The chair of York-based Inclusive Equal Rights UK (IERUK), Haddy Njie, she became woke when she experienced racism herself, and that allying it with extremism and to referring inclusivity as 'woke nonsense' are dangerous developments.
She said: "It is also true that many have turned wokeness into this cool phenomenon which has reduced the positive significant impact it could have. However, being woke is not nonsense and it is certainly not an extremist ideology. We must also call it out when the term is being abused.
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