Nick Cave says woke culture has a “lack of mercy, a lack of forgiveness”
nme.comNick Cave has criticised woke culture for its “lack of mercy” and “a lack of forgiveness”.In a new interview with The Guardian, the artist discussed the public’s misunderstanding of his politics after he called himself “temperamentally conversative” in his memoir Faith, Hope and Carnage.Cave went on to deny he was a Tory, saying he had never voted for the party – however, he identified with the phrase at large. “Conservatism is a difficult word to talk about in Britain, because people immediately think of the Tories,” he began. “But I do think small-C conservatism is someone who has a fundamental understanding of loss, an understanding that to pull something down is easy, to build it back up again is extremely difficult.”He also addressed accusations that he was “anti-woke”; in 2019, the singer said he was “repelled” by wokeness and its “lack of humility”.
In his Guardian interview, Cave clarified that “the concept that there are problems with the world we need to address, such as social justice; I’m totally down with that.”However, he specified that he didn’t “agree with the methods that are used in order to reach this goal – shutting down people, cancelling people.”“There’s a lack of mercy, a lack of forgiveness,” he said. “These go against what I fundamentally believe on a spiritual level, as much as anything.
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