Journalism, 2020: Feminist Warns Of 'Dangerous' Rise In Men Who Won't Date 'Woke' Women

The anti-woke, anti-women movement which Laur*nce F*x has appointed himself as a poster boy for is dangerous and shouldn't be ignored. New for @Refinery29UK on how hostility towards women feeds into far-right ideas https://t.co/iiZJyycf4T

— Vicky Spratt (@Victoria_Spratt) January 21, 2020

Laurence Fox [...] does not date "woke" women who he believes are being taught that they are "victims", irrespective of whether they are right or not. He thinks that it’s "institutionally racist" to tell the story of the First World War in a racially diverse way, irrespective of the fact that Sikh soldiers absolutely fought for Britain. And he also doesn’t believe in white privilege, irrespective of the fact that he works in a painfully undiverse industry, was privately educated and comes from a wealthy acting family which is nothing short of a dynasty.

Fox is denying racism and sexism, irrespective of whether or not they exist. It’s nothing short of gaslighting. It’s all very Donald Trump.

"To call me a #WhitePrivilege male is to be racist, you are being racist"

Laurence Fox speaks for us all when he is says he is sick of the race narrative rammed down our throats by the chattering classes, media elite and disconnected politicians. ENOUGH!pic.twitter.com/3nj2grWbWw

— Darren of Plymouth 🇬🇧 (@DarrenPlymouth) January 17, 2020

This is the comment that @LozzaFox is currently being pilloried for. Not a denial that Sikhs fought in WW1, nor a complaint that they're portrayed in 1917. But a relatively mild objection to token wokeness being jarringly shoehorned into movies. pic.twitter.com/vcpaJqkc6K

— Damo (@concretemilk) January 21, 2020

Fox is a case in point that what might start as playing devil’s advocate by wandering the streets in a MAGA cap to provoke "hipsters" can quickly turn into something more sinister.

The far right itself can be difficult to pin down because it isn’t exactly a coherent global movement with a concrete set of ideas. It largely exists online, in Facebook groups, as Twitter accounts, on YouTube and anonymous message boards such as 8chan. But every now and then, their bile spills out dangerously into the offline world.

In 2016 the Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered by far-right terrorist Thomas Mair who, 25 years before he killed her, told a far-right magazine that the "white race" faced a long and very bloody struggle. And it was 8chan that hosted the manifestos of three mass shooters who killed scores of people last year: the El Paso shooter (who left 20 people dead and many more wounded only a couple of weeks ago), the Poway shooter (who opened fire at a synagogue in California last April) and the Christchurch shooter (who killed 51 people at two mosques in New Zealand last March).

Susan Faludi wrote about the link between violence, anger and anti-feminism prophetically in her book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women back in 1991.