Wokefest

2021, 21 August, Calvin Robinson, "Biden's woke presidency is a self-indulgent luxury the West can no longer afford" (in The Daily Telegraph) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/21/bidens-woke-presidency-self-indulgent-luxury-west-can-no-longer/ The chief culprit has been President Joe Biden. His administration, with the gratingly right-on Kamala Harris at his side, has been a wokefest from the start, whether it was rescinding Donald Trump’s ban on critical race theory-inspired implicit bias training for federal employees on his first day, signing ill-thought-through executive orders on trans rights, or jumping on every other virtue-signalling bandwagon he could find.

James makes a lot of good points. It was pretty terrible - clunky, ponderous and unbelievable. And BBC docs with a few exceptions on BBC 4 are wokefests. And the licence fee is an anachronism. Even Paxo agrees.

2022, 28 March, Louise Boyle, "Oscars ‘wokefest’ has turned off viewers, say critics. Does the ‘DiCaprio effect’ on climate prove them wrong?" (in The Independent) https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/oscars-2022-dicaprio-speech-b2045683.html DiCaprio used his 2016 Oscars acceptance speech to say that climate change ‘is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating’