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

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Yet the success of Black Lives Matter hinges upon the meaning of the movement and the slogan being blurred. Carville makes an important point about woke language but it is a mistake to assume that the problems with woke lie simply in its performance. She started working as a lecturer in Higher Education and Academic Practice at the University of Kent in 2007. Joanna will be known to spiked readers as a prolific author and one of our longest-running and most cherished columnists.

Woke activists see ‘colour-blindness’ and the original goals of the US Civil Rights movement as implicitly racist or aiding racism.But perhaps of more concerns is the impact on debate: free speech is chilled and intellectual conformity is enforced when people fear saying what they truly think.

but I found it just a little bit to "wordy" which meant for me I could not read more than a few pages at a time. In 2014, widespread protests broke out in Ferguson, Missouri following the police killing of Michael Brown. Today’s woke cultural elite has more in common with the century-old establishment the Angry Young Men pushed back against in the 1950s than with the Angry Young Men themselves.Proponents of Critical Theory hold that knowledge is no longer dependent on independently verifiable evidence but is to be obtained by attending to the ‘lived experience’ of members of oppressed groups which can be expressed purely in terms of subjective feelings.

But there was a puzzling spike of 20 per cent in the number of those who did think racism was a problem; a finding that baffled report author, Andrew Markus, seeing as how it conflicted with Scanlon’s findings in all previous years. In a chapter entitled ‘Woke Capitalism’ Williams reveals how the diversity industry with its army of ‘race experts’ benefits corporate elites by removing workers’ agency and solidarity. It’s the elastic definition of woke that has allowed it to shift from aspirational, to insulting and (almost) back again, while its key assumptions quietly gain ground within cultural institutions.Nonetheless, the Census data released in June 2022 shows the highest proportion ever — 50 per cent — of Australians are born, or descended from those born, overseas.

Woke thinking provides those who run national institutions with a moral mission and a sense of purpose underpinned by a commitment to social justice. Some went so far as to suggest that woke had only ever been used by the right as an insult directed at all things progressive. Williams taught at the University of Kent for over 10 years and has extensive experience in think-tanks.By 2018, the Urban Dictionary had a new definition: ‘t he act of being very pretentious about how much you care about a social issue . Through unconscious bias training, anti-racism and diversity training, enculturating staff into woke values permits bosses unprecedented access to and control over not just their employees’ time, but their personal, political and emotional lives too.

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