War on Woke: Conservative Cultural Campaigning

[Nine Bob Note]

Do we need a new Woke Watch thread or will this do for Woke Spoons?

 

[danny la rouge]

If anyone can think of a better thread for this let me know. It’s got blues, the Great Depression, an infamous miscarriage of justice, and class.

Lead Belly, the Scottsboro Boys, Staying Woke, and Class

When African-American folk and blues legend, Huddie Ledbetter, known professionally as Lead Belly, recorded a version of his song about the Scottsboro Boys case for the Smithsonian Institute…

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[two sheds]

Love the ending:

Lead Belly knew anti racism and class consciousness were stronger together. So when we take up the magnificent Kathy Burke’s war cry, “I’d rather be woke than an ignorant twat”, we join with Lead Belly in forging that awareness in the fire of class consciousness.

 

[GarveyLives]

Probably about time we had a single thread on this as the conservatives have been making efforts to launch this the last few months and are really stepping up with the assault on heritage bodies and unis rumoured this week.

I don't really know what woke is. What I do know is that every time I see someone declaring war on something (that's not actually a declaration of war as in shooting and dying) its been a total and embarrassing loss. Utterly routed in every regard.

I see no reason why this also won't end the same way.

A detailed research exposé appears here for anyone interested in the subject:

"The British war on woke is an intensive ideological campaign against social justice movements that is mobilising far-right tropes and conspiracy theories within mainstream British political discourse. It sees itself in a battle of good versus evil, reason against the dark forces of pre-modernity, ‘Cultural Marxists’ and a ‘globalist elite’ intent on ruining ‘western civilisation’ and replacing ‘white’ British culture with woke multiculturalism. The authors examine this campaign’s discourses on various digital media including magazines, blogs, news sites and Twitter, and used search engines and a media database to capture a network graph of a community waging its war on woke. Using the graph metric of ‘betweenness centrality’, they isolate and visualise a small densely inter-connected homophily of political actors who share media platforms and cooperate with think-tanks, campaign groups, and ‘educational charities’. Using van Dijk’s concept of the ideological square, they explore the conceptual logics driving this campaign to its extreme positions, often justified on the basis of representing the interests of the British white working class."

An anatomy of the British war on woke (Source: Davies, H. C., & MacRae, S. E. (2023). An anatomy of the British war on woke. Race & Class, 65(2), 3-54)

 

[petee]

handy list of (US) companies which are woke so you won't do business with them this holiday* season.

*see what I did there?

Complete List of Woke Companies (Updated December 2024) - Dave Seminara

A couple years ago, I wrote a piece for The Wall Street Journal lamenting how companies I patronize have turned increasingly political and woke. Many speciously echoed Democratic Party claims that Georgia’s recent voting law is racist without specifying how so. Others have been woke for a...

daveseminara.com

Woke (noun) : a sociopolitical idealogy characterized by the manipulation of noble goals (such as equity, inclusion, social justice, and environmental stewardship) by tyrannical left-wing zealots for the purpose of controlling and destroying American society

1: it's an adjective, akshully
2: even this dingus admits it has noble goals

 

[Storm Fox]

handy list of (US) companies which are woke so you won't do business with them this holiday* season.

*see what I did there?

Complete List of Woke Companies (Updated December 2024) - Dave Seminara

A couple years ago, I wrote a piece for The Wall Street Journal lamenting how companies I patronize have turned increasingly political and woke. Many speciously echoed Democratic Party claims that Georgia’s recent voting law is racist without specifying how so. Others have been woke for a...

daveseminara.com

Woke (noun) : a sociopolitical idealogy characterized by the manipulation of noble goals (such as equity, inclusion, social justice, and environmental stewardship) by tyrannical left-wing zealots for the purpose of controlling and destroying American society

1: it's an adjective, akshully
2: even this dingus admits it has noble goals

I just looked at their list. There are about 450 companies there, including this gem:

Goodreads (please read about how these dirty rotten scoundrels cancelled me and my books here!)

You'd think that if 450 companies, most who are global, and the reason for most of these companies to be 'woke' is making more profits. This person might just have a think to about whether they are right or not.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I suspect "having a think" is a bit woke for them.

 

[Elpenor]

Kemi Badenoch does not dig woke archaeology

Badenoch condemns London plague study after MP calls it ‘woke archaeology’

Equalities minister has written to Museum of London over a study that examined plague victims’ ethnicities

www.theguardian.com

 

[belboid]

Kemi Badenoch does not dig woke archaeology

Badenoch condemns London plague study after MP calls it ‘woke archaeology’

Equalities minister has written to Museum of London over a study that examined plague victims’ ethnicities

www.theguardian.com

"It was the first recorded use of the term “woke archaeology” in more than 200 years of Commons transcripts."

I imagine it was the first recorded use of the term in 20,000 years of human history.

 

[xenon]

Learning things as woke.

 

[pesh]

Sounds like a Brian Eno album.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

"It was the first recorded use of the term “woke archaeology” in more than 200 years of Commons transcripts."

I imagine it is the first recorded use of the term in 20,000 years of human history.

I think you mean 6000 years. Anything else is woke.

 

[Cloo]

Learning things as woke.

How dare archaeologists find out things about the past that we didn't know before?

 

[two sheds]

More woke history why do these people HATE Britain and our many great accomplishments?

Decline of rare UK bat linked to tree felling for British empire’s fleets

Rife deforestation 500 years ago aligns with western barbastelle slump, finds study of bat DNA

www.theguardian.com

Why don't the tories just cut science funding altogether?

Ah they have.

 

[krtek a houby]

Education is woke, ignorance is bliss

 

[SpookyFrank]

Kemi Badenoch does not dig woke archaeology

Badenoch condemns London plague study after MP calls it ‘woke archaeology’

Equalities minister has written to Museum of London over a study that examined plague victims’ ethnicities

www.theguardian.com

These people just have no conception of how ridiculous they are do they.

 

[two sheds]

She must be making her early bid for the leadership but a bit fucking weak.

 

[Elpenor]

She must be making her early bid for the leadership but a bit fucking weak.

Just flexing she knows where the bodies are buried

 

[existentialist]

She must be making her early bid for the leadership but a bit fucking weak.

She's been making her early bid for leadership for quite a while now. Trouble is, people keep not noticing.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

MoD has woke policy says grant shapps and gove

 

[SpookyFrank]

MoD has woke policy says grant shapps and gove

Nothing to do with wokery, everything to do with the army trying to scrounge up migrants to fight for them because nobody else wants to.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Kemi Badenoch does not dig woke archaeology

Badenoch condemns London plague study after MP calls it ‘woke archaeology’

Equalities minister has written to Museum of London over a study that examined plague victims’ ethnicities

www.theguardian.com

Dig. Because archaeology. Only just got that.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Tugenhut wibbled something about "the role of the armed forces is to kill the kings enemies" - pathetic macho posturing - dont think ive ever heard them desctibed in this way. Unless their has been a change in their role and the likes of meghan markle, martin bashir and piers morgan are about to be taken out by the SAS.

 

[Cloo]

Both Express and Telegraph wibbling on about this today:

Note the moving of the Overton window to promote the idea that any mention of social justice-related things (or sustainability, or working from home, or history, or feelings) is 'extremism'. I don't believe for one moment anyone in the MoD or Army is an 'extremist' for social justice and they are talking about things, if you read into it like... maybe the officer rank should be more reflective of the makeup of the armed forces? Call the police! Radical extremism!

I mean, we can, and should, laugh, but it's also fucking sinister. We've seen how in places like Florida that this rhetoric of anything to do with social justice is 'extremism' is being used to shut down things like teaching kids about racism, they are genuinely hoping that they can force people to be ignorant about things in order to shut them up.

 

[Artaxerxes]

The war on woke is overwhelming the armed forces this week.

https://archive.is/49m3Y

Gives me a chance to dust this meme off

 

[8ball]

Tugenhut wibbled something about "the role of the armed forces is to kill the kings enemies" - pathetic macho posturing - dont think ive ever heard them desctibed in this way. Unless their has been a change in their role and the likes of meghan markle, martin bashir and piers morgan are about to be taken out by the SAS.

… not forgetting whatever kind of bum tumour Charlie boy has at the moment..

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

He’s hatching. Like many types of lizards. He can lay his own eggs. Any replication of his genome correctly labeled as cancer.

 

[SpookyFrank]

The war on woke is overwhelming the armed forces this week.

https://archive.is/49m3Y

Gives me a chance to dust this meme off

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Guess Tugendhat must be an enemy of the King then, because his own men shot him when he was in Iraq.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Guess Tugendhat must be an enemy of the King then, because his own men shot him when he was in Iraq.

Bare shits and giggles man.

 

[GarveyLives]

"News reports from multiple media outlets about Wildlife and Countryside Link’s evidence on racism and the countryside have taken comments from an inquiry response to MPs and misrepresented them out of context ...

Wildlife and Countryside Link does not believe the countryside is a racist, colonial, white space - as has been falsely reported by some media outlets - and neither do our members ..."

Source: Wildlife and Countryside Link statement on recent media reporting

Why let that get in the way of yet another bizarre rant?

"We need to stop making white people feel guilty for being white. Critical race theory, white privilege and unconscious bias should be constantly debunked as Left-wing militancy.

Suella Braverman: Calling the countryside racist is ridiculous Left-wing militancy