Yank
Bulbous Also Tapered
Substance? Like grits?
Oh god he didn't put sugar on it did he?
Anti Woke movement grows
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Oh god he didn't put sugar on it did he?
Yank
Bulbous Also Tapered
OT but that's Ron Tutt. Between him and Jerry Scheff, they really made things move along a bit.
...oh, and James Burton on guitar, too.
Jerry Scheff went on to do some great work with the other Elvis, and with Richard Thompson.
His son was the Pete Cetera replacement in later versions of Chicago, only even more treacly. Guess cool skips generations.
Dave H.
Revolutionary relativist
Hang on, I’m sure I know this one…
Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck…
Nope, sorry it’s gone.
mansr
Objectionist
Chinese democracy?
Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
as in: 'almost completely silent in operation'?
farfromthesun
pfm Member
Gloassary of right wing phrases and their meanings. Big section on "woke".
https://russjackson.medium.com/a-glossary-of-right-wing-terms-and-phrases-3c06b977fb44
https://russjackson.medium.com/a-glossary-of-right-wing-terms-and-phrases-3c06b977fb44
david ellwood
Kirabosi Kognoscente
The thread is dead , please don’t dig it up.
ks.234
Half way to Infinity
The War on the War on Woke continues
Cheese
Bitter lover
Genius.
mansr
Objectionist
It's double-dead now, having been Godwin'd.
Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
We need an update to Godwin’s Law to the effect that it isn’t Godwinning when you’re actually calling out real fascism.
Joe Hutch
Mate of the bloke
Meanwhile:
https://fullfact.org/news/sun-cancel-culture/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content
An article in the Sun, published on 29 June, claims that experts found “cancel culture had exploded in the last year—with 82% of people having first encountered it within the past 12 months.”
The claim is sourced to research carried out by King’s College London’s Policy Institute and Ipsos MORI, which examined public awareness of “culture wars” in the UK.
But this report actually states that only 51% of those surveyed had heard of the term “cancel culture” at all.
Of the different “culture wars terms” (including “being woke”, “white privilege” and “the metropolitan elite”), the report noted that “cancel culture is the newest term as far as the public are concerned”, but still only 65% of the people who had heard of the term said they first heard or read about it in the last year.
Taking both figures into account, around a third of people, not 82%, first encountered the term in the past year.
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, cancel culture is defined as “a way of behaving in a society or group, especially on social media, in which it is common to completely reject and stop supporting someone because they have said or done something that offends you”.
It is possible that the figure of 82% instead relates to the percentage of people who said they’d heard “at least a little” about the term white privilege. This is not linked to a specific time frame, though the research later states that of this 82%, 16% had first heard or read it in the past year.
https://fullfact.org/news/sun-cancel-culture/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content
An article in the Sun, published on 29 June, claims that experts found “cancel culture had exploded in the last year—with 82% of people having first encountered it within the past 12 months.”
The claim is sourced to research carried out by King’s College London’s Policy Institute and Ipsos MORI, which examined public awareness of “culture wars” in the UK.
But this report actually states that only 51% of those surveyed had heard of the term “cancel culture” at all.
Of the different “culture wars terms” (including “being woke”, “white privilege” and “the metropolitan elite”), the report noted that “cancel culture is the newest term as far as the public are concerned”, but still only 65% of the people who had heard of the term said they first heard or read about it in the last year.
Taking both figures into account, around a third of people, not 82%, first encountered the term in the past year.
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, cancel culture is defined as “a way of behaving in a society or group, especially on social media, in which it is common to completely reject and stop supporting someone because they have said or done something that offends you”.
It is possible that the figure of 82% instead relates to the percentage of people who said they’d heard “at least a little” about the term white privilege. This is not linked to a specific time frame, though the research later states that of this 82%, 16% had first heard or read it in the past year.
ks.234
Half way to Infinity
Or perhaps it just shows how successful the War on Woke has been in making Woke real thing that is such a threat to right thinking that it needs declaring war on?
Joe Hutch
Mate of the bloke
Personally I think it's one of those things that makes a lot of noise in the media but which barely impacts on most people's lives, especially in the current climate when most people are more worried about whether they'll still have a job post-Covid. The explicitly anti-woke channel, GBH News, has viewing figures in the low thousands.
Yank
Bulbous Also Tapered
So it's just a more jargon-y way of saying "shunning" - hardly a new concept.
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
Of course it doesn't. Godwin's law specifically refers to Nazism.
People tended not to descend into accusing people of being commies. Much like here where fascism is called out by a few here for anything right of social democrats.
It may have been co-opted for that but it certainly wasn't why it was coined.
"its purpose has always been rhetorical and pedagogical: I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler to think a bit harder about the Holocaust." - Mike Godwin.
If, however, you were being ironic, pse accept my apologies for stating the bleedin' obvious.