The culture war against wokism has been Boris Johnson’s creation and he is being caught out for it.

Did you read the article WWM2? This started in the US pre Trump, with a very very different historical background to the UK. Here in the UK I have to agree it’s a phoney war.

No sorry, I couldn’t find it. But whenever it started, there is no doubt that mad Trump picked up the baton and ran with it.

I’m pleased you agree that it is a false war though.

We all agree racism is bad, we should never use it to cause division and hate.

That link just goes to the magazine Avalon. If I then search on "Most people in Britain don’t Know What a Cultural War is" it says there are 18,349 stories about ... although at this point it neither shows or lists them.

It is an awful website and I am already forming views about the type of article this will be. However, if you can link to the actual article I will read it.

Drat I don’t know how to link it. I googled on my IPad and the article came up “ Most people dinner Britain don’t know what a cultural war is”. I clicked on it and the article came up by Dorian Lynskey on 23rd March 2021 in GQmagazine.

Do see if you can find it as it does give a different perspective to the so called cultural wars.

I’ve not heard of gq magazine before but they seem to have other interesting stories. Anybody know anything about them?

“ most people in” not dinner

GrannyGravy13

Blimey I must let my AC know they are old and uneducated, perhaps they dreamt their A levels and degrees!

Similar story in my family GrannyGravy, but not exactly replicated. Of three children and their spouses, four of them voted leave, two voted remain. All six of them have degrees.

What is this strange conversation about degrees, voting brexit etc on a culture war thread about?

Whitewavemark2

What is this strange conversation about degrees, voting brexit etc on a culture war thread about?

Someone was daft enough to mention the analysis of the Referendum results which found that the less educated and the older voters mostly voted Leave.

This has provoked the usual indignation from posters who interpret that as '100% of Leave voters were old and uneducated'.

It's not like we haven't been over and over this topic time and time again in the last 5 years; or pointed out that 'more' doesn't equal 'all'

The important thing now Maizie, for me anyway, is that these differences haven’t caused any friction in my family.

A classic ( well funny really) case of woke gone wrong.
I was listening to a piece about this play this morning.
It appears that everyone wanted their own piece of wokism in the play so they’ll ended up disappearing up their own back sides. ? www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9798643/McKellens-age-blind-Hamlet-overshadowed-stars-trade-verbal-slings-arrows.html

Indulge me, I’m having problems taking all this in. I’’m struggling to understand this post, especially the title. To be woke means to be aware of social inequality such as racial discrimination. Why would anyone want to be against that? To have a culture war there must be two opposing cultures. So is everyone saying that the UK has a racist, ableist, misogynistic culture and a woke culture, and these two opposing cultures are currently fighting for control of the nation?

Blossoming woke has been hijacked. Originally set up by black peopling us it meant to be aware of social inequality. It has now become absurd in some cases such as banning someone because a relative in the dim and distant past was remotely connected to someone in the slave trade.

Black people in the US

25Avalon

Did you read the article WWM2? This started in the US pre Trump, with a very very different historical background to the UK. Here in the UK I have to agree it’s a phoney war.

It's a shame not to be able to read it Avalon but I think it is fairly well known that this was around before Trump. Like Johnson he tends to put feelers out - or his aids do - and see what is the latest "anger" for his potential voters and then work on it.

Johnson does the same.

25Avalon

Blossoming woke has been hijacked. Originally set up by black peopling us it meant to be aware of social inequality. It has now become absurd in some cases such as banning someone because a relative in the dim and distant past was remotely connected to someone in the slave trade.

Do you think that post might be a might exaggerated and possibly incorrect? I'm sure you know all about Johnson trying to use the ongoing culture war as leverage but this makes me question that.

It is a phoney war. Just wish people could read the article in gq magazine.