{"id":2293,"date":"2021-02-20T07:56:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T07:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/20\/johnsons-kulturkampf\/"},"modified":"2021-02-21T12:48:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T12:48:46","slug":"johnsons-kulturkampf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/20\/johnsons-kulturkampf\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson\u2019s Kulturkampf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu&#8217;s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/2021\/02\/18\/from-folklore-to-wokelore-how-myths-of-britishness-are-turning-totalitarian\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Myths of Britishness Are Turning Totalitarian<\/a> shows how culture is currently weaponised in the UK to enable a right-wing government that engenders a condition of disillusionment and delusion leading to the sort if paranoia seen in the US. Jukes and Matharu view this as calculated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>The War on Woke won\u2019t improve Britain\u2019s pandemic response or ameliorate its recession, heal its social divisions or growing poverty, nor solve its rupture from its major trading partners in  Europe. It will just make things worse. But, as the delusions of exceptionalism fail (which they are bound to because they are delusions), the explanation of betrayal, the \u2018stab in the back\u2019 and the foreign enemy, mounts.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/2021\/02\/18\/from-folklore-to-wokelore-how-myths-of-britishness-are-turning-totalitarian\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Byline Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu&#8217;s How Myths of Britishness Are Turning Totalitarian shows how culture is currently weaponised in the UK to enable a right-wing government that engenders a condition of disillusionment and delusion leading to the sort if paranoia seen in the US. Jukes and Matharu view this as calculated. &#8220;The War on Woke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microblog","category-on-the-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}