Definitions for the Avid News and Opinion Reader

 I found this on the Spiked-on-line page for 18 December, 2021.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/12/17/no-both-sides-of-the-culture-war-are-not-as-bad-as-each-other/?utm_source=Today+on+spiked&utm_campaign=1639bf4e5b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_12_17_08_39&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b6dc1b7df1-1639bf4e5b-99430094 

Unconscious bias: I can’t find any actual evidence.

Systemic inequality: I can’t find any actual evidence here, either.

Equity: Enforced equality with an iron fist.

Diverse: Not diverse.

Inclusive: Inclusive of different faces, not opinions.

That’s unhelpful: Shut up.

That’s problematic: No, really, shut up.

The wrong side of history: I think the calendar dictates morality.

I think you’ll find that…: I’m smug and condescending.

It really is that simple: I’m exceptionally smug and condescending.

Brave: Conceited.

Transwomen are women: Wouldn’t it be great if all this Monopoly money was real?

I’m empowered: I write about myself. And my tits.

Being woke just means being polite: Shut the fuck up, you fucking fuck.

Patrick West is a spiked columnist. His latest book, Get Over Yourself: Nietzsche For Our Times, is published by Societas.