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

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British author Joanna Williams thinks this transformation is so complete that she is provoked to declare woke has triumphed in her important new book, How Woke Won: The Elitist Movement that Threatens Democracy, Tolerance and Reason.

It is not woke to insist that people should be judged by their character rather than the colour of their skin. In this powerful critique, Joanna Williams argues that anyone interested in building a truly free, egalitarian and democratic society needs to tackle wokeness head-on.Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Yet the success of Black Lives Matter hinges upon the meaning of the movement and the slogan being blurred. 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. However, they insist that the problem that needs to be addressed is not so much the individual sort of racism mouthed by bigots. In 1938, the phrase ‘stay woke’ was used by blues musician Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, in a spoken afterword to the song ‘Scottsboro Boys’.

I also really enjoyed when she wrote about how major companies are capitalizing on the woke movement while also mistreating and exploiting workers around the world. 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. Businesses tick over and revenue is generated, some thrive and turn in eye-watering sums, but neither profit nor production seem to offer sufficient justification and money-making is hidden behind woke mission statements and values-laden corporate visions. Following the electoral collapse of the Labour Party, in the UK’s Hartlepool by-election, Labour MP Khalid Mahmood quit Keir Starmer’s frontbench, arguing that the party had lost touch with working class voters and become more concerned with the interests of ‘woke social media warriors’.

In America she has lectured at St Olaf College, North Dakota State University, the University of San Diego and California State University, Fullerton. She has given many guest lectures, most recently speaking at the Universities of Bonn, Cologne, Leiden and the Freie University in Berline. The following is an edited extract from How Woke Won: The Elitist Movement That Threatens Democracy, Tolerance and Reason , the new book by Joanna Williams, published by spiked . As we have seen, to be woke requires far more than simply being aware of racism or being against racism. The term ‘woke’ has been at the centre of many of the fiercest political and cultural debates over recent years.

Very well written and informative analysis of the woke movement ,it’s insidious progress , and capture of ,first the elite, then the mainstream . Similarly, feminist activists are quick to declare that feminism simply means a belief that women and men are equal. More generally, woke ideology overides social class, divides workers according to identity, and allows employers to act as a neutral arbitrer in workplace conflicts.To be woke is to see gender as multiple and fluid and to employ a complex vocabulary that begins with trans- and cis-gender and branches out into nonbinary, agender, pangender, genderqueer, demigirl and so on. It assumes that some are too ignorant, and others too vulnerable, for people to be allowed to control their own lives and shape their nation.