The linked article doesn’t go into detail about why there was an attempted right-wing takeover so here’s a TL;DR from this Guardian article:
Restore Trust opposes what it describes as a “woke” agenda – including National Trust displays about slavery and historical figures – and has said it wants to steer the charity “back to its core purpose of looking after our heritage and countryside”.
[Restore Trust] was led by a group of longstanding National Trust members “who are concerned that the NT has abandoned its original remit and is now, like much of the charitable and third sector, pursuing a politically motivated ‘revisionist’ agenda”.
How dare the National Trust, who owns more than 200 historic houses, want to teach people about history? /s
It’s just blatant vice signalling. So, yeah, glad to see this attempted takeover failed.
Edit: Brevity.
The way these people complain about the ““woke agenda”” reminds me of antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jews secretly being in control at every level of society. The banks are woke, the government is woke, industry is woke, charities are woke, NGOs are woke, the church is woke, etc etc.
It’s absolute dogshit.
I heard that woke figures in key positions meet at their secret woke clubhouse where they discuss their woke evil plans on controlling the world and making everyone woke.
Honestly I want to start the secret society of woke, not because I expect it to get a single influential member, but because just existing will make every right wing nutter blame every single thing on the secret woke society 😄
It should be called “The Secret Woke Society”. Tagline “sh don’t tell anyone, it’s a secret”.
The office address should be opposite Tory party headquarters, and there should be a big satellite dish on the roof, for talking to our international woke operatives.
Really go to town on it. Go way over the top. Let’s see how mad we can get them.
The first rule of Woke Club…
…be awake
“It’s a secret. Everybody welcome.”
vice signalling
Not seen this before. Nice neologism!
I’m lefty as fuck but I don’t think it’s appropriate to use the guardian to describe a “right wing takeover”. Guardian can be as biased as the daily mail on most days
Is it inappropriate? I’ve been clear with what source I’m pulling from, so if the Guardian is biased then people can take these quotes I’ve provided with that knowledge in mind.
Fair enough, “appropriate” was incorrectly used
So you will contort your ideas to be neutral even if truth is biased?
No one is truly unbiased, even if they think they are
What would your preferred terminology be?
This isn’t a Guardian article, unless I’m missing something?
It’s discussing the guardian article linked in the parent comment of this chain
“Participation in the organisation’s AGM hit record levels this year” - Nice! I saw on Mastodon some discussion about how it was actually important this year.
I think we have been in the NT for about 12 years. I have voted twice. That was for the last two years.
