@StaceyMonde [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [09]: Anyone remember the days when we watched an advert or program on tv and didn't care about the colour or gender of the actor or actress? @BBC #woke #AllLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatter #itsokaytobewhite [URL redacted]
@StaceyMonde [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [09]: @EmilyThornberry the woman who still wanted to overturn a democratic vote
#BrexitDeal #labourparty #Leftists #woke [URL redacted]
@StaceyMonde [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [09]: If you are not happy with @BorisJohnson and his government then keep it to yourself or take it to the next election, dont take it out on our landmarks. #woke #BorisJohnson #leftists #graffiti [URL redacted]
#PhenomnBrexitSupplementary
#IRLScholarGeorgeLakoff "Consider Brexit, which used the metaphor of 'entering' and 'leaving' the EU. There is a universal metaphor that states are locations in space: you can enter a state, be deep in some state, and come out that state. If you enter a café and then leave the café , you will be in the same location as before you entered. But that need not be true of states of being. But that was the metaphor used with Brexit; Britons believed that after leaving the EU, things would be as before when the entered the EU. They were wrong. Things changed radically while they were in the EU." https://george-lakoff.com/2016/07/23/understanding-trump-2/
#TheoryLinguisticsConceptualMetaphorCMTAddendum Additionally, much of the pro-Brexit campaigning employed a
#MetaphorClosedSystem, where mythology around the
#ToponymEuropeUKEngland_ being an island (and therefore separate and discrete) was leveraged. The "£350 million per week" savings claim is a ket example of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC8qO1nyYoM
@StaceyMonde [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [09]: After the anne boleyn fiasco i wouldnt be surprised if this was the next step #woke #DefundTheBBC #AllLivesMatter #bbc [URL redacted]