Simon Henderson – who backs Pride and Black History Month – says the word has become an ‘easy label to apply to things you disagree with’
The head master of Eton College has said that he is “woke” and hit out at people for using the word as a label for things they disagreed with.
Simon Henderson, 47, told a podcast he was “guilty as charged” when it came to being labelled woke.
“If by woke people mean I believe in kindness, understanding, respect, tolerance, treating people decently, trying to have empathy, trying to understand things from other people’s perspectives – then, guilty as charged,” he said.
Speaking to the Big Fish podcast, he added that “woke” had become a “pejorative” phrase that people simply applied to concepts they disagreed with and said that there was no “ideological framework that we’re trying to indoctrinate” pupils with.