Are The West In The Grip Of The Woke "Mind Virus"?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7kpvndyyxo

 

[jackthehat]

Odd decisions are certainly being made by those with power over the rest of us.

I think they are the ones in the grip of the WMV and the remainder are being unwillingly dragged along, being expected to comply to evermore nonsensical mandates and being threatened with 'the law' if we don't.

Perhaps God ought to consider a reboot of the entire planet?

[ToraToraTora]

...I'd settle for a redsicovery of common sense JTH!

 

[Peter Pedant]

Odd decisions are certainly being made by those with power over the rest of us.

no I think it is Trump and Musk thinking  "I am not rich enough" 

[douglas9401]

No need to go along with the gobshite moronic nonsense.

Just refuse to comply with twattery and watch them splutter.

[ToraToraTora]

yeah doug but you dare say man can't have a womb and you're "cancelled"!

[ToraToraTora]

.....or the worse possible crime "deadnaming"!

[douglas9401]

Pay no attention to all of it, it's just noise.

[Mozz71]

I have to be honest, I'm happy to listen to Musk if he was offering advise on technology or finances, but when it comes to politics, he really needs to concentrate on his own country.

[Clone]

"Civil war is inevitable" … "Britain is going full Stalin"… "The people of Britain have had enough of a tyrannical police state".

 

 

All true.

[drmorgans]

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cge922jn1z8o

 

[Old_Geezer]

"and the harm that it caused them"

🙄

Yeah, the ICUs are full of 'em.

[renegadefm]

We're only victims of woke if we let it. 

Look at how woke has erased certain comedy from us, even edited books. 

It was all not intended to offend anyone at the time, but suddenly now it does. 

We need to get a grip on it, before we let it put a grip on us. 

 

We have too much of an influence from America these days, we need to rewind back to the 70's, and start again. 

[youngmafbog]

//We have too much of an influence from America these days,//

Well hopefully we get the next four years in the States bought over here then!

As for the wokery, it's just right-on Metropolitan liberalism.  A minority of these right-on thinkers have infltrated places where they can wield the most power, education, politics, Police and Judiciary.  

As said above all we need to do is stand up to them, and if it does come to a fight they will loose big time - and they know it.

[barry1010]

The editing of books is not 'sudden', it's always happened. 

 

[youngmafbog]

Yes, but its the way it is done thats in question.

[Old_Geezer]

More to the point is that we should be past primitive thinking and actions by now.  Censorship is something that needs a powerful justification. Not simply lack of conformance to the authority view, or may be disapproved of by the oversensitive.

[Khandro]

Musk was born in South Africa ten years after it left the British Commonwealth, but his parents will have taught him of his past family  connections to Britain. His mother was born in Canada - also with British connections. He has (as far as I know) no connections to the USA other than becoming a citizen.

Why should he not feel ties with Britain, and why should we not feel glad that he does so?

 

[barry1010]

I find it confusing that in this 'woke' world morals and self respect seem to have disappeared 

[davebro3]

I went off Musk when he called the Thai cave diving rescuers "paedophiles". He's probably insane.

[davebro3]

Megalomaniac