Tony Atkinson
Jan 20, 2022

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Prior to the emergence of the term 'woke', I used to refer to such people as either 'silver-spoon socialists', or 'duckspeakers'. The first because of their middle-class concern for social reform and equality in preference to economic change. The second (which is Orwellian) for their tendency to blurt out a string of rote-learned aphorisms, truisms and catch-phrases without once thinking about the actual topic under discussion. Now I use 'woke' because I'm fed up of explaining what I mean by the other two!

For the record, I prefer 'duckspeaker', or even in some cases 'doubleplusgood duckspeaker'.

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Tony Atkinson
Tony Atkinson

Written by Tony Atkinson

Snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, walker of paths less travelled by. Writer of fanfiction. Player of games. argonaut57@gmail.com

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