How Woke Won: The Elitist Movement That Threatens Democracy, Tolerance and Reason: 1 (None)

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Rather, it is a strange but deeply affecting mash-up of cultural and literary criticism, personal reflection and philosophy. Turning now to the war that is still raging on Europe’s eastern flank, the war that turned the world upside down this year, this long-read by spiked stalwart Frank Furedi – on how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine represents the ‘revenge of history’ – is essential reading, if somehow you missed it the first time around. com again, a ban which included the removal of all 936 reviews I'd posted there over the past 20 years.

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Today, many commentators are eliding this promiscuous public persona with the more serious allegations of criminality made against him. Far from being progressive, woke twists older ideas of racial and sexual equality beyond all recognition. These are the questions at the heart of How Woke Won, Joanna Williams’ brilliant new book, published by spiked in partnership with John Wilkes Publishing. It is therefore instructive to look at support for the main Unionist, nationalist and non-aligned groups of parties.

The prospect of Sinn Féin becoming the largest party in this week’s Northern Ireland Assembly elections is now being reckoned with in the national media, with a full two-page spread in this week’s Sunday Times. It was launched in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, after which the West endured something of an identity crisis and statues were toppled in many cities.

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His standard response to a tournament victory is to say that he played terribly and can’t believe he won. To view social problems through a single lens, whether of whiteness or wokeness, is to distort reality.

Criticising “woke culture” has become a way of claiming victim status for yourself rather than acknowledging that more deserving others hold that status. The second thing critics of woke need is determination to mount a rigorous and persistent defence of free speech. According to the latest report from one of the most reliable barometers of Australian society, the Scanlon Foundation’s Mapping Social Cohesion survey, that segment of the population with racist or xenophobic views is shrinking rapidly. Parents are beginning to push back against the drumming of gender ideology into the heads of infants; female athletes are fighting back to defend the preserve of women-only sporting events; and a few universities are now wakening to the incoherence of their own absurd statements that free speech on campus is best defended by banning free speech altogether. Today, just as it was a century ago, the privately educated are overrepresented in the media, music and arts worlds.