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Yes.
Woke is not an acronym, it just means 'aware' as in more aware of sensitivities or sensibilities. More mindful of delicate or controversial subjects like racism or any other kind of prejudice. More 'awake' to those issues, if you will.

Patronising bulls**t in other words. Fashionable intolerance disguised as purity of heart.
Applying current 'liberal' values to the whole of history and condemning it out of hand. Culture shaming.
Crap like that.
 
lardiman said:
Yes.
Woke is not an acronym, it just means 'aware' as in more aware of sensitivities or sensibilities. More mindful of delicate or controversial subjects like racism or any other kind of prejudice. More 'awake' to those issues, if you will.

Patronising bulls**t in other words. Fashionable intolerance disguised as purity of heart.
Applying current 'liberal' values to the whole of history and condemning it out of hand. Culture shaming.
Crap like that.
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As I thought, a form of invective.
 
The Penguin said:
As I thought, a form of invective.
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Usually veiled in a cloak of wide-eyed reasonableness (how could anyone think differently?)
All dissenters are branded racist etc. and never engaged with again.
Free speech is not respected by the woke generation, who only like a chorus of agreement, bless 'em.
This kind of thing has taken over many Universities, where only the woke side of any argument is listened to anymore.
 
The Penguin said:
As I thought, a form of invective.
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I look on it as a metaphorical badge of honour, worn by those who claim to have seen the light.

It fits in with my view of BLM being the new religion and Inquisition-like in its searches for affront and its obliteration of dissent.
 
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Usually veiled in a cloak of wide-eyed reasonableness (how could anyone think differently?)
All dissenters are branded racist etc. and never engaged with again.
Free speech is not respected by the woke generation, who only like a chorus of agreement, bless 'em.
This kind of thing has taken over many Universities, where only the woke side of any argument is listened to anymore.
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So, the tell-tale signs of a "woke" person are:
Young;
Mix with people who agree with them;
Pretend to be reasonable;
Go around calling other people racist.

That should help me recognise one if I see it, and I will be careful not to dissent, on pain of being obliterated
 
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The Penguin said:
So, the tell-tale signs of a "woke" person are:
Young;
Mix with people who agree with them;
Pretend to be reasonable;
Go around calling other people racist.

That should help me recognise one if I see it, and I will be careful not to dissent, on pain of being obliterated
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That works for me.

Avoid them as you would avoid Moonies and Scientologists.

Treat everyone under 25 with contempt and be pleasantly surprised by the occasional one that dares to be different.
 
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The Penguin said:
So, the tell-tale signs of a "woke" person are:
Young;
Mix with people who agree with them;
Pretend to be reasonable;
Go around calling other people racist.

That should help me recognise one if I see it, and I will be careful not to dissent, on pain of being obliterated
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I think the obliteration is of the dissent rather than the dissenter but sometimes one thing leads to another
 
The Pub Landlord said:
That works for me.

Avoid them as you would avoid Moonies and Scientologists.

Treat everyone under 25 with contempt and be pleasantly surprised by the occasional one that dares to be different.
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Thank goodness my kids are over 25 now, I didn't know about the Wokes when they and their friends were younger. I must devise ways of showing contempt, they'll have to, in Ian Dury's words, "learn to cherish the purity and depth of my disdain".
 
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Thank goodness my kids are over 25 now, I didn't know about the Wokes when they and their friends were younger. I must devise ways of showing contempt, they'll have to, in Ian Dury's words, "learn to cherish the purity and depth of my disdain".
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My grandchildren have already been warned ...
 
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Hence the song "Woke up this morning feeling blue".
Or the one the Charlton fans sing
"Woke up this morning feeling fine
I've got Charlton on my mind"
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A group called "Liberty Lies" has an album out called "It's The Hope That Kills You".

A more fitting title for a Charlton anthem?
 
The EU Drug Regulation Body (unelected, highly paid foreign bureaucrats) are being sniffy about how quickly the U.K. approved it. I have just heard a Biotech scientist beautifully destroy them.

Yet another reason why I am so glad we are getting out of the vile EU in 4 weeks time.

Fcuk them.
 
PS -

The EMA (European quango) has said that due to their extra layers of bureaucracy & red tape, they may not be able to approve the same vaccine until the end of December.

What terrible news for our foreign friends, particularly with the Covid rates still so high in places like Spain.

But another glaring example of how this corrupt club holds its everyday citizens back.
 
 
Here's a BBC News website article that goes into some detail;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/55163730

It seems there is an 'emergency' clause in the EU regulations that allows member countries to approve vaccines on a temporary basis.
Since the UK is still working within EU regulations until 1st January 2021 we had no choice but to use this measure to approve the Pfizer vaccine.
For the next 29 days we do not have the authority to approve the vaccine outside the EU regulations.
That's how I read it anyway.

Practically it will make no difference.
But it's stretching the truth more than a bit (in my view) for Ministers or Politicians to claim The UK approved the vaccine first because of Brexit.
They are plainly implying that we could only approve the vaccine first because of Brexit - which is not true.
 
lardiman said:
Here's a BBC News website article that goes into some detail;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/55163730

It seems there is an 'emergency' clause in the EU regulations that allows member countries to approve vaccines on a temporary basis.
Since the UK is still working within EU regulations until 1st January 2021 we had no choice but to use this measure to approve the Pfizer vaccine.
For the next 29 days we do not have the authority to approve the vaccine outside the EU regulations.
That's how I read it anyway.

Practically it will make no difference.
But it's stretching the truth more than a bit (in my view) for Ministers or Politicians to claim The UK approved the vaccine first because of Brexit.
They are plainly implying that we could only approve the vaccine first because of Brexit - which is not true.
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Pretty much how I read it. On what was a really good piece of news trying to staple on that bit of jingoistic nonsense is sadly just nasty. A bit like Trump trying to claim the vaccine was all down to him.
 
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