![]() ![]() The fashion industry could not abide those. According to the Sunday Times’s John Arlidge, the chief exec, Roger Lynch, who is “socially conservative” was worried about the editor’s more progressive ideas. Before then, Vogue mostly showcased skinny, white lasses. In his six years, he transformed ideas of beauty and style by prominently featuring black, Asian, older, big and disabled models. He will get a “global advisory” role instead. Imagine the outrage if lefties had defaced Margaret Thatcher’s statue in this way.Īnti-wokery, I reckon, has seen off Edward Enninful, the black, gay editor of British Vogue. Good local citizens have now cleaned off the paint. It is of a black woman in a summer hat and dress, on a seat, looking out at the English Channel. An eye-catching sculpture, made by Tschabalala Self, a New Yorker, was installed in Bexhill-on-Sea. The anti-woke cancel culture never quite catches the media breeze, so here are some recent examples. Politics Big Read 'I'd rather children be taught maths than 72 genders': Inside the Tory war on woke Read More The powerful are fixated on the woke, and hellbent on preserving their inherited advantages. You’ll see the anti-woke inciting hostilities against environmentalists, anti-racists, innovative cultural challengers, feminists, trans activists, socialists and other progressives. Step back from the noise and fury, drop these biases, and look. They changed the label and intensified their attacks after the Black Lives Matter and Me Too global movements. I remember well similar slurs against those of us who were politically correct. Three days ago, Ron DeSantis, the wannabe Republican presidential candidate defined “woke” as a “war on the truth”. In our times, woke folk in the UK and US are depicted as sinister indoctrinators, anti-liberal Stalinists, and are ceaselessly upbraided for culture wars, censorship and being socially divisive. ![]() Woke, to me, means activism, a perpetual struggle against cultural ownership, political injustices and establishment certainties. Anti-woke warriors like Piers Morgan and shouty GB News presenters expect their views to prevail, in the name of freedom of speech (Photo: Henry Nicholls/Reuters) ![]()
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