ARTICLE: Fox: "The tyranny of the woke mob has made me realise how the Nazis came to power"
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Someone hasn't been paying attention.
I try not to ‘hate’ anyone as I don’t think it’s healthy, but I fecking hate that cnut with a passion.
I still don't know the meaning of woke.
It means you are aware if other people’s feelings basically.
To some... to others it means being a smug prick about it and choosing who's feelings are worth more.
It's a fairly weaponised term rendering it perfect for somebody like fox who wants to chip off enough people to fund his ranting
I think it's taken on a wider meaning than what it meant in the 40's and what it means atm. And how people from different persceptives perceive it.
Yes that’s what some would say, in the same way that ‘do gooder’ and ‘liberal’ are bizarrely pejoratives. Oh such insults!
“Choosing who’s feelings are worth more” in regards to “woke” generally means someone’s “freedom of speech” and “civil liberties” being “restricted” when they are asked not to be racist, sexist, classist, ageist, anti-LGBQT+, anti-religion, anti-disability etc etc
In reality nobody’s “freedom of speech” and/or “civil liberties” are being restricted. People are generally free to say what they want and generally do and are often given a national platform to do so. The repercussions of that is other people being critical of their narrow minded positions. Their answer to those people is to throw around the term “woke”. It’s a extremely infantile behaviour.
The ironic thing is that a large majority of these people identify themselves as libertarians and believe that means everyone should be allowed to do and say as they please. Cancel culture is entirely libertarian in nature, it’s the free market deciding what is acceptable and what isn’t.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke
Yeah its basically becoming a trigger word to start a culture war where people rehash the old political correctness debates via social media but with more vitriol and added # ...
It became popularised by black Americans, and peaked on social media in the last decade, as a means to raise awareness on certain issues or as a means of warning against situations or particular people for example.
Since then it's been gentrified and appropriated mostly by the very people who it was intended to warn against, and has lost all original & intended meaning to the point where anyone who still uses it, is probably someone not to take seriously.
The people who would apply the term as an insult would previously have used the word 'dogooder'. Tells you all you need to know about them, that they can only view giving a shit about anything other than yourself and those like you as contemptuous.
It's not just having empathy. They think "woke" means "pretending to have empathy" because none of them can believe that actually caring about something other than yourself is possible.
That's a bit harsh, I mean they really care about those statues of slave traders.
We can’t rewrite history though, even though that’s literally what history is about.
Is he comparing himself to the Nazis? I mean, I appreciate that it saves us a job. But I can't help but feel this is a bit of an own goal.
Me and my wife both work in heritage/museums and their line of reasoning (if you can call it that) pisses us off no end. "They're trying to erase our history!" No, we're trying to tell you more about it, so people understand the reality of it, it's just that you don't like how it diverges from your personal ideal of history.
I’ve often found people who use that argument don’t have a clue about history anyway. Keep up the good work!
I learned more about Edward Colston and the British slave trade after that statue came down than I'd ever done before it, and I used to walk past the statue on a daily basis to go to work
I went to Bristol back in 2019 and walked past the statue, and down the streets named after him and knew nothing about him. Now I know he was one of those good, Christian men who had no qualms about enriching himself by destroying the lives of others. The people who threw it in the river taught me that lesson, not a cast iron plaque.I learned more about Edward Colston and the British slave trade after that statue came down than I'd ever done before it, and I used to walk past the statue on a daily basis to go to work
I dont know but being called a white privileged male on question time is excatly how Nazi Germany started.
The irony of this piece being printed in the Daily Mail, who were famously supportive of Nazi Germany is seemingly lost on Fox.
Watching him on question time, the first time, I thought 'heh, ok some points have a bit of validity'. Rewatched, read a little about him, saw some tweets and opinions down the years. Realized he's just a cnut. I feel a bit stupid for not seeing it initially to be fair.
To be fair, he's become more entrenched and extreme as he's realised it's a great way to be seen and get money.
Thanks.
You only have to look at the kind of people who use the term. I recently watched an interview with Josh Hawley and he must have used it at least 5 times.
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These people who compare the woke left to the rise of Nazi's tend to be at best hard right, at worst far right. How many mass shootings have been carried out by right wing nuts compared to the woke left? Yet its not their ideology we should be worried about?
Kinda feel that as someone who was talking about the Nazis the other day he'd remember that his liberty was fought for, rather than a hand out from God.
Isn't there grounds to arrest him for wantonly breaking law? Or at least give him a heavy fine?
He's entering SelfAwarewolves territory. The Nazis largely came to power by fearmongering about the left's "anti-Western", "anti-Christian", "anti-family" stances - so he's not entirely wrong.
Talentless cnut who is desperate to stay relevant. Despise him.
@nimic isn’t that bad.
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That Darren Grimes cnut reminds me so much of Ralph Reed.
Anything to start splitting the tory vote please
He’s a County Durham ‘lad’ don’t forget
Is that a Winston Churchill picture with a cloth over his mouth on the bus? He looks like a boss from Dark Souls
Grimes' new profile pic is a spitting image of Woody from Toy Story.
Free London from what exactly ?