Reply To: Burning children’s books.

“WOKE.”

(A letter to a friend):

Have you heard of the “Woke” movement?
It is taking over schools and universities.
It is intolerant of anyone against it.
It has many aspects. One is the prohibition of words such as “Man” and “Woman”, “male” and “female.”
In Scotland, a boy was suspended from college for saying there are only two sexes.

Another aspect is the erasing of history, especially colonial history. There are calls for books to be banned and destroyed. Classic films too.

“Woke” people have attacked paintings and statues. Often, they are attacking the wrong things. They want classic books destroyed if they deem anything in them to be racist, imperialist, or sexist.

Seeing as modern capitalist European and American society was rooted in colonialism and racism, this means the destruction of most classic books and films, Tintin included.

I am anti-racist, but I am not “Woke.”
I think “Woke” are fascists. They don’t trust people to make up their own minds about what we look at, hear or read; so they say we have to be “protected” by them destroying things we “shouldn’t” be reading, listening to or looking at.