Waleed Aly is reliably obtuse. Free speech being suppressed by Trumpists everywhere and he is still going on about "woke". Users of "woke" as a pejorative are either fascists or dupes - Aly in the latter category I think. www.smh.com.au/natio... - ThreadSky

johnquiggin.bsky.social • 45 days ago

Waleed Aly is reliably obtuse. Free speech being suppressed by Trumpists everywhere and he is still going on about "woke". Users of "woke" as a pejorative are either fascists or dupes - Aly in the latter category I think. https://www.smh.com.au/national/it-s-midnight-hour-for-woke-politics-20250108-p5l2xg.html

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tammyswift.bsky.social•41 days ago

He doesnt seem to acknowledge how the right have weaponised "wokeness" to their advantage. But still the atrticle makes some valid points.

disirregardless.bsky.social•45 days ago

Every Waleed article is basically "Religious conservative guy has a take"

stringyland.bsky.social•45 days ago

Yeah, he sees the problems then does gymnastics to avoid seeing the conclusions.

mjeeepe.bsky.social•32 days ago

He is as deep as a shallow puddle.

danielcrute.au•45 days ago

The headline and the article don’t really match up here.

johnquiggin.bsky.social•45 days ago

75 per cent of the article is a pointless ramble about Peter Garrett saying something only tangentially related to the issues. The bite is at the end. For once, the subeditor got the headline right.

annkreger.bsky.social•45 days ago

Aly didn’t use ‘woke’ as a pejorative. He explored the historical context of the phenomenon with quite a degree of accuracy & convincing conclusion IMV.

spillanemj.bsky.social•45 days ago

it gets him the clicks

bevbaker.bsky.social•45 days ago

I think this piece from Waleed is a work in progress. He is trying to explore why those who believe in justice, fairness, egalitarianism are rejected as a "woke" elite and the rich, greedy and dictatorial are not.
Why the property-wealthy Dutton is seen as a cop made good but Albo, a class traitor?

lindakconnolly.bsky.social•45 days ago

Amidst all the attempted repression of peace protesters by powerful & establishment authorities to write about a made up “woke” thing “demanding obedience” is just risible.

Very Serious Men being Very Serious & completely fucking blind to reality is peak “The Age”

Dumb Cuntry strikes again