There's a peerless meme on social media which sticks a stiletto up the idiot nostril of the anti-woke league. It spoofs the old Ladybird books.

On the cover, a boy has hitched open a car bonnet. "This engine is woke", says the speech bubble. The mock-up book is titled: Everything I Don’t Like is Woke: a Book for Basic D**kheads.

If you tootle over to the Reddit website, where folk ask questions about every subject under the sun, you’ll find a page called "What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever seen described as ‘woke’?"

It’s one long point-and-laugh at the puce-faced puffins who evacuate into their underpants over anything which doesn’t accord with their 1950s Pathé News version of reality.

Here are some examples: the novel Frankenstein was called woke by the tabloids because the monster is portrayed as a "misunderstood victim"’. Spoiler alert: the monster is misunderstood. That’s Mary Shelley’s point.

Or there’s the poster for the film of the computer game Legend of Zelda. It’s woke as it features a girl. Spoiler alert: Zelda is a girl.

Then there’s Rage Against the Machine. Their lyrics are woke, apparently. Spoiler alert: it’s Rage Against the Machine.

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