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Originally Posted by downquark1

Many years ago I was accused of degendering someone when I referred to them as "they". This was on an anonymous forum with no actually indication of what gender they were. I think it was to provoke a response so I just ignored it.

In such circumstances I use "he/she" or "him/her". The woke brigade haven't yet picked me up on that.

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Originally Posted by Hugh

Well, if you google "Telegraph woke agenda", you will get 832,000 results, so that might be the source (average readership age is 61)...

The Telegraph's (et al) campaigns against what they term "woke" is just their latest in their efforts to stoke outrage - in the 70s and 80s, they did the same against Feminism, in the 90s and 00s, it was against the "Gay Agenda", and they just repeat the same tactics decade after decade, trying to make their readership feel threatened and outraged, because things aren't "the same as they were before, when everything was idyllic*.

Also, having a "culture war" is useful for distraction from actual important problems - the Conservatives have been in power for 11 years (nearly), have an 80 seat majority, most of the media slavishly reprint their viewpoints (from a Downing Street/Government source), but somehow the right wing views are "oppressed".

*if you were a white middle-class straight male.

What's wrong with being a white middle-class straight male?

You may consciously feel that you didn't say there was something wrong. But the sneer was definitely there by associating Telegraph readers such as myself with right wing views.