“Peak Woke”

Students and debating coaches say high schools are seeing ‘decline’ in debating after judges’ criteria have become riddled with ideology

US high-school debating is under threat because judges who will only approve Left-wing arguments have “created a culture that stifles free speech”, insiders have claimed.

Students and debating coaches told The Telegraph that school communities were seeing a “decline” in youth debating because tournament judges’ criteria have “become riddled with political and ideological” statements.

Berlin’s recently appointed conservative mayor has said he will refuse to use gender-neutral language in office, insisting he wanted to use a language “that everyone understands”.

Kai Wegner, who became mayor of the German capital last month, signalled in an interview with the Bild am Sonntag a readiness to dispense with gender-neutral language altogether in the city’s administration, although appeared to later backtrack after coming up against strong opposition to his remarks.

Why do the woke hate Ron DeSantis? Because he’s making it harder for them to control your kids.

Just when you thought the woke couldn’t get any weirder, now they want the right to cause psychological distress to your children. How else do we explain their agitation with one part in particular of Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s Stop WOKE Act – namely, the bit that forbids schoolteachers from making kids feel ‘guilt, anguish or other forms of psychological distress’ on the basis of their race, gender or national origin?

Addressing the Liberal Party convention in Ottawa last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked some of the criticism his government has gotten lately from the Conservative opposition.

“They either say investing in Canadians is a waste of money or that our policies are too woke,” he said. “Too woke?”

He continued, directing his gaze at the TV camera perched on a riser in the middle of the room: “Hey, Pierre Poilievre. It’s time for you to wake up.”

When English courses go woke, do you stick around or do you go do something else?

The English major of a decade or two ago or today is very different. Within a fairly short span of time the traditional way of studying and analyzing texts has mostly been sidelined at universities in favor of identity politics readings. Look at the UCLA English courses and you’ll see a once respected department where half the courses are about race, sexuality, and assorted wokeness ‘lenses’ filtering out the actual books.

This has become commonplace and it’s anathema to anyone who actually loves words and books.