClark #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphJanetDaley https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/janet-daley/ #MagazineCountryLifeTiffanyDaneff https://www.tiffanydaneff.co.uk/ #IRLConsultantAlexDeane #MagazineUKTheSpectatorJamesDelingpole #NMUKGBNewsMichelleDewberry #AdvocacyUKLeaversOfBritainSuzanneEvans #IRLBusinesspersonRoccoForte #IRLJournalistCharlotteGill https://www.thearticle.com/contributor/charlotte-gill #TalkRADIOMikeGraham #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphMadelineGrant #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphLiamHalligan https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyLucyHarris #TalkRADIOJuliaHartleyBrewer #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphTomHarwood https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/tom-harwood/ #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphAllisterHeath https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/allister-heath/ #NewspaperUKTabloidTheDailyMailDanHodges #OrgClassifPPUKLabourKateHoey https://www.desmog.co.uk/kate-hoey #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphChristopherHope https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/christopher-hope/ #WebsiteBrexitCentralJonathanIsaby https://brexitcentral.com/author/jonathan/ #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphSherelleJacobs [muckrack] #AdvocacyUKPoliteiaSheilaLawlor #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTimesDominicLawson https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/dominic-lawson #MagazineUKTheSpectatorJamesLewisohn https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/james-lewisohn #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTimesRodLiddle #IRLPrivateCitizenAliciaLiddle #NewspaperUKTabloidDailyMirrorCaroleMalone https://www.mirror.co.uk/authors/carole-malone/ #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTimesIainMartin https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/iain-martin #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphCharlesMoore https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/25/boris-succeeded-others-failed-accepted-logic-brexit/ #IRLJournalistTimMontgomerie [muckrack] #IRLBusinesspersonHelenaMorrissey #IRLBusinesspersonJonMoynihan https://brexitcentral.com/author/jon-moynihan/ #IRLPrivateCitizenPatriciaMoynihan #MagazineUKTheSpectatorDouglasMurray #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTimesIsabelOakeshott #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphPatrickOFlynn https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/patrick-oflynn/ #NewspaperUKTabloidTheSunTonyParsons #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphAllisonPearson https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/allison-pearson/ #TalkbackRadioLBCAndrewPierce #IRLBusinesspersonOlgaPolizzi #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyAnnunziataReesMogg #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTimesMattRidley #IRLComposerTimRice #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphJulietSamuel https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/juliet-samuel/ #MagazineUKTheSpectatorWilliamShawcross #MagazineUKTheSpectatorHarrietSergeant #IRLReligiousLeaderAlexanderSherbrooke #MagazineUKTheSpectatorLionelShriver #MagazineUKMoneyWeekMerrynWebb #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphTimStanley #WebsiteGuidoFawkesPaulStaines #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKRichardTice #IRLScholarRobertTombs #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphCamillaTominey #WebsiteConservativeHomeMarkWallace #NewspaperUKTabloidTheSunDavidWooding #IRLJournalistTobyYoungAKAToadmeister
#TauntWokerati #CatchcryCancelCulture #MetaphorWitchHunt https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/12/01/cancelling-cancel-culture-rise-and-fall-of-the-wokerati/
Sky News clip hosted by #NMAUSkyNewsAustraliaRowanDean includes inviews with: #OrgClassifPPAUSLiberalPartyOfAustraliaWarrenMundine, #IRLActivistJacintaPrice, #IRLActorLaurenceFox, #IRLDogmatistLaurenSouthern, #IRLScholarPeterRidd and #MagazineUKTheSpectatorDouglasMurray,
#IRLJournalistTobyYoungAKAToadmeister:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3MccCsSuU0 #IRLComedianChrisLilley
Jacinta Price: https://www.cis.org.au/experts/research-scholars/jacinta-nampijinpa-price/
And: Cancelling 'Cancel Culture' (2020): [imdb]
#OtheringOutGroupGangMobLynch
#NMAUSkyNewsAustraliaRowanDean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3MccCsSuU0 #CatchcryCancelCulture #TauntWokerati #MagazineUKTheSpectatorDouglasMurray [muckrack] #IRLActorLaurenceFox #IRLJournalistTobyYoungAKAToadmeister #CatchcryFreedomOfSpeechFreeSpeech #OrgClassifPPAUSLiberalPartyOfAustraliaWarrenMundine #IRLActivistJacintaPrice #IRLDogmatistLaurenSouthern #IRLScholarPeterRidd #TauntWokeMob #OtheringOutGroupGangMobLynch #PhenomnStatueToppling #AdvocacyAUAustralianMarriageForumAMFDavidVanGend
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianSteveRose "Like 'politically correct' before it, the word 'woke' has come to connote the opposite of what it means. Technically, going by the Merriam-Webster dictionary's definition, woke means 'aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)', but today we are more likely to see it being used as a stick with which to beat people who aspire to such values, often wielded by those who don't recognise how un-woke they are, or are proud of the fact ... as [Laurence] Fox and others [e.g. Toby Young] have shown, it is as much to do with the issues of racial and social justice. Criticising 'woke culture' has become a way of claiming victim status for yourself rather than acknowledging that more deserving others hold that status. It has gone from a virtue signal to a dog whistle. The language has been successfully co-opted - but as long as the underlying injustices remain, new words will emerge to describe them." (Steve Rose, 21 January 2020, The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2020/jan/21/how-the-word-woke-was-weaponised-by-the-right #PoliticallyCorrectPC #PhenomnDictionaryMerriamWebster #TheorySociologySocialJustice #IRLActorLaurenceFox #IRLJournalistTobyYoungAKAToadmeister #TauntWokeCulture #CharacterisationWeaknessVictimismVictimMentality #TauntVirtueSignalling #MetaphorDogWhistle #MetaphorWeaponisation
Supplementary: #MagazineNZTheSpinoffAliceNeville [wikipedia] "The term political correctness as we know it emerged in the mid-80s - this Aussie social work lecturer at Victoria University was an early adopter - but didn't enter the mainstream consciousness in New Zealand until the 90s, ascending slowly but surely until it was absolutely everywhere by the turn of the millennium. With Helen Clark's government securing a second term in 2002, the war against PC hit its stride: National's shadow education minister Nick Smith was railing against the 'political correctness gone mad' of kapa haka being recognised in the NCEA, and for the next few years 'PC gone mad' went a bit, well, mad.
According to Hansard, there were 250 mentions of 'politically correct', 139 mentions of 'political correctness' and 82 for 'PC' during parliamentary debates in the 2002-2005 term, which is as far back as online Hansard goes. (It's possible, I concede, that some of those 82 PCs were referencing the family computer.) 'Politically correct nonsense' was a phrase uttered 18 times and 'PC nonsense' 19 times during those three years, mainly, it would seem, by Nick Smith (social workers being required to learn about the Treaty, councils consulting with iwi, kava ceremonies for public servants, resource management reform and changes to the law around guardianship arrangements for kids were just a handful of his targets)." https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/19-05-2025/how-wokeism-cancelled-political-correctness #MetaphorPeriodization1980s #ToponymOceaniaAustralia #EDUNZVictoriaUniversityOfWellington #ToponymOceaniaNewZealand #OrgClassifPPNZNewZealandLabourPartyHelenClark #2002_ #OrgClassifPPNZNewZealandNationalPartyNickSmith #1840_TeTiritiOWaitangi [wikipedia] #IdentityFirstNationsMaoriKinshipWhakapapa [wikipedia] #IdentityFirstNationsMaoriIwi [wikipedia] #OrgNZGovNZQANewZealandQualificationsAuthorityManaTohuMataurangaOAotearoa [wikipedia] #OrgNZGovNZQANationalCertificateOfEducationalAchievementNCEA [wikipedia] #OrgUKGovHansard