War on Woke: Conservative Cultural Campaigning

[isvicthere?]

Also, some people try to be all 'just being rational about it' by going 'But black people are only X% of the propulation so anything else is unrealistic and alienates white people'

When the fact is that people of colour are probably still not altogether overrepresented on telly/in advertising and, even if they are - good. That tends to be what it takes to actually get people to recognise diversity.

The best example of nailing this was Idris Elba. When he played Thor, a lot of white supremacist scumbags in the USA got angry that Thor, a character from Norse mythology, was being represented by a black actor.

Elba said, "When I click my fingers, a magic hammer flies towards me, but me having black skin is the ridiculous bit?"

 

[8ball]

There were a few black Vikings tbf.
And in the MCU, Asgard is in space, not Scandinavia.

Was a weird thing to get wound up about.

 

[LeytonCatLady]

The best example of nailing this was Idris Elba. When he played Thor, a lot of white supremacist scumbags in the USA got angry that Thor, a character from Norse mythology, was being represented by a black actor.

Elba said, "When I click my fingers, a magic hammer flies towards me, but me having black skin is the ridiculous bit?"

Somebody on Twitter was bitching about Disney doing a remake of " The Little Mermaid" with a black Ariel on the grounds that the story was originally written by a Danish person and so it wasn't realistic. Me: "And a singing mermaid who grows legs is? It's a fairytale for kids and you complain about realism!"

 

[tim]

It appears that National Trust scones are woke.

 

[isvicthere?]

It appears that National Trust scones are woke.

Of all the types of "wokeness" I would say "scone wokeness" is probably the worst.

 

[Serge Forward]

All depends on whether they say scone or scone.

 

[existentialist]

All depends on whether they say scone or scone.

"scone" is proper woke

 

[Nine Bob Note]

All depends on whether they say scone or scone.

That was the holy boulder than Longshanks knicked, wasn't it?

 

[8ball]

"scone" is proper woke

Depends on whether there is a shade of irony to it. Otherwise, “scone” is def more woke, especially in London.

 

[Pickman's model]

That was the holy boulder than Longshanks knicked, wasn't it?

Yes he was a knicker

 

[Pickman's model]

All depends on whether they say scone or scone.

Even if they say it right you cam always tell a wrong un by their putting on clotted cream before jam

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Even if they say it right you cam always tell a wrong un by their putting on clotted cream before jam

You have to be careful round our way when you come out with stuff like that.

 

[mojo pixy]

You have to be careful round our way when you come out with stuff like that.

I have to admit, I feel like a proper weirdo when the scones come out and I get sussed for my jam-first blasphemy. At least it doesn't show up on my DBS .. I hope

 

[ouirdeaux]

I don't really like scones. Or jam. Or clotted cream. Is it OK to say that?

 

[mojo pixy]

I don't really like scones. Or jam. Or clotted cream. Is it OK to say that?

Political correctness gone mad

 

[Artaxerxes]

I don't really like scones. Or jam. Or clotted cream. Is it OK to say that?

Banned.

 

[ska invita]

Too much sugar and dairy. High time they were banned and a sugar free lactose free gluten free alternative version enforced by law. Scones are destroying the planet and putting a strain on the NHS. I might send a letter to the Mail

 

[8ball]

Too much sugar and dairy. High time they were banned and a sugar free lactose free gluten free alternative version enforced by law. Scones are destroying the planet and putting a strain on the NHS. I might send a letter to the Mail

Doesn’t that make them an ideal snack for the anti-woke?

 

[Karl Masks]

I don't really like scones. Or jam. Or clotted cream. Is it OK to say that?

To your marxist friends, when disscussing intersectionality and eating vegan food while reading the collected poems of Engels in a building made from sustainable materials nowhere near Mike Graham.

See you Cameron. He makes things out of trees. Brilliant. I don't ever want to speak to any of these people again

 

[LeytonCatLady]

I don't really like scones. Or jam. Or clotted cream. Is it OK to say that?

Ooh, you anti-British traitor, you!

 

[mojo pixy]

Too much sugar and dairy. High time they were banned and a sugar free lactose free gluten free alternative version enforced by law. Scones are destroying the planet and putting a strain on the NHS. I might send a letter to the Mail

Scones on the other hand, are a bastion of what is right and proper, in the face of those who would destroy afternoon snacking and replace it with some kind of woke "street-food" to be consumed in a car park, without regard to the vicious politeness that once made teatime great.

 

[bemused]

Enjoy watching Tory half-wits moaning about police dancing at festivals they are policing.

 

[two sheds]

when they should clearly instead be beating seven kinds out of the festival goers.

 

[bemused]

when they should clearly instead be beating seven kinds out of the festival goers.

I watched some dude from the policing association moan about the Notting Hill festival to be moved/banned because two female officers had been sexually assaulted ( no mention of the poor chap stabbed to death) whilst I have sympathy and empathy for the officers, my initial thoughts were 'aren't the police meant to arrest these sorts of people?'

 

[8ball]

I watched some dude from the policing association moan about the Notting Hill festival to be moved/banned because two female officers had been sexually assaulted ( no mention of the poor chap stabbed to death) whilst I have sympathy and empathy for the officers, my initial thoughts were 'aren't the police meant to arrest these sorts of people?'

They would need to decide exactly what they’re doing there first.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Government appoints anti-‘woke’ activist as V&A trustee

Rightwing commentator Zewditu Gebreyohanes is director of a group waging ‘politicised’ campaign against the National Trust

www.theguardian.com

 

[Artaxerxes]

Apparently deeply embedded in Policy Exchange and like a daughter to Scruton.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I don't really like scones. Or jam. Or clotted cream. Is it OK to say that?

No.

It's scone, then clotted cream, then jam.

 

[tim]

I don't really like scones. Or jam. Or clotted cream. Is it OK to say that?

It is if you want to restore the Trust and wage war on Wokery.

 

[tim]

At the Globe to see "I Joan" the non-binary take on Joan of Arc which was upsetting volk in the Mail and in GBNEWTS a week or so ago.
There were no TERFs, or French fascists picketing, and no scent of an outraged Laurence Fox.

Two hours and fifty minutes, so let's hope it is engrossing.