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Woke Watch PC UK [Case 1]<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Published: 6 April 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preamble<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This series of posts is devoted to identifying, tracking and reporting on instances of politically correct oppression in the UK, which have become so prevalent and stultifying in recent years that they have morphed into an erosive sub-culture, ironically characterised by self-righteous victimhood and a postured drive for equality. This is the culture of ‘Woke’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stymieing free speech and closing down discussion, liberal elements exploit the false altruism implanted in this credo for the prosecution and inverted moral enforcement of a neo-Marxist creed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assisted not a little by an ideological media sympathetic to their agenda, the hyper-reaction and sheer volume of publicity devoted to issues of race, gender and other liberal hobby horses has discredited the perpetrators and exposed their agenda. It has also caught them in a trap of their own making, the term ‘Woke’ ~ their term ~ presented originally as a victim\u2019s cry for social and racial justice now widely used to identify over-zealous practitioners and self-proclaimed arbitrators of \u2018correct thought\u2019 as defined by neoliberal PC elites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a limit to which even the most tolerant people of the most tolerant country (reference Sewell report) can remain tolerant to daily intolerance and at last legacy Britons appear to have reached that point: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay aWoke to the Wokes folks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If, in a wild and distorted dream or a state of unpardonable and gross inebriation you have even vaguely considered that the \u2018liberal way\u2019 could be progressively good for your country ~ or, for that matter, remotely good ~ let these posts serve as a moral reminder:  Be careful what you wish for! <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Woke<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In my introductory post to this series, Woke Watch PC UK<\/a>, I referred briefly to that recent sorry state of affairs at Pimlico Academy London, where children, jumping on the protest bandwagon, were allowed and encouraged to lambast their headteacher and dictate school policy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pimlico Academy circus and the liberal media\u2019s reaction to the Sewell report on racial disparity are perfect examples of the fostered permeation of a woke cult within the UK and the extent to which this virus is cultivated and used as a mind-altering, psychological weapon in our schools. From the government\u2019s reluctance (some have referred to it as ‘moral cowardice’) to institute robust measures to combat the virulence, hope for an effective vaccine grows less and less credible as each day passes. Unchallenged, systemic wokeness is a source of global embarrassment to the UK in the disproportionate media and political space it occupies to the detriment of real issues, such as unsafe streets and spiralling crime, but is at the very least redeemable in its entertainment value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My attention was first drawn to this farcical piece of nonsense, re Pimlico Academy, when I stumbled upon a report in that most august of intellectual online dispensaries, the Mirror.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headlined, “Pimlico Academy: Angry pupils stage mass walk-out at school’s \u2018racist\u2019 uniform policy”, with the standfirst, “Students and staff are furious over a strict new uniform policy at Pimlico Academy in Westminster, central London, and changes to the secondary school’s history curriculum”, the article immediately set the sirens wailing: \u2018Woke! Woke! Woke!\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the safety of my anti-PC bunker, not having been enriched for some time now, I read on, hardly able to contain my amusement. According to the report, some angry children were having a tantrum in the school playground (for those of you who are not from the UK, an \u2018academy\u2019 is a posh-sounding name for a school; a tantrum is a \u2018peaceful demonstration\u2019). \u2018We want change\u2019, they shouted. I could hear an echo bouncing back at them from somewhere in Britain\u2019s glorious past, \u201cDon\u2019t we all!\u201d it was saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The change that they wanted was not for the drinks machine. They were ~ shall we use a \u2018peaceful demonstration\u2019 word? ~ \u2018outraged\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woke Attack in Pimlico UK!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It may defy belief if you come from a non-PC-crazed background, but in the wonky land of Woke, anybody and anything can be denounced as racist at any time, and somebody with a lot more time on their hands than most of us, but not a great deal of intelligence, had denounced Pimlico\u2019s school uniform as racist. The school uniform was wacist (that\u2019s a cross between woke and racist) because it discriminated against hijabs and hairstyles. The school pupils were also incensed that the school curriculum was not paying enough attention to the antics of Black Lives Matter and were demanding that more time be devoted to Black History Month, like, er, Black History Two Months or preferably 13 months of the year. Durrgh\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mirror<\/em> published extracts from the children\u2019s online post, which, incorporating such terms as \u2018protect marginalised races [and] religions\u2019, \u2018discriminating against\u2019 and \u2018challenging identity\u2019, shows that if they learn nothing else in today\u2019s progressive liberal schools, children are at least well versed in the parrot language of Woke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some went on to excel themselves by taking up the cudgel for the gender disadvantaged. And you have to hand it to them, they had really done their homework on the PC prose of choice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We believe the idea of gendered uniform for all students is a ridiculous, backwards ideal. This ostracises non-binary and gender non-conforming students, or those who are struggling with their gender identity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really, really do wish that I had been armed with this load of old cod\u2019s wallop when I was at school. In those days, if you did not present in the full and prescribed uniform by the time you had chanted \u2018we want change\u2019, you could be guaranteed to have got it, initiated by a swift, stout kick up the arse. The change being a bruise where you did not have one before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woke Attack in Pimlico UK!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Whilst some of Pimlico’s school children were writing online statements, others, true to form, were defacing the school walls with graffiti. Some future university student daubed: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Headmaster Smith should get the sack.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And why on earth shouldn\u2019t he, with a name like that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mirror<\/em> goes on to report that, \u201cthe Guardian<\/em> reported that the school was facing mass staff resignations, a student protest and a vote of no confidence in its headteacher.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It almost sounds like \u2018Hooray’?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Smith is a white headmaster and therefore it goes without saying that he should either resign or apologise, or preferably both! ~ be sent to Devil\u2019s Island, somewhere in the Caribbean or Lambeth, and never again be permitted to hold office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently, the academy\u2019s staff is in such a PC tizz about it all that many of the poor darlings are thinking of quitting their job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helpful school caretaker: \u201cAllow me, I\u2019ll open the door for you!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it is reported that the entire geography department handed in their notice, presumably because they failed to identify that the country where they live and work is Britain. Mind you, it is not that easy to tell these days, is it, not even for a geography teacher?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, I am not sure whether you will appreciate the woke irony inherent in this next quote from the Mirror<\/em>, but take your time (clue, think of BLM and statues and political allegiances).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFormer Pimlico Academy pupil Liza Begum, Labour\u2019s candidate for the upcoming Churchill ward councillor by-election, visited the protest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, she would, wouldn\u2019t she!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Mirror<\/em>, she was proud of the students, adding, \u2018it [the protest] was a peaceful event\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As all such demonstrations, especially BLM demonstrations, are ~ children \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One mother complained that the pupils are not listened to and feel \u2018frustrated and disempowered\u2019 (Congratulations, now you know what most teachers feel every day of their lives.) And wanted to know what this would do for them [the kids] when they left school? The answer being, a great deal of good, I suppose, because in the real world, the world outside of school, getting your own way by staging a tantrum, even if the liberal media patronises it as ‘peaceful’, is not something that Bet Fred is likely to give you very good odds on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, I have intentionally left the best for last, which is that after ticking all the essentials on the woke checklist, as ticked by the children at Pimlico Academy, having been primed to do so by their liberal masters \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n