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Anti Woke movement grows

Joe Hutch said:
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.
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I'm glad that's cleared up then.
 
ks.234 said:
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Students deciding to remove photo of Queen, is it “simply absurd” as Gavin Williamson has said, or is the case that “patriotism and colonialism are not really separable” as one student has said?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/oxford-students-portrait-queen-remove-common-room-b939503.html
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44 years ago all we had was this.


Still good to see the modern youth have the bit between their teeth, and are coming up with new ways to express their outrage.
 
ks.234 said:
It isn’t trolling to raise questions about our colonial past and the effect that has, and still has, on large sections of our population
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Colonialism, why stop there.
Have you seen what 'we' did during the Crusades ?

Maybe we should hold the Italians accountable for what they did when the Romans invaded.
Or the Danes when the Vikings visited.
 
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Maybe we should hold the Italians accountable for what they did when the Romans invaded.
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Maybe we should STFU, or they'll be billing us...
 
misterdog said:
Colonialism, why stop there.
Have you seen what 'we' did during the Crusades ?

Maybe we should hold the Italians accountable for what they did when the Romans invaded.
Or the Danes when the Vikings visited.
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Look up when ‘we’ finally finished paying off the reparations to former ‘owners’ following the ‘freeing’ of ‘their’ enslaved people.

Then tell us more about how it was all so long ago that it doesn’t matter any more.
 
Dave***t said:
Look up when ‘we’ finally stopped paying off the reparations to former ‘owners’ following the ‘freeing’ of ‘their’ enslaved people.

Then tell us more about how it was all so long ago that it doesn’t matter any more.
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Also look up who those repayments were made to. The fact of the matter is that the beneficiaries of those payments are being kept secret. Anyone with an interest in open democracy might ask why the identity of those receiving regular payments for being slave owners, payments still being paid out only half a dozen years ago, are protected by national security legislation?
 
misterdog said:
Colonialism, why stop there.
Have you seen what 'we' did during the Crusades ?

Maybe we should hold the Italians accountable for what they did when the Romans invaded.
Or the Danes when the Vikings visited.
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We hunted the dinosaurs to extinction too , or at least the bloke Raquel Welsh went out with in her fur bikini days did.
 
Tony L said:
Godwin suspended his own law in the wake of Charlottesville: “By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you” (The Register).
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Thanks Tony. I was trying to find that article. What GB News is doing is encouraging the mindset that lead to Charlottsville, so I think my description of it is entirely justified. Nazism/fascism didn't just happen overnight. It was a toxic drip-feed of bile and hatred, which dehumanises its victims. This is exactly what GB News are doing with their 'war on woke'. It appeals to the ugliest aspects of society and is a potential catalyst to fascism/extremism becoming mainstream.
 
ks.234 said:
After re-watching the excellent Rise of the Nazis yesterday, the parallels between what’s happening now and what happened then are deeply worrying.
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Agreed. I’ve been making that point since the start of the Brexit campaign and the rise of the Tea Party/Trump etc. Ethnic nationalism is what it is. History shows exactly where it leads.
 
Tony L said:
Agreed. I’ve been making that point since the start of the Brexit campaign and the rise of the Tea Party/Trump etc. Ethnic nationalism is what it is. History shows exactly where it leads.
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And the problem is that where it leads is to pogroms, not only of the minorities, but of the supporters and those who campaign for minorities. If you consider yourself at all engaged with minority rights, then consider that you may at some point, become a target for the rabble being roused by our elected government and its enablers. Whom, of course, we will be able to sack via the ballot box just as soon as it suits them to pretend to let us.
 
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