by Stooo » Wed Sep 15, 2021 6:47 pm
Holly wrote:Avon Barksdale wrote:
Seems being "anti-woke" in the UK is nowhere near as popular as the US.
Who knew?
Is it really that difficult and painful to hear opposing views? FFS, what's the matter with you? Does everyone have to agree with you for you to be happy?
Of course it isn't but you can choose not to which is what people have been doing since the launch of a channel that exists now only to fuel a culture war that hardly anyone wants, it will happily fail now because there's enough bloody division in this country while no doubt whinging about being cancelled which is the new word for unpopular
Talking of new words I've been thinking about the failed insult that is 'woke'. It was applied originally to people who supported the BLM and XR movements as well to parts of Remain but it makes more sense as it's increasingly being used as the new nerd or geek. It now seems to cover people who read books, are educated or use the language correctly, who like classical music/genres that aren't mainstream, who don't watch soaps or support a football team.
That's what's behind your culture wars and the fuel that channels like GBeebies use to encourage division, Pol Pot used it to murder people who wore glasses because they were considered intellectuals, this has the same strength.
It used to be called reverse snobbery.
