Woke thinking provides those who run national institutions with a moral mission and a sense of purpose underpinned by a commitment to social justice.

It has introduced a climate of censorship and self-censorship and led to the cultivation of victimhood and dependency. They are concerned about a divisive shift in left-wing politics that risks pitching groups against each other according to race, gender and sexuality. The performance, and its associated, convoluted, made-up language, reflect an engrained condescension grounded on the premise that (other) people are either oppressors or oppressed, victims or perpetrators.Nonetheless, Williams guides the reader through the tangled ideological undergrowth while never losing her focus on the significance of the threat that woke poses. In this way, woke censorship, cancelling and even violence are justified if they prevent vulnerable groups suffering psychological trauma.

The good news is that whenever woke thinking is subjected to free speech and democratic scrutiny, it falls short. Although it didn't tell me anything I didn't already know about woke, except or some historical meanings it does go into depth and detail of how woke has spread so rapidly.Worse, it breathes new life back into racial thinking and emphasises differences between people that were only recently overcome. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. With clear thinking and gripping storytelling, Williams explains how how a minority of the elites in Britain and America were able to intimidate the rest of the elites into silence or complicity, imposing a "revolution from above" that is anti-democratic and cruel. By these means woke activists inculcate a new generation with woke values and separate them from the cultural legacy of the past. They have moved from the fringes of political life to the mainstream and now influence the actions of public institutions, national governments and private businesses.

The tax-payer funded Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), with Race Discrimination Commissioner Chin Tan in the vanguard, is determined to extirpate all vestiges of racism and discrimination — even from among people who say they have no direct experience of either. Meanwhile, in Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon’s Hate Crime legislation could open the door for people to be questioned by the police for expressing views in their own homes. She started working as a lecturer in Higher Education and Academic Practice at the University of Kent in 2007. was the year that being woke – and, importantly, letting people know that you are woke – became fashionable.This acts much the same way as saying lavatory or toilet, napkin or serviette, sofa or settee signified social class in decades past.