I think this is important - more important than 'bashing' those who pursue the 'anti-woke' message is putting out why it's important. The Tories and the Far Right are relying on splitting people up and blaming problems on 'wokeness' so people won't notice what they're up to. We need the message that these people Do Not Care About You. They are not improving your quality of life, 'wokeness' is not damaging your quality of life - we need a politics that actually understands how people live in this country and that is a politics that is intersectional.
Cloo for prime minister!
There´s many a true word spoken in jest, and I repost this story from the Daily Mash which illustrates your point.....
www.thedailymash.co.uk
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I still don't get it I'm afraid. I think its just another example of the entitled tory attitude of 'I do what I want, you do what I say'
I disagree. Thinking of them as in any way competent is the mistake. They aren't playing 4D chess, they're just selfish, mean-spirited and hypocritical. They represent a particular kind of stupid, entitled, parochial Britishness we all recognise and live among. it's not clever, it's just popular, and it may become less popular over the next couple of years (but I don't expect it to) .. not because they're clever, but because we as a nation have very low expectations so it's not hard for our politicianscand pundits to appear impressive (especially with a client media consumed by 3/4 of the adult population or whatever).
Yes, it's just lies and manipulation. I see no cleverness, just that. Dishonesty and the usual brass neck of the ruling class.
It demonstrates that wokeness isn't necessary for minorities and women to succeed in a true meritocratic society. Or something like that.
This goes back to a Cameron era initiative to get more people of colour into the Conservative party. Cameron was socially liberal for a Conservative - see gay marriage for example - and noticed that there are a lot of people in minority groups who are conservative in attitude, but wouldn't touch the party with a bargepole due to years of explicit bigotry. The party was losing out on natural voters because of their racism. A lot of work went into promoting the party to conservatives in minority groups and those people within the party. Patel and Braverman and the rest are the result. It doesn't mean the racism in the membership has gone away, but they can point to the lack of diversity in the other parties to score political points, plus the visible minority faces serves to show that the Conservative party can be for minority groups, expanding their voter base.
not really - it demonstrates very neatly how flexible this stuff is though: We have a cabinet full of minorities and women because with hard work, sacrifice and a can do attitude, anyone can succeed in the modern Conservative Party! You have a shadow cabinet full of MPs who've been promoted beyond their abilities because of woke affirmative action policies, etc etc.
Exactly. PoC and women succeed in conservatism yes, by their hard work, but also by keeping schtum about any racism or sexism they experience, because they don't want to be one of those whingey victims and anyway you've got to take a joke and have a thick skin in this world. And they know they'd be out on their arse if they acknowledged any prejudice towards them.
