Woke: A Guide to Social Justice

by Titania McGrath

The successors to the likes of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi are now to be found on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

If you don’t want to be censored, don’t say the wrong things. It really is that simple.

It never ceases to amaze me how defensive Brexit voters get when you point out that they’re fascists.

If nothing else, this entire mess has prompted a new debate about the validity of democracy, which only works if people vote the right way.

The referendum result was baffling for many reasons, not least because the electorate were explicitly told how they were meant to vote and still managed to fuck it up.

Clinton’s plan worked beautifully. She lost the election and thereby retained the moral high ground.

I magine thinking that free speech meant that people can say whatever they want, whenever they want. That’s exactly how Nazi Germany started.

Nobody is going to prevent anyone from saying the right things, so it stands to reason that the only people who require free speech are those who are planning on saying the wrong things.

Censorship is an important tool of any government in order to guarantee our freedoms.

A university is hardly the appropriate place for exploring alternative ideas.

They will brand your views as ‘Orwellian’. For this reason, it’s a good idea to prepare yourself by studying George Orwell’s most famous novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. I recently read it for the first time, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the society depicted therein isn’t quite the terrifying dystopia that everyone claims. There are some very sensible ideas, actually.