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Those who it does scare are branded as woke, by the right wing press (which includes most of the papers that are not the Guardian).


Media on the whole does a pretty good job of making any valid criticism into issues of "extremists" from the opposite political affiliation. The only people who would ever be dissatisfied with the current state of society and want change are clearly bad and radicalized, so just roll over and wait 26 more months to vote. Stability is mainly something which benefits the billionaires who own all major media outlets, if people start protesting stock prices might go down!


Any citations? I haven’t seen fear of pre-crime enforcement characterizes as “woke” anywhere.

I’m asking because I myself frequently characterize things as woke, and people might accuse me of having right-wing tendencies, but nonetheless I would be very concerned if police in my country started acting this way.


In my (limited) personal experience, left-wing people blame Tories and right-wing people blame "woke sjw snowflakes" for these authoritarian drifts. Seeing as one of this group has been in power for over a decade and the other hasn't... I'm inclined to agree with the former :)




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