Woke watch

[arsene york-hunt]

"There is a very good section on GB news where the ludicrous idiocies of Wokeness are looked at I thought we would should have one for WHO. I'll start with Baptiste on BBC: In Hungary,an ambassador's family are kidnapped by Islamic terrorists and carry out atrocities. At the end of the last episode Baptiste finds out that it is a false flag operation and conveniently, the real culprits are white supremacists who want to stop all immigration. Coronation Street ITV a gay black footballer is stopped by the police, because he is driving an expensive car. He is pushed to the ground during an altercation, and damages his leg threatening his career. Could have been written by Dawn Butler or a BLM activist."

[BRANDED]

"Ironically, coloureds seems back in vogue"

[Lee Trundle]

"Leonard Hatred 11:47 Mon Apr 17 ""What happened to ""BAME""? That was the fashionable term for about 3 months but nobody uses it now. Is it RACIST?"" Apparently yes. Most corporate companies (including the one I work for) spend fortunes on training, programming everyone to use BAME, then a year later that term had been retracted. Who knows what the correct term to is use now."

[Hermit Road]

"""Catherine Mealing-Jones, the park’s CEO, told the PA news agency: “Given that we’re trying to provide leadership on decarbonisation, a giant burning brazier is not a good look."" From the Independent. Or as Comma says, 'Telegraph spin'"

[Mike Oxsaw]

I take it then that Becontree and Beaconsfield will both become no-go zones whilst so named?

[Leonard Hatred]

"What happened to ""BAME""? That was the fashionable term for about 3 months but nobody uses it now. Is it RACIST? I"

[,]

"Good luck to the Welsh for giving prominence to the native language name for an area over that of the English language name. The same was done for Snowdonia last year. Unfortunately for the DT they were unable to spin any sort of woke or climate change reference into the Snowdonia change but as luck would have it they have, naturally, been able to make a play this time because of the word Beacon."

[Hermit Road]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/17/brecon-beacons-net-zero-renamed-climate-change/ Outstanding stuff. The National Parks are renaming the Brecon Beacons to some unpronounceable Welsh name because the word Beacon is associated with burning things and that emits carbon which goes against their net zero aims. Whoever came up with this must have been having a laugh at it got taken a bit too seriously. Impressive stuff either way.

[BRANDED]

"Jeeves and Wooster books have been rewritten to remove prose by PG Wodehouse deemed “unacceptable” by publishers, the Telegraph can reveal. Original passages in the comic novels have been purged or reworked for new editions issued by Penguin Random House. Trigger warnings have also been added to revised editions telling would-be Wodehouse readers that his themes and characters may be “outdated”. One warning states that the writer’s prose has been altered because it was judged to be “unacceptable” by Penguin, a publishing house which enlists the services of sensitivity readers. The disclaimer printed on the opening pages of the 2023 reissue of Thank you, Jeeves states: “Please be aware that this book was published in the 1930s and contains language, themes and characterisations which you may find outdated. “In the present edition we have sought to edit, minimally, words that we regard as unacceptable to present-day readers.” Woke Capitalism"

[Mike Oxsaw]

Bud Light - the kink of beers.

[Hermit Road]

"A fake beer being promoted by a fake woman. Moving on, this is mildly amusing in a Steve Bruce kind of way."

[aldgate]

What a world we live in when bud light can self identify as a beer

[gph]

"What the fuck's wrong with trans influencers? The ought to leave Bud Light to the conservatives, as it's utter shit..."

[BRANDED]

"American shoppers are being offered “woke alert” text warnings about products pushing a perceived Left-wing agenda, as part of a conservative backlash to Bud Light’s partnership with a trans influencer. The text notification system is being set up by conservative advocacy group Consumers’ Research in response to widespread Right-wing anger over the light beer brand’s partnership with Dylan Mulvaney a TikTok personality. The controversy has become the latest battle in the culture wars dividing the US, amid fierce debate over trans rights and corporate America’s role in political activism. The service, “Woke Alerts”, will launch next week to combat what it called “woke capitalism” by informing shoppers when a major company might be pushing a liberal agenda."

[Mike Oxsaw]

"Sock & I would never have had golliwog dolls if we hadn't recently mentioned it. ""Golliwog"" is one of a certain number of words that, when mentioned, opens up a portal in the fabric of time and places the ideas in the heads of our parents that a RACIST golliwog doll is exactly the toy we need to aid our development and foster a feeling of integration for all. ""Empire"" is the same, as is ""Slave"". ""Fossil fuel"" gets a mention in dispatches. So, we've simply got to stop mentioning/thinking about these unacceptable historical events and it's, like, they never happened and we can all get on liking other people's breakfasts."

[Fo the Communist]

"Rios's reaction to golliwogs no longer being acceptable: ""Its a shame how these fucktards ruin everything."" Get a grip, mate."

[Mike Oxsaw]

"""Word choices can have many functions apart from direct communication, and an obvious one is to convey the status of the speaker or author"". Never, ever, happens on here - FACT."

[BRANDED]

"On reflection, such confusion was easily predictable — and not just for non-native speakers. The Census asked: “Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?” Even assuming you successfully parsed its off-putting syntax, a number of serious ambiguities remain. Is a “gender” a grammatical category, a synonym for maleness or femaleness, a set of sociocultural meanings, or a psychological identity? According to the Oxford Learner’s Dictionary, it could be any of these. So, whether or not you “identify with” a gender (or, even more clumsily, have a “gender you identify with”) will partly depend on what you think “gender” is. It also partly depends upon what you think “to identify with” means, since this is hardly an everyday term. And then there’s the awkward fact that, if you are an immigrant without a birth certificate, you may not take yourself to have a “sex registered at birth” at all. One might ask why the statisticians at the ONS got this so wrong, given that one of their main jobs is to design survey questions that don’t invite false positives. By the ONS’s own admission, the trans question was trialled by means of “community testing at LGBT History Month events”, which is a bit like gauging atheists’ understanding of the Catholic Mass by means of community testing at the Vatican. Why didn’t those in charge anticipate that a question couched in obscure genderese might stump noninitiates, even if it would please their Stonewall overlords? The most obvious hypothesis would be that the ONS was cajoled, guilt-tripped, befuddled and emotionally blackmailed into linguistic compliance, like many a fellow national institution before it. Maybe so, but a wider explanation is also available: that those who designed the question didn’t even realise it was couched in obscure genderese. They took their own standards of linguistic apprehension to be universal and binding. This is a tendency that extends well beyond transactivism. Word choices can have many functions apart from direct communication, and an obvious one is to convey the status of the speaker or author. Now that many of us spend our days sitting around scrolling emails and timelines, reading snippets and writing things with our thumbs, word choices are one of the main opportunities to socially signal. Slang, jargon, abbreviations and buzzwords are all ways to imply that you’re in a particular crowd. Belonging also requires knowing what words not to use. As social animals, we can’t help but practise what linguistics expert Deborah Cameron calls “verbal hygiene”: trying to purify language of socially problematic word choices. If you’re a well-off Tory, you’ll want to avoid terms such as “toilet”, “lounge” and “settee”. If you’re a well-off Lefty, you’ll want to avoid phrases such as “ladies and gentlemen”, “cancel culture” and “lab leak”. The Right dislikes grammatical solecisms, especially when committed by Angela Rayner; the Left is much more concerned with moral solecisms. Either way, though, it’s at least partly a way of indicating who’s in and who’s out. Many of us practise verbal hygiene simply in order to have an easier life. Some enjoy throwing the rulebook at others as a means of social control. Still more hubristic individuals — usually with PhDs — try to rewrite the rules altogether, inventing new lexical standards out of the blue and then associating any deviance from them with a suspect character. In certain circles, serious disagreement about meaning is cast as linguistic violence, and semantic power grabs are attributed to everyone but oneself. They want to “create divides” ,“police” categories and “colonise” minds and vocabularies. We are simply building a better world from our book-lined offices, one enforced redefinition at a time. https://unherd.com/2023/04/how-the-trans-census-fooled-britain/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups[0]=18743&tl_period_type=3&mc_cid=fd5d71c105&mc_eid=bfcce9fb42"

[BRANDED]

"Last weekend brought surprising news: an unprecedented spike in the number of West Ham fans identifying as trans. According to the 2021 Census, the London borough of Newham has the highest proportion of trans people in England and Wales, coming in at a staggering 1.5%. Meanwhile, the “trans-friendly” city of Brighton and Hove languishes in the rankings at a lowly 20th, a bit like the UK at Eurovision. Marvellous as it is to imagine the Cockney heartlands full of Paris Is Burning re-enactments, a more plausible explanation is that many of those Newhamites answering “yes” to the trans question didn’t understand what they were saying. Newham, after all, has relatively high numbers of immigrants and non-English speakers; and as an investigation by academic Michael Biggs has revealed, the strongest predictor of trans identification within a local authority is the proportion of people whose main language is not English. Once this was pointed out, the Office for National Statistics acknowledged it was “possible” that respondents misinterpreted the question, and confirmed it would investigate the findings."

[BRANDED]

"Last weekend brought surprising news: an unprecedented spike in the number of West Ham fans identifying as trans. According to the 2021 Census, the London borough of Newham has the highest proportion of trans people in England and Wales, coming in at a staggering 1.5%. Meanwhile, the “trans-friendly” city of Brighton and Hove languishes in the rankings at a lowly 20th, a bit like the UK at Eurovision. Marvellous as it is to imagine the Cockney heartlands full of Paris Is Burning re-enactments, a more plausible explanation is that many of those Newhamites answering “yes” to the trans question didn’t understand what they were saying. Newham, after all, has relatively high numbers of immigrants and non-English speakers; and as an investigation by academic Michael Biggs has revealed, the strongest predictor of trans identification within a local authority is the proportion of people whose main language is not English. Once this was pointed out, the Office for National Statistics acknowledged it was “possible” that respondents misinterpreted the question, and confirmed it would investigate the findings."

[The Ghost of Sven]

"Understand Mrs Gollywogs husband is the licensee & he is away at their holiday home at the moment ""Ryley denied that she or her husband were racist. “I’m not a racist in any form.” She confirmed that her husband had been photographed in a T-shirt from the far-right group Britain First. She said: “I don’t think Chris is a supporter of Britain First, he was just wearing that shirt because it was convenient at the time.” HA HA HA HA"

[joe royal]

Looks like some bacon pulled the race card and got trumped: https://amp.lbc.co.uk/news/laughing-at-someone-falling-over-work-not-harassment-judge-rules/

[arsene york-hunt]

MO Golliwog's Cakewalk

[Mike Oxsaw]

"Didn't Debussy have a premonition of this when he wrote the piece ""Golliwogg's Stake Out"" in 1908? Bet he loved (LOVED) marmalade, too. Like Sock, I recall the collecting of Robinson's marmalade labels and sending off for the badges. I also had a golliwog doll when I was young (and am lucky that very fact alone didn't force me into becoming a racist ladyboy when I grew up)."

[riosleftsock]

"Used to love the Robinson's Gollywogs, we used to collect the labels off the jars and send off to get our enamel badges and a cuddly gollywog that was always in my bedroom. Its a shame how these fucktards ruin everything. Everything Woke turns to shit. As a wise man once said."

[ray winstone]

"Used to go to The White Hart in Grays on a Sunday night many years ago to watch a great duo called Mick & Kiwi, fucking immigrant."