How the word ‘woke’ was weaponised by the right

Like “politically correct” before it, the word “woke” has come to connote the opposite of what it means. Technically, going by the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s definition, woke means “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues ”, but today we are more likely to see it being used as a stick with which to beat people who aspire to such values, often wielded by those who don’t recognise how un-woke they are, or are proud of the fact.

What a facile, ill-informed article. Remember when you used to do journalism?

It's woek

Please. Anyone normal in the center is also criticizing 'woke.' Woke is not progressive. Woke is superficial, often corporate aponsored, and used to attack and hurt others who don't fall in line with a single narrative.

No, you idiots weaponise the word woke, like a METAPHORICAL person that points A METAPHORICAL gun to their head. You are the architects of BREXIT and of the Tory landslide. We salute you. Thanks, signed 17.4 million not 'woke' patriots.

up to your usual standards, Guardian - pure drivel

Hahahahahahahahaha. No. Stop.

A bit rich of Guardian to complain about changing the meaning of ‘woke’, when throughout its history it has enthusiastically lent itself to the deliberate confusion of language for political purposes as recommended by the Fabian Society, Lenin & other socialist luminaries!

Now that a huge majority has somewhat stunted the media's influence, it's ultimately left with clickbait.

“Everyone’s a fascist but us!!” May as well be the headline. A paper written by morons for the self righteous social warrior. Who lives on another planet.

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so 1984 seriously 😆 Thought Police

I’ve never heard it in any other way than an insult for at least 2 years

This is so woke! I'm fuckin outwoked by this wokest of wokin insight... ENLIGHTENED! .... good grief people

Yes, 'wokeness' has a reasonably good beginning. So do a lot of things. You should be a bit more holistic and also include all the important details as to WHY 'the right weaponized the words'. Partisans always weaponize the beliefs/words of their opponent.

antifa is the poster child for woke culture.

Did they 'pounce' on it too?

How the tables were turned on the left who weaponise everything from the NHS to Ethnicity.

The right didnt make 'woke' leftists behave in such a way that is worthy of mockery. They did that on their own

'Woke' has always been a working class black phrase, for being aware of civil rights. People who want to mock it, have to pretend it's a posh, white thing, to avoid looking as racist as some of them are.

Short answer: People with silly ideas used a silly word do identify silly ideas/people who hold those ideas. People who thout it's all silly said, 'Right-o, we'll go along with that'.

🙄🙄🙄🙄

BaahHa

Truthful Headline: “How the right used our word against us and we don’t like it”

This will lead to the Great Boogaloo

If “woke” went from “virtue signal” to “dog whistle”, steverose7 , doesn’t that validate the use of the word as a complaint about “cultural elitism”? It’s fair to complain about virtue signaling, but it’s also a dog whistle for racism to do so? I’m not (1/2)

The Grauniad used to be decent broadsheet Now it's just digital bog roll

jtLOL The Woke Militant are the absolute worst.

Nice ratio here fake news

Just make 'woke' another one of those words that only SOME people are allowed to use and anyone else who uses it is a [insert woke insult here, i.e., sexist, racist, fascist, etc.] 💡

Complete nonsense. The word “woke” has always been derogatory because, it is dripping in sarcasm and irony in it’s use. As for PC, it may have started as a laudable idea but, it backfired massively in it’s application.

We didn’t turn it into a weapon the left did. We merely laugh at the people who look in the mirror, pat themselves on the back & see themselves as superior to others b/c they think they’re “woke”.

jtLOL I think they weaponized themselves by making up stupid words like Latinx.

Guys. Woke is a weapon against free thinkers. It was already weaponised. By the likes of toilet paper like you. Get real.

Maybe leftists are just wrong?

I see your 'woke' and raise you 'gammon'

Your mom is woke.

Weaponised 😂😂😂 always with the hyperbolic nonsense and victim agenda.

Oh no the right! Not them! Bugger off Guardian.

Dear god, stop it. You created this, it was being used by the left and the right made fun of it, I despise you both for using incorrect grammar. Terms like ‘weaponised’ - articles telling women to date short men to bring down the patriarchy. Try ridicule instead of scolding.

steverose1 is denouncing people having an opinion and by doing so is actively encouraging readers to shut them down.

Hahahahahahahhahahahaaa

I'm a leftie and I'm sick of the sanctimonious 'Woke' movement and authoritarian narcissists with made up pronouns.

Lol. The same people that call us Nazis, racists and gammon are taking exception to the word 'woke'

Just cos most of us don’t agree with your world view you think there must be some sinister agenda at work All LozzaFox is saying is not to judge everyone by race. MLK would be ashamed of you!

Woke is all a bit wank really

Always the right wing. The left liberals already weaponised it to beat down anyone who disagrees with their ideas. The current younger generations didn’t invent kindness and concern any more than my generation invented the orgasm!

Does this rag ever print anything newsworthy?

Woke = feebleminded easily indoctrinated middle class Champagne socialists and their offspring 🥂🍾 cheers 👇🏻🎉🤣

The left chose the word then used it to claim special status & knowledge. They are actually the most somnimbulent people in society. 'Woke' people run from reality, even cover up & deny reality while promoting ideas proven wrong for 100 years. They are intellectual zombies.

Now do ‘alt-right’

It’s awful, if you can’t look at someone’s gender, sexuality and race and make a judgement on them purely on that basis.... what kind of tolerant society is it? 🤔

Does anyone actually pay for this drivel other than a few ‘woke’ wankers Asking for a friend 😉

Stunning and brave

Absolutely no self awareness

How the word “journalism” was weaponozed by the Guardian.

How the words Nazi, the right, misogyny, racism, -phobia were weaponised by Woke

Grauniad: “how dare you use *our* propaganda tactics against us!”

And what happened to 'Black lives matter' ....... thank god they fizzled out !

I look forward to your follow-up piece, 'How the word 'Nazi' was weaponised by the left'.

WOKE was and still is a left wing liberal weapon...... and we're all sick of it.

More PC bandwagon crap.

The guardian as usual takes no responsibility, no surprise there then.

How the left weaponized fear and ignorance.

The right? we are close to a point of no return. All common sense will be lost. What is happening to us.

People who are prepared to white & mansplain racism and inequality to black women. A good advert for being woke.

martincockshaw

Oh sod off....

After calling everyone Gammon during the last year, the wokes are upset about being called woke, Pmsl.

Or ‘How the left wing media also profits from these irrelevant bores’ 🙄 Without hoards of outraged lefties clicking and sharing the unoriginal bollocks they vomit, they just have a few endangered old men nodding and saying ‘Yeah! He really told them’ 🛌 😴

Here comes the guardian with yet another: ‘how you’re a far right fascist’ article.

I think you'll find Urban Dictionary has the correct meaning nowadays

The only woke is you. If you continue to silencing anyone else just because there opinions are better than you then you deserved to be woken.

I'm so glad I unistalled the guardian app. Its hard to tell if it's real or parody these days

Does anyone remember the good old days when The was a newspaper?

Echt-left people have been using the word for a while now. There is a legitimate 'conservative' case against neoliberal progressivism as well.

I've just had to google the word 'woke' Does that now make me far right?

Better than 'Racist' as per the left !

This is silly 😂😂

Grow up ffs. You’ve become an embarrassment Guardian.

As opposed to “the wrong”.

Don’t be silly. Woke is the weaponisation of victimhood. It’s not a right left thing, it’s about the extend one is willing to blame others for there own personal outcomes.

Put another way - the woke left feels criticism should not be allowed.

Can say the same thing about the left. How the left has weaponized words like: Racist White supremacist etc. To attack, label & slander those with whom they differ from.

This rag gets more pointless by the day

It's terrible isn't it. No, it's FABULOUS.

And “progressive” is the go to description for everything the left espouse.

Liberals at Guardian seeking to cast themselves as victims.....GTFO

This is the year everything “woke” falls apart!!!

The daily communist reaffirming the directives for its comrades!

Ha ha ha, it weaponized itself fools 🙄🥂

They have weaponized the word virtue too, how can you be so aggressive to someone showing virtues? Anyone who says anything remotely compassionate about someone else is dismissed as a virtue signalling woke snowflake. That might be why there is such a nasty feeling in the UK.

The right didn’t ‘weaponise’ it. They merely just pointed out how stupid the idea was and rest was organic.

flowesaunders68 WOKE: What we do after sleep.

Just like “racist “ and “white privilege “ has been weaponised by the far left .

Jeez, the left start describing themselves a 'woke' the non 'woke' describe the 'woke' as 'woke' so now we have the 'woke' complaining about the nin 'woke' calling them 'woke' 🤣🤣🤣

Give me strength no wonder nobody reads this leftie comic

Nothing to do with the 'right' and everything about being fed up of snowflake leftie luvvies preaching to the majority and shouting down any alternative opinions. Finally the majority are fighting back and the left don't like it!

My goodness you do spout rubbish beyond compare

I love the way that the Guardian, and lefties in general, chuck these descriptors around with gay abandon, then whine like babies when they blow up in their faces...

Highly amusing, perhaps you could reference the cheapening of words including 'fascist' 'N**I' by the left who have no true understanding nor experience of the story behind their generic insults which appear trendy to them.

You mean 'how the Left campaigned over ridiculous issues using the word woke and anyone with common sense mocked them for it'

A word dreamed up by the alt-left to mask their own racism.

That only because the right raided the arsenal of the left.

More like the left. It’s thy be usual U.K. thing. Lefty snowflakes and activists push the silent majority to the point where just have push back and put them in their place. Ta da. Now back in your box.

Total bollox ! Just had enough if snowflakes ramming their version of life and their views down my throat

Normal peoples patience has now been tried , we’ve been ‘woken up’ so to speak ..

Libs sure can dish it out but can’t take it

Seems more a 'pounce' thing as how to view outgroups' usage of woke, since those who ARE woke have been assaultive on 'bout everyone not of their ilk since they began to popularly ident themselves so. When a new word pops up, they'll still be outrageously assaultive lefty jerks.

How the term 'right' was weaponised by the radicals.

'Why it's unfair for right-wing Nazi gammon to use labels.' By the Guardian wokesperson on current affairs.

Always bloody moaning about something and nothing, usually nothing.

Go back to sleep. Please.

Perhaps the main problem here for the Guardian is that only white people can be 'woke' or 'unwoke'. This does not match the world we inhabit, so most of us (white and non-white folk) get annoyed. White Christians are fair game for woke attack, Muslims (of any colour) are not.

It's 'weaponised' because of the utter weapons who use it.

So, the woke wonk was shot down with his/her own weapon? Aww...

What a load of total BS. I wouldn’t expect anything less from the Guardian.

'Criticising “woke culture” has become a way of claiming victim status for yourself rather than acknowledging that more deserving others hold that status.' And there we have the problem. People *wanting* to be a victim! When did people start aspiring to victimhood?

Whatever you call the lecturing left they will be offended.

Oh ffs guardian.

The Guardian? Where the journos are wealthy hypocrites. Just can't take this lot seriously.

You can see the next woke issue, why aren’t there more parking spaces for people with disabled pets!!!! White privilege makes you discriminate against this huge part of society! Comical but you can hear them saying it.

The Guardian is not how most people think. No wonder noone is buying it anymore except radical woke lefties.

We use the word 'weaponized' for all the words the Left has weaponized Duh and It's Red Pilled here not Woke!

_ayushure_

SJWs on Monday = 'YOU HAVE WHITE PRIVILEGE, YOU BAD WHITE PEOPLE' SJWs on Tues = 'YOU HAVE WHITE PRIVILEGE, YOU BAD WHITE PEOPLE' SJWs on Wed = 'YOU HAVE WHITE PRIVILEGE, YOU BAD WHITE PEOPLE' SJWs on Thu = 'YOU....and so on Yeah people wonder why we are getting sick of wokeness

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Woke AutisticScreaming Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Guardian woke drivel as usual.....

Or rather, being woke is one of the most universally despised trends in recent years by nearly everyone. Not just folk on the right.

Dear God how has fallen.

Go outside your bubble

Most of this woke mostly white liberals think of themselves as white saviors and look down upon every us non whites as someone who needs to cling to them for protection

It’s a proxy for identity politics.

The word “woke” was destined to turn against the woke. In fact, almost anything the woke do and say will turn against the woke.

The 'woke' caused the word to become accurate through their public behavior: outrage on behalf of others (victim stealing) and destroying people for made-up offenses (like running a taco stand). Note the extra hypocrisy: you use a word to make us look bad, you ALT-RIGHT NAZIS!

'The term is meant to denote an attentiveness to important issues' 🤣

Boo hoo

ANTIwokeComedy to get UN-woke. TitaniaMcGrath

Damn that's funny. 'woke' was some stupid sh*t that deserved as much mockery as we could pile on top of it.

I am so sorry this is happening to you

Kinda like 'fake news' and pretty much any other time the left thinks they're being clever. Remember the time the left got duped into thinking milk was racist? Along with the okay hand sign? And Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo? You guys just don't learn... 🤣

This is the dumbest article ever.

The right? The woke left are nothing but a bunch of entitled losers who despise their cultures and freedoms and wish to curtail freedoms and imitative in a bid to virtue signal to like minded fascist apologists. The guardian is a rag.

Because “woke” people are idiots and assholes. You just don’t like being called out.

Only a wokemonster would whine about their 🐂💩 getting called out

go woke loose braincells

It became an weaponized when all woke people turned out to be moronic asshats.

So woke bro

You could say they pounced.

Have a cry

Alternate headline: How The Left Uses Language To Silence Critics. Seriously, the “right” doesn’t have to weaponize anything when the Guardian beclowns itself on such a regular basis.

Total BS

Woke is a signal of someone who practices identity politics which is Fascist.

Ah haha go on, just stop, please.. you're killing me 😆

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How about the word, “racist” and by the Left?

We on the Right never weaponized the word.. We just do what we always do: give the Progressive Left as much exposure as we can and let normal people see how batshut crazy you are in your own words.

Hopefully Toby Young never becomes 'woke', I'm particularly thinking of if he was in a coma

Aids

As usual, the Guardian gets right and left mixed up.

'woke' doesn't now mean seeing injustice in inequality. We'd all call ourselves woke if that were the case. It means looking at the beautiful Lake District and thinking 'that's racist'.

Snopes- “The Guardian”-One of the funniest parody accounts on Twitter.

Well, they're insecure about their ignorance, so they needed to tell themselves that they're the ones who are woke.

Yeah, that's it. The screeching of the wokescolds had nothing to do with it.

Woke AF

The word “woke” was overused by pretentious jerks, just like the words “triggered” and “gaslighting” and “abuse”, and that caused people all across the political spectrum to take those words less seriously.

What is WOKE the abbreviation of.

Who knew constantly harping on about how well you think of yourself could backfire.

How the word 'woke' was ruined by left wing zealots.

Using the term woke hasn’t become a way of claiming victim status. It remains a way of registering boredom at virtue signalling. But nice try Steve

When the left have fear of a meme you know that they have nothing to do but try to censor other person.

Ironic that you don’t even understand your role in ruining words. Stop the hypocrisy and bias. Words aren’t weapons you cry babies.

LOL

The left weaponized the word woke. It was the right who disarmed them.

I am so sorry this is happening to you.

This article is “woke”

Remember when the guardian was not fake news? Yah...me neither.

Usual rubbish.

Hey labour and guardian We are top of the league Singing we are top of the league

Woke culture obviates the need to refute someone's ideas by instead denying their right to have ideas.

The Left has managed to do that on their own

I hear a lot of wokeness from the right.

Woke is a mask worn by the left to pretend they are ethical

how the words racists nazis and hitler are meaningless now because they were weaponized by and the like.

Or how the 'woke' shot themselves with their own gun?

Ok enough !! Change Woke to Joke

It became weaponized the minute people began using it unironically. It’s always made me cringe.

Says the bastion mouthpiece of woke woketards...

Grooming gangs... The police... Rochdale... Ignored Rotherham...Ignored Telford...Ignored Likewise in many other towns/cities... Please like/Retweet...

Lol. The word 'woke' was appropriated by white leftists (of course) from black culture. Their views have gotten so extreme and ridiculous that they invite mockery. Which the right was happy to provide.

How the word ‘Nazi’ was weaponised by the left

Idiots! ☝🏼

We seem to be losing a lot of words to the alt right. Or is the left the problem.

Bless you for hiring the slow-witted

No, woke is also used by the center left to describe thr far left.

I love this complaining about people using a name yet the left are good at throwing around words like Hammond. My suggestion stop trying to control every atom in the world and treat others how you wish to be treated. So much better than name calling or controlling others.

No, the left pretty much took care of that one, too.

1. Woke like PC before weaponised by Left v non-Left Fashionable attack-word to pre-judge+other any not espousing 'Liberal' values If don’t agree 'meaning' of woke aren’t Detractors reject it as signifier of pretentious bullying by PC cultural elite LozzaFox toadmeister

“You turned WOKE against me!”

😴 Leftists chasing their own tails as usual.

Most of us on this platform care about our family, our community and want a peaceful and civilised society. What the left have become, is an intolerant extremist movement that is obsessed with class, race and gender. This is WOKE culture! Another way is needed now to keep moving

Woke, as I’m brainwashed by media and academia. White lab coat syndrome.

We are constrained in many ways to seek brevity in our communications, frequently at the cost of exactitude & clarity but in all fairness the use of the unlovely word 'woke' is as good a form of shorthand as any to describe a typical, sanctimonious, hypocritical Guardian writer

Or maybe woke people bought this own themsevles

😂😂😂 You just can't help but to embarrass yourself every single day. I remember when the Paper printed actual factual mews.

This paper used to be worth reading once upon a time, a good center left honest paper. Now this rag sees me as a goose stepping card carrying Nazi, for not agreeing with ideals so far to the left even Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong would think they're a bit too much.

Every dumb thing the left does and says can and SHOULD be weaponised by the right.

You wielded it as a weapon, and it has been pried from your grasp. Do better.

Yep sure thing

About time. It's not the 'right' though. A lot of us are fed up with the virtue signalling woke nonsense. lozzafox PiersMorgan

Absolutely the most profound thing about Brexit is the waking up of the British people who have been absolutely asleep and pushed under for most of the last four decades. This has been outrageous and you bet this generation will be awake for the next forty years.

Guardian has no clue

...as well as being completely rubbish and insane.

A few of the words the left weaponizes: male female mensuration masculinity undocumented worker white nationalist racism gun violence domestic terrorism global warming climate change capitalism American Patriot Prayer Christian MobRules CancelCulture Are you crazy?

No. It was weaponized by hacks like Guardian

Weaponised by the right? How deluded are these lefties!

Get over yourself

More progressive bullshit.

The Guardian is UberWoke

😂😂😂GTFOH with your made up words already 😂😂😂

Is it right or just centre ground ppl talking common sense that doesn’t fit with the virtue signalling liberal elite whose lives aren’t detrimentally affected by the issues they pontificate over and claim to have experience of to get msm attention

Oh for Pete's sake.

Another awful article on wokeness, the Guardian being the leader in this field. Very earnest and PC .God forbid anybody would stand up to these narrow minded people who believe one has no right to an opinion which differs; I.e, shut down all debate.

Nope. Its about being biased, racist and in such away that using the term means you think you can get away with it .. tell it to this one

'Woke' is a load of BS. End of.

“Go woke, go broke”

😂😂😂😂😂

And created by the left. Do not moan when someone turns your own weapons on you!

Viva the right ...right is way better than wrong.

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What an absolute load of bollocks! Wokeness is madness.

Great! We need to in order to stand up to your liberal lefty onslaught that we have had to endure for the last 20 years or more! Suck it up!

Would you like some cheese with that whine?

Lol

It's only the Grauniad, they're All Bonkers there.

Ridiculed. You weaponised it with stupidity.

You mean abused by the left?

Confused yet? You will be! awakened

SUCH an important write up, thank you. Wish we had the kind of journalism exhibited by The Guardian here in America.

“Criticising “woke culture” has become a way of claiming victim status for yourself rather than acknowledging that more deserving others hold that status” Posts criticising woke culture are claiming victim status for 19k UK children raped by Pakistani Muslims

Yes, we take your nonsense, turn it around and use it right back on you, just like FakeNews SJW Woke GetWokeGoBroke

Woke? Aka guardian. Aka pathetic

😂so after all the bullying, harrassing and generally filling the airspace with hypocrisy, the ultra-left has now realized it is...

😂😂😂

The only weapons write for the

Much preferred the sequel. Woke 2: Electric Boogaloo 👌🏻

Hilarious. Is this a parody newspaper? 😂

How about stop badge bashing everyone with an opinion, and be nice!!! stop taking the flipping ‘intelligent’ moral high ground, over anyone who is inclined to disagree with an opinion. who’s right, who’s wrong? Who actually gives a flying f*ck ?

Awakening happened on the right..if you need educated...the left attempt was called woke...like 100% a sleep or 100% sheep

First “woke” describes ridiculous attitudes; next conservatives ridicule the ridiculous. Then The Guardian calls it “weaponizing.” Sorry, but the ridiculous is always going to be ridiculed.

How the word “Woke” was grammatically incorrect. But whatever.

You don't get it do you

This publication has become an utter joke. Forever trying to shove woke ideology down peoples throats. Heaven forbid you rebel against that because then you are labelled as ' alt right ' MSM in their slavish desire to pander to the far left have lost all touch with the common man

Got to laugh 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Knew the guardian would say that all the harassment the planted lecturer apparently took on question time reported in their rag nothing about the peace loving lefty loving guardian readers with threats if violence and one even threatened a shotgun in LozzaFox face! far left pfft

Don’t be so ridiculous

Woke = cringe.

The Guardian are nonces.

'Weaponised' 😄

“today’s detractors often claim they are rejecting the word as a signifier of pretentiousness and “cultural elitism” You have your answer in your own article.

LEARN TO WOKE

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The Guardian is woke

weaponised has been weaponised.

If the Right weaponized woke, then the Left weaponized racism, bigotry, anti-Semitism, homophobia and misogynism

Different opinions are the work of Satan.

In the culture wars the 'right' seem far more inventive and linguistically creative, than the supposedly more literate, liberal-left. SJW, NPC, soy boy, snowflake, etc 'Brexshit' and the nasty class bigotry of 'Gammon' is your creative contributions so far. Biting satire, that.

How your word “woke” was turned on you,Guardian leftie idiots, you don’t like it when it’s up you 👍

BORING

How the word 'racism' and 'white privilege' was weaponised by the left ?

😆🤣😂🤣😆😂🤣

Barack Obama is on to something in this video. People who demonstrate how super virtuous they are by “being as judgmental as possible about other people” are largely to blame for the labels ‘woke’, ‘snowflake’ etc and the rise of the Foxes of the world.

Extreme leftism & extreme rightism are silly. We see through the ridiculous posturing. You can be aware of issues without resorting to hysterics and having tantrums.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

WatchRatio Sleep

Give it a rest you lefty clowns.

Oh dear

LoLz

Don't blame us. Blame the SJWs.

How the word ‘woke’ was intended to fool gullible liberals into believing they were Awake for being brainwashed to be intolerant of their own country and even their own race whilst calling it politically ‘correct’ These are the words that were weaponised by the Marxists.

Wokeness is a weapon and a poison and a fallacy. It seeks to silence dissent; neuter debate; impose new hierarchies (as unjust as any other); and to divide all of us as the Romans, Inquisitors and Nazis did. It masquarades as progressive, but lures us backwards into an abyss.

JESUS, can't the leftists accept that one actor doesn't like the destructive 'woke' culture that is being promoted by idiot failing rags like The Retardian without being labelled as 'the right'? maybe 'in the right' but not the right.

'Woke' is just a way that people can feel superior and scream at people, while doing the same thing they are screaming about.

This is the new 'woke' take. Now do 'safe space'

Well the left will continue to try to divide people into smaller and smaller groups in some sort of oppression olympics, the right just basically have had enough. Go woke, go broke...

Woke hasn’t been weaponised, woke people are risible, they attract criticism and ridicule because of their nonsense and childish complaints.

Who writes this shit.

Hilarious 🤣 ... ‘the word ‘woke’ was weaponised’! It’s only a word. There’s too much emphasis on the words these days, and not enough on the issues.

The word 'weaponised' was weaponised by the left

'We adulterated the meaning of word for our own purposes, and those mean right wingers use it as a pejorative against us' 😭😭😭

Thoughts and prayers.

The guardian has gone from virtue signalling WOKE to victims of anti WOKE in 1 swift move.

So by 'the right' you actually mean all the normal people

The woke are asleep to the wide awake in the real world putting them back to bed for a permanent sleep. Long may they rest. We won’t be reading them a story or tucking the little dears in!

The woke mindset is weaponised in itself as it was intended to be weaponised as its confrontational which is why there is a backlash increasing against it as its gone beyond what is rational+reasonable as its cultist behaviour

Apparently it’s “right wing” to call bull shit on ludicrous and unfounded allegations of racism.

Ha ha. The left created it.

Much like the right weaponized racist, white supremacist, Christian, patriots, bible toters, rednecks, a never-ending list of words. Oh and don't forget male or female, girls and boys. realDonaldTrump

What is the solution to your complete lack of self awareness? You wont realise it but there is something seriously wrong involving this mindset+really it looks like a psyop because its irrational when its threatened+you cant reason with it/If its not a psyop then what is it?

Can a joke be weaponized? woke

By the right you mean correct.

says the jew hating anti semitic racist labour left guardian

the right is calling intolerant woke facists as intolerant woke facists? oh how weaponised. DefendFreeSpeech

It’s because of Brexit & the threat of a NoDealBrexit

Hey wokerati

When I wipe my arse,I use the Guardian.

twaddle

Woke is no laughing matter. It was the woke that enabled 1000s of children to be raped by muslim gangs. The word should be weaponised with extreme prejudice.

Used by the right?...... I presume you mean used by normal folk.

I can only see one weapon here!

I have a theory why fox was so animated when his privileged background is mentioned. I think he wants to believe that he is in his position due to his talent and merit alone. This illusion comes crashing down when reminded that it is due to his lucky position in life.

Too woke or too widely used to be classified as trendy.

It doesn’t matter what it called. Race baiting is very real and destroying any hope for harmony in the uk.

Says the Marxist Communist rag which loves the Extreme Left 😂😂😂 Dear God, why don't you just give it up? The masses are waking up and your propaganda machine has run out of fuel

Total left wing bullshit

The word 'gammon' was weaponised by the left.

The Guardian the woke newspaper. Promotes wokeness, loves wokeness and epitomises wokeness which we are all sick to the back teeth of!

It's alright for those on the left that don't agree with there way of thinking to call those people racist without any known evidence

It’s nothing to do with right and left and everything to do with reason and logic. There seems to be a remarkable gap in the market for common sense.

Now list the words weaponised by the left....

Like how 'racist' was weaponised by the left.

Yeah..weaponized 'as in ridicule and criticism of nonsensical thought crimes' Public opinion is against divisive policies to move country ever further towards socialism.

Your so deluded!

Reality asserts itself

It’s Culture of Complaint revisited: created by the right especially for the left to fragment and remove any power from the opposition

Why do we suddenly listen to these pompous privileged ponces who never had to do a stroke of work un their lives.

How the word - violence - racism - supremacist - bigot - omniphobe - weaponized - etc etc etc ...was weaponized by the Left LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder

It’s not even a proper word , for f*** sake.

1. It's not just the 'right'. 2. We're not done yet.

Broke: woke Woke: who cares

'How the left shot themselves in the face by being woke twats'

😆😆😆😆😆 Morons

How the guardian spent 2 years falsely labelling Corbyn and the Labour party racist and whilst giving the alt right racists and their king Johnson a free ride to threaten and belittle black and minority ethnic people n the UK.

Actually, was weaponized by the Guardian

They did the same thing with “PC,” which was a term of the left, originally.

The days of the left shaming people into stifling their opinions for fear of being branded racist sexual ageist etc are over people have had enough 🤔

Grow up you bell end.

Just different conformist, intolerant opinions.

So these black guys are far right?

Anyone fancy a read of total bolo*. Read on 🙄

When you create a brand, however much you spend on marketing, you can't actually force the public to view it favourably

How the word “democracy” was weaponised by the left.

Boycott the guardian

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 the left use it as sign of intellectual enlightenment! most just see it as a word of arrogance self righteousness elitism and out of touch with reality leftwing extremists! The left weaponised language never thinking it could be used against them 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

Written by a bunch of weapons......

'Weaponised' 😂😂😂 Silly people

Cool, do all the words the left have weaponized now. I'll get you started. Conservative Republican Capitalist []-phobe Racist Nazi Feel free to add to this.

mashabayeva3 uqwww the liberal guardian

The Left could always stop using it. Stupid word anyway.

G O T O H E L L 🖕🏻

Thank feck I am not woke, whatever it means 🙄

It's about bloody time. Now you will reset to get a taste of your own medicine.

How on earth is the abomination that is the guardian still in print ?

I am very proud that I am not woke!

Pretty much everyone is laughing at you lot. The British public have been very patient but now the tide is turning . The Unwoke have awoken 😘

Nothing was “weaponized”. No one magically turned word into a weapon. That’s stupid panicked self servicing exaggeration (at best). You don’t like how some people use that word. So what? No story here. Do some reporting

There is nothing more embarrassing than being woke. Give your heads a wobble.

The only people who ‘weaponised’ woke was the left & the likes of you - Guardianista’s. Woke is a joke and it’s all on you.

We just showed it for the shame it is :3

Guardian is so WOKE!

Say the weaponisation experts.

The left are the ones calling everyone else racist/homophobic/bigoted/nazis etc constantly.

AdeleIsla This article is so woke I can feel the white privilege peeling away from me.

What are you Guardians of? I have seen your cumbersome newspaper it is as pompous as the people who write the articles in it. Heavy, full of crap that spills out everywhere, weird articles, weird format....

Woke = Manipulated 👍🇺🇸

Seeing through the media lies and bias

There are different types of right wingers, some moderated, centrists, radicals, mixed and infiltrated in the left.... Posing as inclusive and defending 'the noble causes'

Lol/

More like the left overreached and shot themselves in the foot...

The left has made 'weaponising' some of the most ubiquitous (and obscure) words in the English language a regular practice. Black, white, him, her, cis... Trying to control and redefine words is just a power grab. Being able to 'correct' someone gives them a smug sense of power.

I don't think many people take privileged left leaning middle class Guardian readers seriously at all in this world, thankfully.

Here we go, privileged middle class leftists calling everyone racist and right wing again 🙄 Maybe they should read this article.

No no, it wasn't weaponised by the right. Woke people cannot function without antagonising everyone around them.

Woke is not weaponised by the right. Personally i object to the woke,lefty,politically correct claptrap but have in no way weaponised the word woke. If the woke people had been quiet and not preached their beliefs i would not have known about this sect.

oh do **** off.

Eve82140453 What a complete load of bollocks

I was wondering where all the hate and vitriol would go to once we left the EU. Seems the Great British public is set to devour itself wholeheartedly.

Don't cancel the word woke. You'll start a boogaloo in our clown world society. Pepe from Kekistan says it will be 👌!

Just by the right Lollll. Yet another pointless inaccurate article from

' its mainstream ubiquity ' . Really ? I only hear it from Right wingers moaning about it.

And how many words have the left weaponised?

More drivel from The Guardian.

Words like 'weaponised by the right' show how far left and intolerant the Guardian really is.

The vast majority of people I associate with in my personal and professional life(including myself) are somewhere between moderate progressive & center-left & all of us despise the cult of woke. The woke crowd is doing a massive disservice to the majority of left leaning folk

What the hell is Phil Mitchell doing peddling this rags drivel

How the Guardian and MSM continues to delineate language to control narratives and free speech...fixed it for you. You’re welcome

There is supporting worthy causes and generally trying to be a decent citizen; but when the constant barrage of identity-driven politics strangulates - and takes precedence over - other wholly important debates (climate change, poverty, disease) surely it’s time to call it out?

Why don't you just woke off, you bunch of wokers.

Remember the it was the Left which first used the term Fakenews. How'd that work out for you?

Oh dear. More sobbing by PC cretins

The guardian is a woke joke bullshit paper

You folks are really, really stupid.

Someone woke wrote this

Withdraw Fox's equity card.

Ah poor babies. Have a nana.

when the left used it it was fine. now that the right uses it its a no no word

You absolute hacks. Garbage “news”

It was also used by the so called left to state how more superior they were against so called lesser folks with so called traditional values. So if you hold the term woke as a badge of honour don't be surprised when people throw back in your face.

Well I am surprised. An article in the Guardian about the right weaponising the word 'woke'. Maybe they'd do better getting off their arras', leaving their ivory towers, and finding out what the average Joe in the street thinks about their petty politicking.

As Voltaire said 'I may not agree with your point of view but I will defend your right to say it'. Woke is a form of moral high-handed censorship that shuts down any narrative that it considers politically incorrect. It is the enemy of freedom of speech.

How the word woke was inflicted on society by those who are stuck in the Obama era.

'weaponising' a word vs weaponising race, sex, age etc hmmm, which is worst? 🤔

The only weaponization is it being used to mock the left, but clearly you don't get sarcasm. wokeamagedon

“the word “woke” has come to connote the opposite of what it means” Like when the “OK” hand signal is imagined to be a Nazi thing?

Mad as a bicycle

What's it mean? Just a word posh right wing cnts with names like Toby use

I’m so sorry this happened to you 😞

just wait will we have enough XP to LVL 1 prestige our weaponized jokes

There is no such thing as social justice. Just sayin'.

😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂👌

☝🏻 how big corporate media ended

What complete utter bollocks.

Goose - meet gander

It's right to reject the 'woke' - simply shouting 'racism' 'white privilege' or any other bull**** doesn't mean they are correct Tired of them watering down the real meaning of racism

Ah the 🔔🔚's of the left are upset bless .... 🤣

sounds like the TheBabylonBee these days. Perhaps, ironically, thats how it survives.

Ha ha The Guardian being The Guardian.

The guardian beginning to get a sweat on .their little brains can’t comprehend what’s happened in the last couple of months 😂

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Don't know who that Fox chap is, but I do know that Mr Young is a nasty, ill mannerd, loud mouthed misogynist as well as ex drug dealer. Why give him oxygen?

Pretty sure it was you guys and other sections of the Left that have weaponised woke identity politics for the past decade. Now you're upset it's blowing up in your face.

Virtue signaling is so “woke”

Wokeness = ridiculous.

Weapons aren't needed against the Guardian. You are your own worst enemies.

No. Ordinary people are just asking you to explain and justify - **exactly** - what you mean to say with some of the woke terminology and buzzwords. Fair, since none of it is objective or based on peer reviewed social science. It was a useful way to shutdown debate. No longer.

It was weaponised by the left looooong before that happened

Yall cry about nothing constantly. It's really pathetic.

Rofl, guardian of woke culture. Haha...

No. Orinary people are just asking you to explain and justify - **exactly** - what you mean to say with some of the woke terminology and buzzwords. Fair, since none of it is objective or based on peer reviewed social science. It was a useful way to shutdown debate. No longer.

Get woke, go broke

left liberals are mentally ill .. they are weaponising everything against them selfs ..

You do not realise how stupid your leftie rag sounds ! 😆😆😆😆

“Criticising “woke culture” has become a way of claiming victim status for yourself rather than acknowledging that more deserving others hold that status.” It’s official - woke folk don’t see people as equals

If anyone has weaponised the word it is the illiberal left. The article is a typical Guardian take on the issue.

A word for me but none for thee. More censorship by the left.

Not nearly as much as the Left has weaponised the word ‘racism’.

oh piss off

Well the word right was weaponized so what did you expect

Is the guy on the left the dude from Nickelback?

You misspelled left wing

Lol, woke weaponized by the right! Woke is like a hand grenade set-off by the left in the public consciousness. It is you guardian pseudo-intellectuals who created and distributed woke like some ideological version psychoactive substances.

Woke n Boke

Nope. Woke came to mean what it means because woke people are so ridiculous. The woke weaponised it themselves by their own behaviour.

lol...

It was weaponised by white hipsters who annoy the hell out of everyone.

Ah, the self-parodying Guardian. Everyone laughs at you.

Good ratio developing here. We are winning the battle against the lefts intolerance

About quarter past four this morning, I woke and I've been awake right up to writing this message. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to feel now I've woke, I certainly don't feel any different now to when I woke 5 years ago, perhaps it's just another passing phase.

Is the Guardian now entirely satirical? I can't tell the difference between it and TheBabylonBee anymore.

So you are really really really really really woke. Brilliant

Let's look at what The Guardian and the Left have weaponised: -Pronouns -biological gender -children -white ethnicity -microaggressions -speech Don't you dare lecture to us about weaponised words! You started it all.

Peak Guardian. Bravo!

Everything The Guardian says is an idea weaponised against the public.

the Woke Gestapo demands words be used only in ways they approve. so glad the Left is getting smashed at elections

Oh get a grip . You used to be a readable and serious newspaper rather than a load of anguished, irrelevant, contrary toss.

...Or, how the left weaponised intolerance dressed as compassion and it came back to bite them in the arse.

After the left has weaponized every word imaginable

It was weaponized by the left for sure. Just like they did with 'climate change'.

Two things. It was weaponised because it was a stupid, made up word that was richly deserving of mockery.

The entire concept of human civility has been weaponized by the left.

Woke on the Left Broke on the Right?

How the words “racist” “fascist” were weaponised by the left wing zealots....

😂😂😂 so ridiculous and typical of woke liberal rags 🤥✅⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

“Weaponized by the right”. What a joke

Ironic how the 'woke' are asleep to reality, can't we just continue with the 'loony' left.

How woke of you to write this garbage.

Groundbreaking stuff guys. So can we retire 'woke' and focus on UNITY? Or is that simply not your gig?

Demonised

How «guardian» became super boring.

True, but woke ideology has been weaponized by the left so what’s your point?

And the ratio says:

I find it ironic because you woke lefties dribble like you are half asleep 😂

Next article surely ' How the word' racist' was weaponised by the left.

Decades ago black people used it to be aware of bigger issues think of it like Neo waking up from the Matrix, now it’s ran into the ground and means any old BS.

Sadly, the country is becoming bored with the incessant, unnecessary use of these virtue signalling words. For example the word 'racism' has now become almost meaningless through it's over use.

Oh bless, are the woke becoming offended that people are fighting back against their patronising, sneering abuse aimed at those who dare to speak out and challenge the leftazi? Suck it up, buttercups.....have some quinoa and kale.

Wow. That's woke

'weaponised' 😂 rly?

I just assumed it was some Ebonics word

Another Wokerato getting ratio'd 😄

Progressives seem to have trouble with the concept that not everyone agrees with them. Yes, the woke deserved to be mocked. Not because they are always wrong, but because they don't think they are always correct; they know 100% they are.

Being 'woke' and hence relying on victimhood to ensure you can't be challenged on any ideology, no matter how ridiculous, is good But: Challenging the ridiculous woke ideology, and so stopping the perpetrators hiding behind victimhood, is bad No wonder the is failing🤔

🤣🤣 NPC’s so woke, it’s parody! Now do the left and words like racist & Nazi. I’ll wait.

LOL. Cry more you bunch of babies.

Of course whatever new, moral self-congratulatory descriptors come to replace it will also inevitably be mocked to the point they're 'weaponized' as well The cycle begins anew

Woke was always lame. If anyone weaponised it, it wasn't the right but the left because they shot themselves in the foot with it.

Much the same as the word racist has been weaponised by the left then?.

Guardian shitting in its own hands and eating it again

Dear Guardian: stop trying to tell people what they can and cannot say.

Woke is a terrible, vacuous word for something important. Society keeps infantilizing serious issues with stupid nicknames, and then it gets widely mocked by the right.

Thanks to the liberals, I've been wakening for since President Trump was elected, and now I'm fully WOKE. I voted for Hillary BTW.

This article is woke.

My god, you blokes are divorced from reality. You’ll learn someday.

who isn't to the right of The Guardian's opinon writers?

This is how 'woke' progressists with no arguments, so censoring people they don't agree with is their only tool, are in front of a computer when writing this kind of nonsense.

Whoever invented the ridiculous term weaponised it.... Oh the irony

how autism was weaponised by the internet

Oh the irony of the ' Woke' loony liberal Guardian.

Load of crap. 'Woke' doesn't mean 'attentiveness to important issues.' Woke is a culture of mostly white, college educated, middle/upper-class buffoons who built their entire worldview on critical race theory, queer theory, colonization theory, feminist theory etc.

Someone ‘woke’ the up 😴🥱

The Guardian is the guilty instigator of weaponising the word woke. Being the mouthpiece of and for the woke community, the majority of ordinary people no longer want to be condescended by the liberal politics who are in fact have dictatorial tendencies trying to burst out!

What like how 'whiteprivilege' has been weaponised by the left to replace there over used abused use of racism or any other ism?

*Surly* woke is spelt Grauniad?

By the 'right'. You mean by normal, non ideologically possessed people who are fed up of the woke nonesence. But, of course I can see how the guardian wouldn't understand that as it doesn't get much more left. Everything is south when you're standing on the north pole

'but today we are more likely to see it being used as a stick with which to beat people who aspire to such values' 😂 That's how it was used in the 1st place-oh how the tide turns.....Bye bye -snowflakes...❄️

For a rag with a profile stating the need for “independent journalism”, seems you go against your own faux grain to be partisan and your journalism leans to activism. You’re not an enigma, you’re a tool.

This how woke progressists with no arguments, so censoring people they don't agree with is their only tool, are in front of a computer when they write this kind of nonsense.

Let them have it, it's an awful and irritating word..

Race race race race race. That's all the left has.

Correct use of the word 'woke': I woke up this morning after a good night's sleep.

Wokeism is the weapon of the left, they see colour and Race in everything

Woke fucks

This article is so W O K E

Um, nope, You know what 'the right' uses to criticize 'the left'? 'The left' -- a lazy, all inclusive, generalized, monolithic term for everything they find annoying, obnoxious and dangerous. Woke was weaponized by the woke themselves, by being prejudiced frauds.

How the word 'racist' was weaponised by the left.

It wasn’t weaponized, it was ridiculed, and rightfully so.

‘Weaponized’ 😂😂😂

'Weaponised'😂 We just pointed out that 'woke' is a joke and we aren't necessarily 'the right' just right.

This highlights the division between us on the left. There are those who don’t appreciate being lectured and mocked for holding what are considered ‘old fashioned’ values and ideals. As a result, phrases such ‘woke’ are used to ridicule those we should be working with not against

But it wasnt, the people who coined it used it in a self congratulatory and yet yet pretentious way. Other people then preceded to mock those who patted themselves on the back. Becuase that's sorta one of those things people do.

I guess the disingenuous slandering of its political opposition by the Left hasn’t worked out the way they thought it would. Who’d thought that people would eventually get pissed off with being lectured by immoral, virtue signalling tosspots? 🤔

We are not ‘woke,’ We are AWAKE, hence the Great Awakening! It means that We no longer buy BS, from the Guardian, or any other form of Marxist media! VoteRedToSaveAmerica2020 Trump2020 realDonaldTrump OANN

My god, grow the hell up.

Or not. But whatever

Merriam-Webster defines woke as..

Haha ‘far right’. Yes an actor speaking in a manner that reflects what most hard working British think is the equivalent of Hitler. The Guardian is a parody rag.

According to some people, mostly white liberals, I'm not 'woke' because I'm Blexit. Apparently growing up without my father in the 'hood wasn't good enough. Instead I must join the hive of wokeness...

You have thousands of articles using the same word. YOU are the one weaponizing it.

Omgg, the tiresome Left luvvies.

More white guys complaining about whites

I never thought I’d say it BUT I will NEVER, ever vote for a labour government ever again..such is the abuse I recieved (from “woke” 😉 left wingers) for agreeing with Laurence fox’s QT segment. I could never fit where these “woke” (left) folk Ruled.

Using people's narcissism and idiocy against them is NOT 'weaponising' it, It's simlly pointing out the ridiculousness of it.

All lazy shorthand is doomed to suffer at the hands of its laziness and shorthandedness.

Another example of the madness of wokeness;

'The language has been successfully co-opted – but as long as the underlying injustices remain, new words will emerge to describe them.' And we are poised to co-opt those words as well. Here's a word we use you can co-opt 'Tosser'.

Proof of the can being kicked down the road. If the word doesn’t work for the left anymore it’s bigoted.

'Woke' was smug self satisfaction at one's obvious awareness of the 'truth' and a condescending insult that everyone who dared to object was 'asleep'. It's gotten exactly what it deserved. It's exactly the same as 'red pilled' on the far right, btw.

I think the Guardian has that mental lock out, not knowing their left from their right.

Hyperbolic

I was born woke. How long have the so called Woke crowd, been hating, gays, immigrants and people of colour?

LOL You Dems are something else. Wokw Woke Woke CorruptDemocrats CorruptMSM

the word 'woke' has been stupid since it was first misused non-grammatically and non-ironically. Using it is hitting yourself in the face. DON'T.

This article is the epitome of woke 😂🤣😂

Thanks, Ministry of Truth.

Hahaha weaponised be the right

Liberals have weaponised the issue of racism as to render it meaningless.

The word 'woke' hits too close to to the target (social justice behaviour that is as zealous and dogmatic as a religious revival) so now it must be cancelled.

Now do the word 'nazi'

Soon they’ll be no words left.

Woke, Social Justice Warrior; all the same sort of sanctimonious, virtue signaling, insufferable gas bags. Usually an employee of some government agency or college student (AKA welfare recipient). MO; root out wrong thinking and cancel the offender.

Great piece!

Poor guardian. Funny how they still try to make about it’s not left wing.

Correction it was the lunatic left that used it so much to the point of it being yet another useless buzzword, but as always they blame the right for everything like the NPCs they are

Maybe deranged Leftists are just a joke regardless of what words they invent?

Translation: the poisonous, self serving hypocrisy of the guardian et al has now been exposed and the ordinary people can see it. And you're really rather scared. Good.

GoWokeGoBroke

It was already weapons-grade, so what did you expect?

Will there be a follow up article on how the words 'racist', 'sexist', 'homophobe', 'Islamophobe' etc were weaponised by the left?

What a bunch of woke crap

No it was the left that use it, but now you're just blaming the right like always

Woke off

Lol

You've done that to yourself, don't play the blame game😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The Guardian, causing division as always

JonathanPieNews is officially right wing now. Mmmkay

you just cannot compute that people think you are a joke

The word woke has been a weapon of the politically correct virtue signallers to help protect their extremist bigotry being attacked now they are are cringing because they have been exposed the empower or has had his new clothes explained.

you mean like the left has weaponized all the -isms? poor liberals

Woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke

How the words racist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, bigot, incel and misogynist were so much weaponized by the left and so over used that it made the tranquil and peaceful right react to the left like never before for censuring and the ending of free speech

Not our fault that everyone who uses it unironically is a moron.

You can't tell me what words I can use or not, so STFU

Boo hoo grow up.

Alternate title: 'How the word 'woke' was ruined by the left'

Rhymes with “Yoke,” and “Joke,” then as a result, “Toke.”

No....it was weaponised by you.

Twats

Woke = lazy slang for dummies because awake is tooooooo long. 😂

Are you not weaponizing right now?

“Weaponized” The msm always makes me eye roll w their stupid reasoning for stuff they don’t understand Maybe We’re just tired of pusses waking up wondering what they can be offended at & yelling at us instead of just saying “that’s stupid & I don’t agree” & moving on

The Guardian is so woke. 🤧🤧🤧

Look what 'wokeness' did to society and now you're surprised that people are angry

Hopefully we can also have a discussion about the over use of the word 'weaponize'

Because people don’t know what it means and care about the culture/community ot cane from

Its actually the exact opposite and every sane person know this

What does weaponised mean in this context.

Well done Steve for missing the point 🙄

tHe RiGhT wEaPoNiZeD tHe WoRd “wOkE” bEcAuSe ThEY’rE rAcIsT aNd BiGoTtEd AnD hOmOpHoBiC aNd PRiViLeD wHiTe PeOpLe AnD tHeY cAn JuSt ShUt uP aNd LeT uS rUle ThE wOrLd ALrEaDy!!

When you make up stupid terms to call yourself... be prepared to be ridiculed.

How the word ‘Guardian’ was used to undermine professional journalism.

I've never heard anyone say it in real life. It's just Internet patter.

Like a kid in the playground pushing someone then claiming assault when the kid pushes back

What a piss poor article

Woke woke woke means asleep and brainwashed.

If the clown shoe fits....

getwokegobroke

“Woke” is just the secular religious version of “holier than thou” in the same way that “the right side of history” is the secular version of “its god’s will.” Same dogmatic, religious, conformist, unfalsifiable fervor, just without the deity.

It was easy, all the people that were self identifying as it were wankers.

A woke titular by The Guardian.

It's because people like Laurence Fox, Toby Young and others like Piers Morgan do not have a moral compass. They do not have standards and values, and seeing people who do have a moral compass call others out and hold people to account for their actions is baffling to them.

It's ruined Morse now.

Laurence “won’t date women under 35, because they’re too woke” Translation - has mummy issues

How the left try to control language and shut down criticism.

Laurence “date women under 35, because they’re too woke” Translation - has mummy issues

Woke newspaper

Why don't you talk about how the left has weaponised 'Nazi', 'fascist' and 'racist' by using them against people they simply disagree with to the point where they are just meaningless... People are sick of the far lefts ideology, criticising your mad ideas is justified.

Step 1: Leftists concoct some vapid, idiotic nostrum (white privilege, environmental justice, etc). Step 2: Conservatives ridicule it and lambaste the absurdity of it. Step 3: Clueless Leftists assume conservatives debased their dumb idea, not that the dumb idea debased itself.

It was a term coined by the left, of coarse people are going to take the piss out of it. Only thing you’re trying to do is once again demonise people with different views.

Wrong, wrong and wrong.

The Guardian 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I am committed to only using 'w-word' from now on. I don't know for sure but I'm guessing that it's ok for them to use it about each other.

How mainstream media is becoming irrelevant

How The Guardian says something is something that isn’t.

Usual ‘woke’ bollocks from The Guardian.

Only because the Left has made itself such an easy target for ridicule.

LOL! I love watching the left eat their own. The woke movement and the Me too movement has boomerang on the left 100 times more than it has the right lol!! Celebrities and leftist politicians have been the main victims of the woke/me too culture 😂😂

Far leftism is not the norm.

Two nasty shits

Woke describes a set of behaviors and beliefs. If it is considered insulting then perhaps review those behaviors and beliefs.

Maybe it's because those who are some are SO insufferable.

😂😂😂😂 liberalism is mental illness

Here for the ratio.

🤣🤣🤣

If the woke were genuinely trying to make the world a better place it would be very hard to mock it. However they choose to take offence to everything and brand anyone who strays from the party line as a bigot. Unsurprisingly the majority think you are all cunts! What a shock!

How is being aware of social injustice a bad thing. There are so many contributors on here accusing others of being intolerant for preaching tolerance. I’m confused. Surely we’d all, left or right, like to be thought of as wanting social justice.

It was mocked cause people have finally woke against the demorats party and how they just use people for votes

Dumb word gets called out for being dumb.

Dear Guardian, you are the wokiest woke in all the woke, actually in all the wokiverse

The woke people control the BBC. WalkerMaths GrahamUKIP PhilipMoulson ukip_sththanet

The term 'woke' was rendered toxic by the far-left, who, under its banner engaged in fanatical censorship, doxxing, and social engineering in the name of their false utopian visions. When the left comes up with a new term, we'll despise that one too and use it to mock you.

How the word “weaponized” was overused by everyone.

Careful where you point that word! It's been weaponized, you know.

How can you claim to provide the truth when your country has censorship laws that prevent it? Without free speech, you'll only report what your government allows.

Another attempt from the left to stifle speech. GO to hell.

We made it up for the intolerant identity politics of the left and now the tide has turned against the stupid identity politics of the anti western left. They keep losing elections and will continue to do so. 👍🇺🇸🇬🇧

Rachel amply 'weaponised' her wokeness into full blown racism: 'What I worry about your comment is, you are a white privileged male.'

Hilarious. Essentially this should be retitled: ‘How People We Don’t Agree With Have Finally Had Enough Of This Divisive Madness We’ve Encouraged’. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Shouts the 'Gammon' using Racist Guardian.

Shut up wokeoids

Weaponized? It is a fair criticism for the unbelievable hypocrisy of a privileged elite.

Hilarious blaming them. Lazy lazy Guardian Journos has even been used in Hollywood film in that context YEARS before those people went on TV. You morons are now beyond Parody. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

4 AM talking points to maintain control of the masses. Yep...the righteous are 'woke'. The losers are losing control. The Great Awakening is upon us. Nothing can stop what's coming. Nothing...losers.

Was this written by a newspaper? Wow.

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Woke is just a stupid term.

I call 🐎💩

No wonder why your paper is a failing pile of plop... You print absolute nonsense!!! guardianleftistcrap

its a preachy term from 2014 for leftists to shame others. Their ideas are not standing up to the test of time, so the term woke gets cringier every day. Its been 6 years, some words dont last long in pop culture.

LOL, BS

HoltHolt99 Coming from the people who invented and weaponized the term 'gammon.' Knobs 😁😁

TLDR: we are unable to recognize our own hypocrisy and asshole behavior is why any name we call ourselves becomes an insult by conservatives.

Hahahahaha.

And the Gruniad wonders why it’s skint.

Now talk about the word 'fascist'

😂😂

Just when you think the left can not get anymore ignorant out comes this article

Diversity! Love! Tolerance! A better world! From the people more than willing to assault, harass, dox, no platform, get fired, etc. ... people who even dare to raise a point, ask a question, or just hold a different view/opinion Reminds me of the 'two minutes hate'

You poor little woke princess's,how difficult life must be for you all. The mean old right wingers stealing your words and all. I could just weep with the injustice.

Says the woke newspaper. Actually they’re not even woke, they’re that icky brand of corporate-wokeness that everybody dislikes, left and right.

So boring

Freedom has been weaponized by the Left

How about save yourself some time and just say whatever the right says, is weaponized, and they need to be stopped from speaking any words.

'Over the last three years, much of what the Guardian holds dear has been threatened – democracy, civility, truth. This US administration is establishing new norms of behavior. Anger and cruelty disfigure public discourse and lying is commonplace.' What a lie! You did that.

Why does the Guardian insist that those who mock 'wokeness' are right-wing? I'm not even slightly right-leaning, yet I find this intersectionalist bumph to be fundamentally racist and more akin to fascism than 'social justice'.

Weaponized....lol. Any actual adults work for you clowns or what?

What a load of bollocks.

Alternatively, we’re all bored of having PC bullsh1t rammed down our throats and are reacting accordingly

Let's get our labels clearly defined here so that we can adhere to them as strictly as possible.

Read it and weep lefties , we're coming back at ya

Being “woke” would’ve been good had it not been for the scolds.

I hope this is satire.

Cute story.

That’s so woke of you. 👎🏻😂

If I woke up this morning does that mean I’m turning into a liberal leftie...better stay in bed until tonight.

A word for those self satisfied, self righteous people who see themselves as superior to others. Like to preach about equality, pretend they approve of Democracy, all votes equal, but want votes removed from those with a different opinion.

Sounds like someone doesn't want to be 'woke' any more. Racist bigot

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣you still dont get it!

I think this is ridiculous. Now you are politicizing a word? Seriously?!

Ah ha! Once again, the Left creates something which is then used by the Right as a weapon against them. A GREAT example of this was the time Obama labeled independent right leaning journalism as 'fake news' and Trump took it and beat the MSM with it. AllYourMemesAreBelongToUs

It was 'weaponized' by woke people by being so ridiculous.

😶

How the word 'right' was weaponized by the media

“The Guardian” should change their name to “The Leftist News” They have become a weapon for the DemonRATs!

How being woke was weaponised by the left.

Timmy Mallet is coming out of retirement to host that Saturday morning kids favourite show, the Wide Awoke Club.

Ah I see. Anyone who uses that work is a fascist. Gothcha. 👍

It's the latest variant of 'do-gooder' or 'bleeding heart.' There are people in this world who are dicks and they hate being reminded of the fact, so they lash out at people around them who are trying not to be dicks. As opposed to...say...trying not to be a dick.

So, Woke people get triggered when you call them 'woke'? What a bunch of snowflakes!

Get woke go vroke

The word 'Woke' was weaponized by the left. The right simply pointed it back at you.

The left weaponized the word and the concept. The right has merely picked it up to fight back. What you're seeing is the right exhibiting more talent with the weapon.

Stupid word made up by the stupid Left.

Now the word woke is bigoted according to the moral police

What a woke article.

Left are just mad they cant meme

The Guardian yet again is out of touch. Confusing mockery with weapons. The blogging group of privileged wannabe journalists at the Guardian extremeleft publication are disappearing beyond the horizon of reality. Clutching at any excuse to claw their way back from obscurity.

I'm now woke to the absurdity of wokeness.

so funny that the esteemed guardian instead of debating people & ideas, just think re-branding the use of certain words as 'alt-right' is the best way forward - how WOKE of them 🤣

A silly piece.

How common-sense was banned by the Left.

How silencing is the lefts weapon against anyone calling them out in their hypocrisy and lies.

Personally I don't like the word 'woke', it's a very on trend American word. I can understand how it jolts with some British sensibilities. I prefer compassionate, self aware, open, inclusive, and generally not being a posh racist idiot.

A few words came to mind reading this such as petty & narrow mindedness. I'm pretty sure both sides have been guilty of using the word 'woke'. Maybe an article that makes people think. Whining about a word!!

DasHitman Lol. This will get retweets but surely you all are starting to realize people aren’t going to click thru to your shitty article, right?

Thats right, what you going to do about it? You woke dopes.

Lol Mad Magazine reboot? Who actually reads this trash

so funny that the instead of debating think of just labelling words as alt-right is the best way forward - how WOKE of them

Yeah ok. Is this what you call journalism in 2020.

Hahshshshshshshshahahahahahahahahaha

How propagandists weaponized words their adversaries use to smear them.

The Grauniad wants to try looking in the mirror with all its bullshit.

The left stole the term from truthers. Woke used to mean you were hep to the popular conspiracy theories of our time. So it turns out, you're all dumb.

Nope! It was lefties that did that! Ppl are just sick and tired of hearing the same old shit “that’s racist” “that’s misogynistic” “that’s something-phobic” being woke means parroting the same establishment view for the last twenty years, nothing more!

If the left stops using the word woke then it can no longer be used as weapon. There problems solved.

How to imply the Right is violent: Use 'weaponize' to describe a term the Left also uses, but only apply it to when the Right uses it.

so you want to censor language now? socialists are fascists in denial lol

The Guardian are more and more irrelevant each day too...

The Gruniad with counter-factual reporting - business as usual

How language was weaponized by the left

As a lifelong labour supporter and remainer, I no longer recognise the left I fought for. Having the meanings of words like ‘woman’ and ‘lesbian’ co-opted to pander to a tiny minority along with woeful Corbyn was the final nail. I have had enough and there are thousands like me.

The left weaponised the words racist, misosginist and all the others to demonize good people that you were unable to beat in a logical discussion

I never used woke as it insults people in a coma. I prefer krunts when dealing with the likes of the & other bat shit sjws 😉

Damn! That's a pretty woke take.

The word was cringey to begin with, even if the intentions were sound, but then it became weaponised by the sneering, hyper-judgemental and permanelty outraged faction of the left. The era of toxic, divisive identity politics is coming to an end.

You realise this is an oxymoron right?!

The left deserves to be mocked. They’re ridiculous

Never really heard 'woke' until some whiny liberal MSNBC JoeNBC on 'Morning Joke ' used it.

‘How the left weaponised identity politics and made themselves unelectable for at least another 10 years’

You invented it, you hid for years behind it, now you reap the whirlwind

Dafuq?

How division was weaponised by the left.

They’ve stopped using “SJW” so something had to fill the gap.

Please fill out the attached form and file in the B1N folder. Thank you

😂😂😂😂

wEaPoNiSed 😂

What? You folks have lost your damn mind.

Sometimes people say stupid things in the name of addressing inequalities. What's scary is the zeal with which some people try to leap from this to an attempt to dismiss all concerns over inequality using weasel words 'woke', 'PC' or 'identity politics'. Dumb people fall for it.

Wokeness is akin to McCarthyism

First they want guns and now they want the Uber cool term “woke”! I am so pissed at those fascists!!

Uh... it’s YOUR word and stupid ideas. You did it to yourselves. 😂

You guys started it. But its our fault for pointing it out? Get Woke LMOL. Or learn to code.

What else will be on the banned word list of the left? The words man and woman?

Oh you mean like how 'racist' and 'Nazi' were weaponised by the left.

The Guardian is so 'woke'...

How the Guardian” says “the the word “woke” was weaponized by the Guardian in this tweet . You make sucking look EZ 🤡

A woke dude writing how people woke up to wokeness and How he got outwoked in the mostest wokiest news service in the universe. wokeLivesMatter

People are sick of this bullshit language fascism!

I used to read the Guardian. Now I just laugh at it.

This article is so woke!

Wow.. The left are some fascists.

RIGHT ON! OH, SHUT UP! I DON'T CARE!

I'm so sorry this is happening to you wokeymcwokeface

Now do the word “racist” by the left!

And the replies from the halfwits are blaming the left. The right, of course, are perfect (snigger...).

Words are simply...words. If you spent as much time building unity as you did looking for dog whistles, the extremists you so fear would be completely irrelevant and in decline.

If the word 'woke' has become a slur, it has done so in the way the names of any other belief systems have throughout history - used as a positive label by the group at first, then as a negative one by others when that group is perceived to have gone too far.

Pedantic pandering as expected from the Guardian. Instead of taking a look at the criticism, pointing out the radical left who are forcing their opinions and censoring society with hypocritical discrimination against free thought.... No, you just have a problem with a word.

🤣🤣🤣 Whaaa whaaaa whaa wha wha wha whaaaaaa 🎻🎻

Mocking ridiculum is not weaponising it, when your actions directly lead to the absurd and repugnant, abuse and rape, ignorance and apathy. You have been judged not by the right but by the court of public opinion and it hs found you guilty as charged. Go figure!

Wokeists are fine and lovely creatures. Until your opinion different to theirs. Then wokeism becomes fascism .

Happy to see cancel culture of the woke getting its cancellation notice.

Are you crying?

Highly amusing to read this in the Guardian, the biggest victim in the UK press of GoWokeGoBroke that has literally been begging its readers on its knees for donations to avoid bankruptcy for over a year! End of the road for left wing weaponised racist/sexist bigoted hypocrisy

The problem is being so woke that literally everything is some kind of racist injustice. Kind of like when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

And you helped it

Fake news is woke 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

'Woke' politics is a war on the general population, subversive with aim to manipulate perspectives, guilt-trip with accusations of 'white privilege' or 'male privilege', and climate alarmism, all with the end-goal of pushing socialism on countries which evidently do not want it.

Err no, you Middle Class Metropolitan Elitist morons, have taken a word that meant something in black politics, and turned it into a term to shout at people you don't like, or like their views!

ShaiHussain 'Political correctness' was getting stale. Populists/demagogues depend on keeping the base constantly riled up about something or other - bongs, Harry & Meghan, wokeness, you name it. What will be the object of next week's 10 Minute Hate?

Okay, Thought Police.

How the word ‘white’ was weaponised by the left

Hahahahahahahahaha. You woke tws. How very Guardian of you. 😂😂😂

Created by the left and used by the right. Both these extremities have fuelled the toxin that is identity politics. By boxing people into groups and saying that’s where you stay, you fuel resentment and anger. The far left and right are to blame for this.

So everyone normal i.e. not woke is now far right?

maybe we'll just go back to calling people gay as a pejorative :)

WEAPONISED, VIOLENCE, TOXIC, DANGEROUS, PROBLEMATIC Descriptions for speech/words that will instantly make you look idiotic (and rightly so)

Stay woke. Learn to code.

Woke accurately describes the disease.

Crimethink

LOL! Bullshit!

how the word 'racist' was weaponised by the left how the word 'fascist' was weaponised by the left all words left use, they dont even use them correctly, they use them against anyone with a different opinion to them.

So as I read it. Middle class white people stole the term from the original black cause, thinking they can make the world believe they share a similar history of oppression for whatever reason and by doing this making the expression ridiculous and useless.

cant stand this liberal bollocks...

Wokay Boomers.

What a nicely woke article

Complete and utter bollocks.

You promoted it. We're rejecting it

Literally every sane person in the UK for the last 4 years: 'we need unity, we need to pull together to make a go of this' The Guardian since their asses got handed to them in 2016: 'right bad, everyone racist'

LOL! Woke and it's concepts were not developed by African Americans. They were developed by Cultural Marxists in US university social science departments and fed out out through the 'Progressive' media. With the intent of destabilising society.

It always amuses me that the 'progressives' and the Left, who have fully weaponised the politics of identity and seek to dominate the narrative with it, simply cannot accept criticism without going into a meltdown over linguistics.

What are we all stupid 🤔

“Weaponized?” Honestly, this is why people hate journalists and coincidentally, why the terrorists hate us. There is so much going on in the world and this is the drivel you choose to churn out?

The word “right” has been weaponised by the left. The words “far right” have been weaponised by the left. The word “diversity” has been weaponised by the left. The word “equality” has been weaponised by the left. The word “white” has been weaponised by the left. The word “male”+

It’s a left word.

Woke lol. The alt left just got Bat shit CRAZY & ppl saw it for what it is.

'Important issues' according to whom? I think you'll find the majority do not see these issues as important. It's a minority with a loud voice raising them. Nothing more.

woke corporate narrative peddlers are the enemy of the people

The left is pulling further and further left by the day. The right has not moved at all further right. So wrong

This has got to be a parody piece...

OK, woko haram 👌🏻

That is stupid

That's woke

Stop trying to control my language!!!!! The left wants to control everything.

Sort of like how the globalist citizen of nowhere nonsense was embraced by the left - who are now being destroyed by it.

No, it was hijacked and abused by the left

LMAO 😂 Peak Guardian right here

how the word 'the right' was weaponized by clueless journalists

Weaponised

Absolute bollocks 😂😂

ADL & SPLC will be sure to ban it. Must ban EVERYTHING

Really? Grow the f☆☆☆ up.

A bit like the word ‘gay’ then 😉

WOKE

Not by the Russians?

The word “right” has been weaponised by the guardian

Funny how the Left overused this word and are now blaming others for weaponizing it

How's those sales figures you absolute out-of-touch loons?

Behave 'woke' Get mad when people call you 'woke' Idiots.

the guardian is just a paper that loves to split the country up

I use the term in a negative way. Like for example 'I disliked this movie because it was woke.' Leftists provided us with a catch-all term to label them us and avoid them.

It's never your fault is it?

Now they are trying to hide the word woke which they invented because we make fun of the woke culture 😂🤔😂🤔😂🤣🤔😂🤣🤔

Jeez, the Guardian are becoming more and more hateful by the day. GetWokeGoBroke

Today I woke bad reading it.

It wasn't 'weaponized', you intellectually dishonest, pandering shills. It was MOCKED. As it should be.

Oh, no ... the Wokies are butthurt because some comedians are laughing at them!

I looked it up when my Trumpster American sister-in-law started using it alot last year. I'm still puzzled why 'being aware of injustice' is deemed to be a bad thing.

The woke get even wokier 🤣🤣🤣

Thats so woke!

It rhymes nicely with Joke.

Hey! Look! They are changing words meaning ... again

Now do one on how the word racist was weaponised by the Left.

Dear Guardian, please fill out this form..

It’s a little bit similar to how the left weaponised gender, sexuality and race isn’t it? It’s kind of backfiring now!

cant wake up in mornin without bein called a 'racist' now? pc gone mad

Andrew Doyle and Douglas Murray, have a gander.

Bunch of woke sissys

Being idiot is not being 'woke'. Calling all sort of lunatics now woke is same as calling US democrats democratic and anarchysts progressives. Hijacking words and turning their meanings in a manner 1984 looks as story for kids. Disgusting!

You don't know what a weapon is. Nor do you know what sarcasm is

We're not weaponising it, just rejecting it for it's obvious insanity. You will thank us eventually.

The Left have become risible.

That term was generated by the Left to describe themselves. The Right uses it in exactly the same way. It isn’t bigoted. It’s a stupid word your side made up and now you’ve found out that everyone except your little enclave of Leftists thinks being woke is perfectly idiotic

We use it to ridicule totalitarians who try to control language, and will continue doing it

To say to anyone you are WHITE privileged is racist.....

Y'all mad we made you understand how stupid you can be? Stay mad.

Everyone is laughing at you.

Woke woke woke woke. Words are not weapons. Notice how you read that and didn't die?

I think people have forgotten that unlike “woke” “politically correct” was never used by the left, it was always a term of right abuse, appropriated from mid20th century oppressive regimes.

Normal folk are onto us! Waaaaah! Waaaaaah!

Or made into a joke by the Left. Perspective is everything.

iMac_too as you said it lebbelling hurts liberals all over world 😂😂

Hahaha fuck off. There's some more words. Try talking about how the left weaponised race, religion, gender and orientation. The divisive language, thought and opinion controlling we can all see right through.

Lol

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The LEFT has gone rabidly insane! They now TELL us to stop talking about how insane they ARE. Woke idiots!

How being wrong about virtually everything was weaponised by the terrible bloggers at the Guardian.

How the Guardian gets 98% of their content wrong, on purpose, to control speech.

😂

It's pretty easy to mock a term that's even stupider than Red Pill or Dark Enlightenment or whatever other shit was stolen from a popular movie.

Get woke, go broke

...and the left weaponised identity.

'Important issues' . Like using the correct gender pronouns. Vitally important.

Being 'woke' is just trendy, like wearing a certain brain of sneakers. There's nothing more substantive to it than that.

just like the left anyone who disagrees is a racist or a phobia of some kind.

Get fucked, woketards.

Bahahahaha

Thoughts and prayers. I hope you feel better soon.

To be woke is to be a self-satisfied bigot who thinks their view of the world is the only worth having. It's a new form of fascism forcing us all to conform to how a minority think society should be. I try to be as un-woke and as un-PC as possible (yes, yes...I am a rebel.)

My lord, you just don’t know when you stop.

The word has been misused by those considering themselves righteous and beyond question to the point where ordinary people (not far right, not racists, not misogynists, not any other put down label) just want all of you lot to FUCK OFF! and stop ruining the country

This article seems woke.

There is no left or right only up and down

And there it is: You woke people crying about being called “woke”

I just moved to London from Singapore. None of this identity politics 'woke' ever comes up in day to day life. It's possible if you try...

It's just men being afraid of intelligent women.

It's alright for the enemy to use the word gammon though, of course, c**ts.

Nahhh, just reclaiming it from the Left

Nah, it was used by a small part of the left for a mindset and ideology that's repulsive to almost everyone. So it couldn't help taking on negative connotations. Now it can only be used ironically or as a term of abuse. It's a normal process, that's how words shift meaning.

The woke Guardian who are so woke they don't even realise they're woke (so technically, they're un-woke) complain that the 'right' has weaponised the term which is commonly used to designate those who are so driven by ideological zealotry that they're blind to common sense.

If so, it wasn't that difficult.

tHE rIgHt hAvE wEaPoniSEd tHe wOrD ‘WOKE’

Written by a lefty.

When you're so woke that you reach levels of wokeness beyond the regular level of wokeness and become a woker woke but they attack the wokes.

By the RIGHT? Really 😂😂🤣

'Woke,' is the new 'politically correct.' 'Politically correct' was the new 'liberal.' Of course all of those will be weaponized by the Right.

Parody account?

I think only cunts use it. Which pretty much sums up the ‘left’ and ‘right’

Saying 'was' like it's actually happened - and isn't just an opinion of the author of the article - doesn't make something actually true. Classic wordplay. Bore off

Most black or people of colour couldn’t really care about the word woke. We’ll call racism & racist connotations out when we see it. The right wing rags such as the Daily Mail have just got smarter. Yes white privileged dickheads like Fox and Morgan recently have a louder voice!

Shocker from the guardian

Could you Explain what it means

Looking at Piers Morgan's tweets and the responses, all of those people don't seem to have the faintest clue what woke means and many even seem proud to say they're not woke.

Are you Woke on the Head or Broke in the Head?

Is some of the anti MM stuff in the media racist - Yes, is most of it because she’s a bit of a twat - Yes. Is it racist to point out someone’s opinion is lesser than yours because of the colour of their skin (white privileged male comment) - Yes. Is balance possible for most - No

Stupidity has been weaponized by populist politics & it isn’t a new trend. For modern context see thegreathackdoc HindsightFiles. For historical context study the drug trade over last few centuries & see/read jlpotash’s ‘Drugs As A Weapon Against Us’. gamification politics

I had to look it up about a year ago when I was called woke.... I thought I was just trying to be a half-decent person at the time. Apparently, being half-decent is a big no-no in some circles.

I assumed the term 'woke' was a rightly contemptuous reference to Tankie conspiracy theorists who insist (alongside the far-right) that everything, particularly uprisings against dictators by non-Western peoples, is a CIA plot & urge everyone else to 'Wake up, sheeple', i.e.

This article does not explain how woke was weaponised by the right. It just restates that it has. I believe you can do better Steve.

In self defense, was how it was weaponized. Be mindful with the words you use, both Left and Right, because eventually they're used to describe you. They're how your house is built. This article is ridiculous, btw, but I guess as a classic liberal I'd think that.

Like how the word gammon is being used as derogatory racist term by the left 🤷‍♂️

How identity was weaponised by the left.

Really?!?!

No it is used and abused by the left

You don't have to sleep if you stay woke.

😂

'Woke' is a term used by leftists to make other people feel like shit because they don't believe in the same things as them. It was then used by the right as a term of ridicule because it's so meaningless.

The dynamics of this are hilarious. You're talking about two different contexts on a spectrum like it's one context. So you both think you're right. The spectrum of ridiculous to righteous.. You know you're right thinking about one end, they know they're right thinking about the

Whitemen Only C/Kan Enter

Well. Yer either Woke or Broke. In the head.

Rather more interested in how the word 'Corbyn' weaponized the centre against an actively socialist alternative to Tory rule...but that's for another day I guess.

This left and right divide is growing daily. We need unity in the UK not division.

i think it was weaponised by the radical left.

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David Harewood calls out ‘irrelevant’ Laurence Fox for black actor commentsFox has been widely criticised for his views on race and woke culture David who ? Poor Laurence Fox LozzaFox simply doesn’t know when to remain silent! Fox's comments were more relevant though, I guess they get in the way of this left-wing push for Africa to be migrated to Europe.
Source: The Independent - 🏆 80. / 59 Read more »