8ball
Maximum Facepalm
That’s a pretty significant portion of “everybody” though, tbf.
War on Woke: Conservative Cultural Campaigning
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That’s a pretty significant portion of “everybody” though, tbf.
Not sure if this is the right thread but a perfect illustration of the Streisand Effect. 
but also 
www.theguardian.com
but also
Ex-Tory MP threatens to sue Cambridge University over slavery research
Student says he has been pressured to remove a reference to Antoinette Sandbach, a descendant of a slave merchant
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Not sure if this is the right thread but a perfect illustration of the Streisand Effect.
Ex-Tory MP threatens to sue Cambridge University over slavery research
Student says he has been pressured to remove a reference to Antoinette Sandbach, a descendant of a slave merchant
Yeah I think it's kind of related in that a lot of the culture war stuff does aim to obscure history doesn't it. It's a very minor example but quite illustrative I think - obviously it's not her fault what her ancestors did two hundred years before she was born, despite the fact that she probably sees it as an accusation, but equally it's not just an unrelated coincidence that she happens to be a Tory MP is it? There's a thread of history there that they don't like.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
the real cancel culture.
GarveyLives
Well-Known Member
Not sure if this is the right thread but a perfect illustration of the Streisand Effect.
It certainly appears that some of the politicians who complained about "rewriting and erasing history" and "cancel culture" when statues glorifying traders in enslaved Africans were being pulled down, no longer object to "rewriting and erasing history" and "cancel culture".
(Source: as stated in image)
Having now drawn widespread attention to her own family's involvement in the enslavement of Africans, she now seeks to "apologise" ... to a radio station:
Ex-Tory MP, Antoinette Sandbach, apologises for ancestors’ links to slavery
This appears to be the historic Truth of her own family's involvement in the enslavement of Africans that she wants erased from history.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I’ll tell you what’s damaging trust in the cops. And it’s not sexism, racism, sexual abuse, domestic violence, rape, murder, “locker room culture”, institutional racism, the policing of the miners strike, Orgreave, Hillsborough, Jean Charles de Menezes, Sheku Bayoh, Ian Tomlinson, Harry Stanley, Blair Peach, Toxteth, Brixton, Mangrove 9, sus laws, or any of those things.
It’s Woke Cops.
It’s Woke Cops.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
hasn't she done this bit once already?
googling..
yes here she was in 2022 sept, banging the same drum in the mail.
googling..
yes here she was in 2022 sept, banging the same drum in the mail.
eatmorecheese
He's fallen out of the car again
These nutters are burning their own political base. Quite extraordinary really. Flinging cowpats at a wall and hoping some of them stick.
ska invita
back on the other side
TBF woke policing is a very real ongoing and endemic problem...I mean just look at this! Its brazen. Robert Peel would be turning in his grave....
They should be working not woking
They should be working not woking
ska invita
back on the other side
theres so much of this out there
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
Read that initially as " making Surrey suffer"TBF woke policing is a very real ongoing and endemic problem...I mean just look at this! Its brazen. Robert Peel would be turning in his grave....
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They should be working not woking
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
insert nike slogan here
Cloo
Approved by toads
Just saw an article about public perceptions if brands being 'woke' that polled thousand of people and one question was about what people thought it meant, about a third of people were pretty accurate as to its original meaning, interestingly about 25% saw it as 'affecting to care about issues to look good', which I'd say is virtue signalling rather than wokeness, but Interesting it's perceived that way.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I’d be interested in seeing the questions of that survey, how they were worded and framed. Because there’s a good chance I’d have said companies are “affecting to care about issues to look good”. That’s 100% what Pride month branding is about. For example.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
I think a lot of it is just about the commercial environment that multinational corporations operate in now. Like when they cast Chinese actors in Star Wars - there was the usual shrieking about wokeness but ultimately it's not particularly about that or about virtue signalling, just that there's a big market in China that they want to appeal to and they cast with that in mind.
Yes, my old company used to make a big thing out of Pride. (Photos on the website/LinkedIn and all that.) A friend asked if they were planning on donating to a relevant charity and suggested a few. They were gobsmacked at the prospect of actually putting their money where their mouth was.
(After some pressure, they eventually donated a small sum to a charity helping homeless young gay people but very reluctantly.)
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Not just internationally, but domestically too. Society in general has moved on somewhat. If corporations are being "woke", even if only in a performative manner, then that means they are getting consistent signals from their marketing research indicating that's a good direction to move towards in order to follow the money.
That's what I think these right-wingers moaning about "woke" corporations don't understand. They think corpos are setting the "agenda", when in fact they're just playing catch-up.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Do we need a new Woke Watch thread or will this do for Woke Spoons?
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
Woke or not I hate those balsa spoons. They rasp on the tongue.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Cole sounds like the kind of fuckwit who blames the coffee table for being woke when he bashes his shins on it. Words mean nothing to conservatives.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
“Looks a bit like an ignorant person’s idea of a fanny” is all I’ve gotI don’t get what is woke about the spoon.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Maybe the old ones were made out of whale bones and blood diamonds or something.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Presumably like most offices he has access to a kitchen which has metal spoons in it
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
It is well known that the universe will not allow a spoon to exist in a staff kitchen for more than twenty minutes without producing a tiny black hole to swallow it up forever.
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