That is one of the most preposterous things you've ever written. Nearly half your output on this forum has been to complain to others about how "the Wokes" - a largely imaginary conspiracy of all the people who say or believe things you don't like- have done to offend you lately. Including this thread.
Lol. No. But it is symptomatic of wokism, and how the word "offended" is starting to lose all meaning. There's nothing in my posts that have anything to do with me being offended. What I object to in wokism is it's Maoistic tendencies. How it's bullying and abuse, just like within the Jehova's Witnesses you have to join in on the theatre or you will be cast out. I'm for gun regulation because it's saves lives. Not because guns offend me.
I'm one of the evil Wokes, of course, in your estimation. Hell, TomC thinks I'm the actual devil. Yet, I ask, how many threads have I started just to complain about people who upset me?
I don't think you are evil. But I think you are doing evil. To paraphrase Steven Weinberg
“With or without woke, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes woke.”
The social mechanic of Maoism has popped up many times throughout history and whenever it become mainstream it's ended in disaster. It's seductive. Policing what people say is super easy. It's super easy to be on the front line being a crusader against (perceived) evil. But the moment people stop speaking freely they're not communicating at all. Which robs us of tools to solve any social problem, and makes the society extremely easy to control by whoever sits on the power. It was in Calvinist Geneva, Revolutionary France, Soviet Union, Islamic Iran, Taliban Afghanistan, ISIS etc. It seems to be distressingly easy for any society to get sucked into this ideological maelstrom.
I don't want to be alarmist. I don't think woke will take over. I think it's power is already waning. I think we've had free speech and liberal democracy for too long in the west. But a huge problem with Maoist movements is that it creates a reaction, a social resistance movement. Let's call them conservatives. They can be exceedingly dangerous. I think Trump is a good example. Or Boris Johnson. They're just as dumb and simplistic as the wokes, and are also on a crusade. But a worse crusade. These two polar opposites feed each other. The more one side grows, the more the other side grows.
That's my problem with woke. It's not about me being offended.