Thread by @SteB777

1) This is Orwellian dishonesty of an incredibly extreme type.

Let's get this clear, there is no such thing as "political correctness" or "wokery". These are entirely fabricated enemies to justify oppressive power grabs and changes to the law.
theguardian.com/law/2021/dec/1…

2) "Political correctness", "wokery" or "woke culture" do not exist. There is no ideologies of these names were progressives are plotting to impose these ideologies on people. It is as I say a complete fabrication, an invented enemy that doesn't actually exist.

3) This is why I call it Orwellian, because in both "Animal Farm" and "1984" the dictatorships invent imaginary enemies and conspiracy to justify oppressive measures. This is exactly what Dominic Raab is doing here and arguing.

4) Whilst being over 60 and unashamedly progressive all my life, I have yet to encounter any progressive person arguing you must say or do that to be "politically correct" or "woke". Neither of these terms have ever been any sort of ideology in the way implied.

5) The impression given is there's some sort of ideology of "political correctness" or "wokeness" and an attempt to impose it on everyone by force. The only way of spreading such ideologies is through speeches or written arguments. Where are they, where is the evidence?

6) None of these ideologues spouting on about "political correctness" or "wokery" as if they are verbatim fact can produce one iota of evidence to back up their claims. I say the reason is because they are liars.

7) It is quite incredible that in the UK, we see the Secretary of State for Justice spouting fabricated conspiracy theories as a justification for implementing a sinister power grab and to utterly change the society in which we live.

8) It isn't a conspiracy theory that the Nazis used fabricated conspiracy theories to justify such power grabs, because that is what they actually did and there is hard evidence for it. Here we see it happening again.

9) This is on the back of a of the government's Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which will essentially make protests illegal, with up to 10 years in prison for any one who takes part in a banned protest.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

10) This government is also trying to push through an Elections Bill, which would require Voter ID and disenfranchise millions of people.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

11) Only a few weeks ago Kenneth Clarke a Conservative Party Minister under Margaret Thatcher, John Major and David Cameron warned we were dangerously close to an elected dictatorship.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

12) In other words, the only real evidence of a conspiracy is that of this government trying to impose an authoritarian dictatorship on us, by fabricating none existent conspiracies as a pretext for this power grab.

@GeorgeMonbiot