Ashley James Has The Best Explanation For What 'Woke' Actually Means

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Graeme Demianyk is a news editor at HuffPost UK, and is based in New York. As well as being night new editor, he has written extensively on the Grenfell tower disaster and the UK's housing crisis.

has received widespread praise on social media after posting her definition of what “woke” means following a recent TV clash.Gyles raged about “woke” culture creeping into the NHS after he claimed he was informed that nurses have to use the term “chestfeeding” instead of breastfeeding.This is where Ashley stepped in to make clear her fellow guest’s claims were “not true”, and explained what the guidelines actually referred to.

Ashley went on that the government are “stoking culture wars”, adding: “The term woke actually does mean being alert to social injustice. That can only be a good thing. After calling for people from more diverse backgrounds to stand as MPs, she said the term “woke” was being “weaponised, just like the term ‘snowflake’”.She continued: “Actually it’s the people who fear wokeness that seem to be the snowflakes because they’re getting offended by words.

 

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