War on Woke: Conservative Cultural Campaigning

[bemused]

It's a manufactured folk devil. Like "PC gorn maad" before it, and any amount of "you can't say this anymore, but..." bollocks.

I've always assumed it was just PC gone mad recycled.

 

[existentialist]

I've always assumed it was just PC gone mad recycled.

Nah, it was there before PC. I can remember people of my grandparents' generation prefacing appallingly racist remarks with similar appeals to some nebulous agency that meant they weren't able to be racist. Charitably, I assume it to be some sort of long-buried latent conscience, but I could be very wrong there.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

It's a manufactured folk devil. Like "PC gorn maad" before it, and any amount of "you can't say this anymore, but..." bollocks.

There's some of that in there but I think in intent and in effect it's closer to being the latest incarnation of the right wing idea of 'The Will of the People' tbh. That's what gives it a greater range - it can be applied to anything very right wing types don't like, and carries the implication at times that 'the Woke' are borderline traitors, the enemy within etc. I don't think those elements were there with 'PC gone mad' which was more restricted to 'you can't say explicitly racist things without someone calling you a racist' type of stuff. Like a lot of far right stuff it's ridiculous when it's not accompanied by any power but sinister when it is.

 

[xenon]

In a joshing way, my uncle refers to me as the "woke." We might have talked about the Colstone thing,I live in Bristol, and also don't like Johnson, Brexit etc. ... He's a decent guy and we actually get on OK but normally avoid politics at the dinner table...

 

[krtek a houby]

Hopefully the Churchill statue will be next

 

[two sheds]

There'll be calls for the death penalty if anyone pulls that down

 

[Dogsauce]

Have they been brave enough to stick that Thatcher statue up in Grantham yet? They seemed to be dithering last time I heard.

 

[Cloo]

Mail's at it again about how Dept of Health staff are only planning on going 'back to work' (I think they mean 'office') 4 days a month.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Wasn't sure whether to put this on Tory stupidity or here

 

[8ball]

Wasn't sure whether to put this on Tory stupidity or here

They think things are true just because they made it up 5 seconds ago.
There’s a lot of it about these days.

 

[Dogsauce]

They’re probably actually pissed off because the trust has become somewhat less accommodating of dog-slaughtering fox hunts on their land, this is just a stick to beat them with.

 

[not-bono-ever]

 

[ska invita]

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dont forget the threat of those radical catholics

 

[Artaxerxes]

dont forget the threat of those radical catholics

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I think my brain just stalled.

 

[krtek a houby]

dont forget the threat of those radical catholics

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The Pope is woke?

Some sort of joke?

 

[Louis MacNeice]

The Pope is woke?

Some sort of joke?

Not if you are high on coke.
Then saying that the pope is woke
Will seem to be a genius stroke
And mark you out as a top bloke.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[Serge Forward]

The pope is under the yoke of woke
And there's nowt as queer as folk.

 

[krtek a houby]

A woke Pope one could not predict
But it's prob better than the Benedict

 

[Pickman's model]

the pope's awoke, i mean pope francis,
this is no joke - around the vatican he prances
waves his cope around his head
and runs from nurse back to his bed

 

[teqniq]

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Who is this, Sunak?

 

[not-bono-ever]

Griffiths someone or other - MP now head of policy. It’s trumpian

 

[nogojones]

dont forget the threat of those radical catholics

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I look forward to the pope going full Fr. Camilo Torres.

 

[ska invita]

I like the pope
the woke pope smokes dope

 

[DotCommunist]

woke pope soap onna rope

 

[fishfinger]

woke pope soap onna rope

They should have made the rope into a rosary.

 

[strung out]

 

[krtek a houby]

Can a Pontiff ever be woke
Some believe that he can
But beware of the soap
All ropes lead to the Vatican

 

[Idris2002]

I look forward to the pope going full Fr. Camilo Torres.

Word on the street is that Big Frank exclusively eats in the Vatican canteen, so as to avoid poisoners.

 

[petee]

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i'm old enough to get that reference.

 

[mojo pixy]

woke pope soap onna rope

Well then