Tory party chair Oliver Dowden says we should stop “obsessing over pronouns” in “vacuous” speech
Tory MP and party co-chair Oliver Dowden called out what he referred to as “woke” ideology for weakening the West. In a speech to the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing US think tank, this week, the former culture secretary said we should stop “obsessing over pronouns”.
He added that being “woke” was a “dangerous form of decadence” hurting us at a time when “our attention should be focused on external foes”. “Rogue states are seeking to challenge the international order.
And at the precise point when our resolve ought to be strongest, a pernicious new ideology is sweeping our societies,” Dowden stated. “It goes by many names.
In Britain, its adherents sometimes describe themselves as ‘social justice warriors’. They claim to be ‘woke’, awakened to the so-called truths of our societies.
