What's the point?

When woke ideology enables convicted male rapists to claim to be female so they get sent to women's prisons it's not pigeonholing the issue, it is both horrifying and hilarious all at once that we have ended up in that situation. Let's be honest, some of the gender identity nonsense is the absolute pinnacle of 'woke'.

That's why it is important to keep highlighting the absolute ridiculousness of it all and that is why it was fun to watch the poster girl for that particular strand of wokeness, Nicola Sturgeon, squirm when reality struck. That issue is a perfect fit for the Wokism thread imo.

Maybe some of those who once bought into the madness are suffering from a sort of buyer's remorse now that they see real life ramifications from the ideology they cheerleaded and they don't like to see that pointed out.

There's been more activity in AH in the last few weeks than there has been in the last 20 years. The fact a thread has been made about it speaks volumes. @and in the morning Diamonds of Frost has made some valid points which you should take on board.

You are hammering home the point I’m making.

If After Hours is shooting the breeze and lighthearted posts then posts like yours and the discussion you are referring to, don’t belong there. It’s highly charged political stuff which is always going to read as very angry.

While you may feel the topic is suited to Wokeism thread, is the Wokeism thread suited to the After Hours Forum?

There’s absolutely nothing lighthearted about the topic, there’s nothing lighthearted about your post, that’s clear.

After Hours may need to find it’s identity, someone else mentioned that it’s currently a “one captures all” forum but it needs a direction. it’s either lighthearted or it’s not.

Thats one for the Mods.

You don't think it's light hearted, fair enough.

I do, and those two Sturgeon interviews that struck a chord with you are possibly two of the funniest clips I have watched for a long time.

These woke ideologies must be lampooned at every possible opportunity, otherwise what crazy laws are going to get passed in the future.

the only angry people in that thread are defenders of woke ideology

I dunno if you’re only dipping in and out of the thread that you don’t see it, but that’s definitely not true. Only a couple of posts previous to the recent closure was the whole thing about trigger warnings, and that’s only the most recent example.

Anyone new coming into the thread could be forgiven for thinking the thread was a catharsis for people who wanted to rant about the latest obscure thing which popped up in their social media feeds, much less ‘funny haha’ silliness, and more ‘how dare they?’ sort of stuff that is designed to wind people up who take that stuff seriously.

There was also a thread "my wife is dying" there was talk of moving it at the time , but the consensus was "don't be a d1ck" and the thread brought out the absolute best in posters.

Seriously it really shouldn't be this difficult. Just don't be a d1ck!

My point wasn’t about trigger warnings themselves, I was responding to your comment that the only angry people in that thread are defenders of woke ideology. That’s what I was saying clearly wasn’t true, because it isn’t, given the posters OTT reaction to what was just the latest example of wokery.

The thread is littered with examples of posters taking the whole wokery thing far too seriously, well beyond the point of treating it as a joke or being able to have a laugh about it. It comes off like it’s only supposed to be a laugh and it’s not supposed to be taken seriously when anyone questions what is patently BS.