Despite Conservative attempts to fuel culture wars, there is no such thing as ‘woke’ | Marie Le Conte – The Independent

Category: Culture Wars

I have had to rewrite the introduction to this column several times because it keeps turning into a eulogy of the England football team. It is hard to avoid; they are wonderful men who have done their country proud. In normal times, I probably wouldnt have cared French people rarely tend to want whats best for England.

Still, their pull was irresistible; they were players who cared about each other and about those less fortunate than them. They wanted to win but they also wanted things to be right; who could resist that?

A fair few Conservative MPs, it turns out. Lee Anderson boycotted the matches because of the teams decision to take the knee before kick-off. Brendan Clarke-Smith compared the knee-taking to the Nazi salute. Priti Patel refused to condemn the supporters booing the gesture. After the final, Natalie Elphicke told a WhatsApp group that Marcus Rashford should have spent less time playing politics.

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Despite Conservative attempts to fuel culture wars, there is no such thing as 'woke' | Marie Le Conte - The Independent

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July 13th, 2021
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