"Woke" and other Republican bugaboos

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Soames told The Times that claims the charity was trying to distance itself from Churchill were “absolute bollocks”. He said: “I just think this whole thing is so sad and so pathetic. Let me tell you that his family 100 per cent, unequivocally support the work of the fellowship.”

He said that the claims were “so repulsive it makes one despair of our country, really”. His brother, Jeremy, is the charity’s chairman. Soames added: “The Churchill family — I am genuinely speaking for all of them — we unreservedly, wholly admire and respect the astonishingly good work of the Winston Churchill Fellowship. It’s absolutely remarkable, what they do.
Asked about the claim that the charity had removed parts of his grandfather’s biography from the site, he said: “I’m not involved in that. I don’t know. I have seen the site. I think it looks absolutely excellent.

“Apparently anyone who modernises anything or does anything to remotely bring it up to date is ‘woke’. It’s absolute bollocks.”
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Is woke the new whitewash? Discuss.
 

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"Woke" means one thing to the people who coined the usage, and quite another thing to Republicans, and, apparently, Tories.
According to the Urban Dictionary, "stay woke" means to stay aware of social injustices.
To the right wing, "woke" is sort of a catch-all insult, an expression of derision for anyone who hews to the word's original meaning, or does anything else they don't like.
So, pretty much the opposite of whitewash.
 

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Although I was mostly trolling (mostly...), I wasn't looking for definition of woke. From any political side.

The idea being argued is that "airbrushing" - removing or rewriting parts of history to assumedly scrub someone's record (not saying this was done by the Churchill Fellowship ne Trust, I'm just maintaining the argument in situ for discussion purposes) is a "woke" thing to do.

If that's the case, then how exactly is it so?

I mean, from a purely anti-woke perspective, shouldn't the goal of the woke be to maintain but enhance, exaggerate or even lie about the parts of a person's record that show efforts that either help or hinder racial and/or social inequalities?
 

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Boris seems to be losing it... or maybe he is just so petty about having his brexit plans questioned by members of his own party.
Any thought of questioning British, and particularly English, patriotic national icons is guaranteed to generate masses of performative outrage from the Tory press and the Conservative right wing, to which Johnson is always glad to pander. And questioning the myth of Churchill is absolute heresy.

I'm pleased, though, that the Churchill family are having nothing to do with Johnson's nonsense, and have firmly disowned it.
 
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Putting this here because Hunter Biden counts as a Republican bugaboo, IMHO.


And in case anyone has a NYT subscription, here's an article :


The "conservative Twitterati are big mad. Try always come out looking silly, because TFG's spawn is always looking like they want to portray Hunter Biden as.
It pisses me off,though, because it looks like they are trying to push Hunter back into addiction, or worse. Objective : break his dad. Bastards.
 
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Putting this here because Hunter Biden counts as a Republican bugaboo, IMHO.


And in case anyone has a NYT subscription, here's an article :


The "conservative Twitterati are big mad. Try always come out looking silly, because TFG's spawn is always looking like they want to portray Hunter Biden as.
It pisses me off,though, because it looks like they are trying to push Hunter back into addiction, or worse. Objective : break his dad. Bastards.
I really think we need laws against going after the families of elected officials... it is utterly pointless and childish and leads to a lot of slander. One obvious exception would be if the family members are given political positions like Ivanka was. ...but then again, that probably should be outlawed as well.