{"id":23118,"date":"2023-04-17T02:40:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T02:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=23118"},"modified":"2025-04-24T01:44:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T01:44:42","slug":"anti-woke-folk-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=23118","title":{"rendered":"Anti Woke Folk Club&#8230;UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Post Update : April 23\/25 from April 17\/23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-bright-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a4ff8dcc2a46d92a33b89db5679ce3d9 wp-block-paragraph\">Edited News Sources: CTV News &amp; CBC News April 23\/25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Poilievre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Poilievre.jpg 630w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Poilievre-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-bea5641cea353943422fdd3a873b7e7b wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#0466a8\">Pierre Poilievre poses as proud anti woker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The Conservatives have updated their English Language Platform&nbsp;to include the party\u2019s promised crackdown on \u201cwoke ideology.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201canti-woke\u201d promise intends to \u201cput an end to the imposition of the woke ideology in the federal public service and in the allocation of federal funds for university research.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-yellow-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-31dbde036ad085d7a775b532664c9488 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#bb0e04\"><br>But what does he mean by \u201cwoke,\u201d exactly? The Conservative leader doesn\u2019t seem keen to define the term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, the Canadian Association of University Teachers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.caut.ca\/latest\/2025\/03\/caut-alarmed-conservative-party-platform-research-funding\">expressed concern<\/a>&nbsp;about how the Conservative Party&#8217;s commitment could impact federal funding for research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/politics\/government\/pierre-poilievre-says-he-ll-end-woke-ideology-he-isn-t-saying-what-that-means\/ar-AA1Dn53S\">recent interview with The Canadian Press<\/a>, the association&#8217;s president Peter McInnis&nbsp;said: &#8220;When you get politicians saying they&#8217;re going to come in and interfere with this on some basis of, I don&#8217;t know, ideological issues or political expediency, that&#8217;s the concern.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">McInnis said the word &#8220;woke&#8221; is now &#8220;so vague &#8230; that it could mean anything. It just means things that they don&#8217;t agree with.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-yellow-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-461f982be37316db6a4ac57194a0714d wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#c31107\">\u201cYou can see the concerted attacks right against a whole slew of American universities by the Trump administration,\u201d he said. \u201cSo anything like that happening in Canada would be very destructive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Court-Painter-anti-woke-folks.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23125\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:1000px;height:750px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Court-Painter-anti-woke-folks.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Court-Painter-anti-woke-folks-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Court-Painter-anti-woke-folks-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-bright-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-ea315315ca18e04cc42320a7ecc64067 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Court Painter reluctantly painted pictures for the Anti Woke Folk Club clubhouse<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The use of the term &#8220;woke&#8221; in a political context originates with Black activists in the United States in the early- to mid-20th century and used as a term of vigilance, calling for greater public awareness of racial discrimination.The term has been used within Black communities&nbsp;in North America for decades, it gained prominence in the wider public discourse during the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.In the years following, people started applying the term more broadly to&nbsp;awareness of other social issues, such as sexism, poverty and the challenges facing LGBTQ + people.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/anti-woke-folkclub-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23123\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/anti-woke-folkclub-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/anti-woke-folkclub-2-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/anti-woke-folkclub-2-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-yellow-color has-dark-brown-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-dade0420cc326e8e6cb6f2eb86676ac2 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Pierre Poilievre and Marjorie Taylor Green are proud members of the Anti Woke FolkClub<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Pierre Poilievre the Great Dominion&#8217;s aspiring prime minister, leader of the federal Conservative party and devoted anti progressive took to the podium at the local ANTI WOKE FOLK CLUB and was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cWoke is designed to divide people by race, by gender, by ethnicity, by religion, by vaccine status, and any other way they can divide people into groups.Then you can justify having a government that can control all those groups. We need freedom.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Pierre Poilievre and many on the political right apply the term woke as a pejorative and are proud Anti Woke Folk Club members. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/anti-wolk-folkclub.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/anti-wolk-folkclub.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/anti-wolk-folkclub-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/anti-wolk-folkclub-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-yellow-color has-dark-brown-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-bdf28fad6d2baddca82c5fc9a791af92 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Pierre Poilievre and Marjorie Taylor Green reach across the border to find common agreement on establishing an Anti Woke Folk Club<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/anti-wolk-folk-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/anti-wolk-folk-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/anti-wolk-folk-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-yellow-color has-blue-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-a70b1528da89d0a10466332c508b094c wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Marjorie Taylor Green and Pierre Poilievre  conducting an anti woke  puppet play<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post Update : April 23\/25 from April 17\/23 Edited News Sources: CTV News &amp; CBC News April 23\/25 Pierre Poilievre poses as proud anti woker The Conservatives have updated their English Language Platform&nbsp;to include the party\u2019s promised crackdown on \u201cwoke ideology.\u201d&nbsp; The \u201canti-woke\u201d promise intends to \u201cput an end to the imposition of the woke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=23118\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anti Woke Folk Club&#8230;UPDATE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23118"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29522,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23118\/revisions\/29522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}