- www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025... Stop using 'woke'. Just stop. Everyone. 'Woke' is a magical populist rallying cry *precisely because* it is meaningless. It assembles a coalition of angry people who don't agree about anything much except that they know they're against an abstract something.
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- Exhibit A: no hint of why Carney rejects 'woke' (does he, though?), what it might mean if he did, or how that translates into Irish politics. But 'woke' rigs the game in favour of people who think 'down with that sort of thing' is a complete and coherent election manifesto.
- Especially if you're a journalist, just stop using it. Force politicians who advertise themselves as 'anti-woke' to actually say the very unpleasant things they really mean.