The Wokeness Thread

[Andy_Faber]

the frankly foolish ‘woke’ thread.

Explain?

Wokeness is a thing just like racism is

[ramAnag]

Explain?

Wokeness is a thing just like racism is

Just look back...especially posts 13-27. Been here before...meaningless phrase that somehow those on the right repeatedly get their knickers in a twist about and those on the left find more laudable.

P.S. Me neither, GP...and I don’t even watch it.

[swaledale]

Explain?

Wokeness is a thing just like racism is

Whoever uses the term woke nowadays is perfectly aware that it’s a shortcut into creating outrage. Sadly, there’s money to be made from this as it’s an easy way to generate clicks and engagement online. Take someone like Fox, an actor and singer who became an overnight sensation because he caused such a divisive reaction. Whether people shared the clip of him out of anger or support, they still helped spread his “brand”. As a result, he was invited to loads more appearances, articles were written about him and now he’s firmly in the public eye.

These people know what they’re doing; they know weaponising woke pushes all the wrong buttons in people and only widens their platform. Unfortunately, this is how ‘woke’ has fallen victim to the PR machine.

[Geoff Parkstone]

rare that I say this, but that sounds 100% right, Swale. There's no such thing as bad publicity and if your thrive off it, you will use it. That said I have no clue who this Fox is?