Labi Siffre - Into The Light

Brexit, Leave, No Deal & Money

Brexit, especially a No Deal
Brexit
Benefits most
Those thousands of UK citizens
With offshore accounts
In Tax Havens

If you’re not one of these
And you voted for Brexit
You’ve been
Right Royally
Played
Conned
Screwed

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Dr Johnson Was Mistaken

God is the last refuge of a scoundrel

Patriotism merely the penultimate

 

 

 

[ USA  UK  Poland  Hungary  Russia

Saudi Arabia   Ireland  Iran  Turkey

North Korea   Vatican City   Nigeria

and more ...

Theism is Politics

That's all]

 

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Woke To Being Politically Correct

Politically correct (as brought to general public view) began as merely pointing out that words have meaning and subtext; and that sometimes the subtext can be harmful.

 

For example:

The definition of Homo sapiens as "Mankind"; the harmful subtext being the exclusion of women and girls (approximately 51% of the human race).

The "Politically correct" suggestion was to use "Humankind" in order to describe Homo sapiens; thereby including and respecting women, girls, sisters, aunts, wives, grandmothers, mothers.

 

Outraged by the suggestion that they could be in error, UK right wing oligarch newspaper owners (exclusively male) through the pages of a predominantly right wing UK press e.g. The Sun, News of the World, Telegraph and The Express, re-defined "Politically Correct" to mean "lacking the courage to speak your mind".

 

Incidentally, a Google search reveals the current definition of "woke" as "Alert to injustice in society". To me that sounds like a worthwhile aspiration and more: a duty.

 

Be woke to the fact that definitions can be and often are weaponised. For example, the word "woke".

 

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