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What’s woke this week

14 February 2020

3:00 PM

14 February 2020

3:00 PM

This week kids’ cartoons that will turn your little darlings into global capitalists, Big Brother policing of fashion faux pas, and theatre that can only be reviewed by people of colour have made a splash amongst the wokerati . Why should they be the only ones getting their knickers in a knot? 

Kiddie kapitalists 

What is it with ‘academics’ and kids’ cartoons? Not satisfied with last year’s tawdry traducing of the lovable SpongeBob Squarepants as a colonial racist, now they’re coming for the popular pups of Paw Patrol. 

Dr Liam Kennedy is an assistant professor at Kings University College, Ontario, with qualifications in criminology and sociology.

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