The Woke Inquisition

Every post a sermon,
every joke a trial.
Laughter is a landmine now—
step wrong and you're vile.

Eyes scan feeds like scripture,
policing tone and word,
where irony gets cancelled
before it can be heard.

They brandish rules like weapons,
etched in trending tags,
turning nuance into weakness,
and context into flags.

The crowd won’t storm the palaces,
real power lies ignored.
They sharpen tweets for jesters
and call that being “woke.”

A comic plays a prisoner,
mimics guilt with flair:
"Oops, I said the unsayable—now I'm locked up somewhere!"
But the mob won’t face the mirror—
they only see offence.
They trade in moral currency
and bankrupt common sense.

No one thinks a foam kiss
spits hate at someone's race.
No gypsy sauce condemns a life,
no schnitzel knows disgrace.
Intent gets tossed for optics—
a word becomes a sin,
if someone, somewhere, maybe
feels slightly bruised within.

This isn’t care. It’s cowardice
wrapped in a noble pose.
The kind that fears real conflict
but shouts at comic prose.

Yes, some words are rotten—
no one mourns their fall.
But lumping all in one bin
won’t help the cause at all.

To ban what doesn’t praise you
won’t free the world from pain.
It just makes speech a hostage,
and satire die in vain.

Beware the polished slogans
that punish thought and jest.
This path won’t lead to justice—
just silence, masked as "best."
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Comments

Rolph David

Wed 9th Apr 2025 17:21

Thank you, Stephen and Uilleam, for your deeply considered and generous responses.

Stephen, I really appreciate your words. You’ve distilled a crucial truth — that the ability to disagree without silencing one another is the bedrock of any healthy dialogue. Yes, the line between offence and hate speech can blur, but you're absolutely right: shutting down discussion only deepens the divide. Thank you for standing up for nuance in a world so quick to flatten it.

Uilleam, your honesty and humanity shine through. Your reflections moved me — that reminder to look beyond appearances and celebrate the quirks and colours that make people beautifully different. There's far more kindness in a pub glass remembered or a smile on a bus than in a hundred moral tirades shouted online. “Vive la différence,” indeed — and a hearty hear, hear to your final line!

Thanks again, both of you, for reading — and more so, for thinking aloud with me.

– Rolph

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Stephen Gospage

Wed 9th Apr 2025 08:59

A thoughtful, well-written piece, Rolph. We should be able to distinguish between hate speech and opinions with which we disagree, even if they may 'offend' certain people. The line can become blurred, of course, but shutting down discussion is not the answer.

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Wed 9th Apr 2025 07:52

Thanks Rolph.
I must confess to having fallen prey at times to those who use our differences in order to divide us, to those who, on reflection are nothing but bitter and twisted hate-mongers.

The bloke with thighs like telegraph poles who gets on our bus wearing a flowing silky dress and a long blond wig brings a smile to my face, for which I say thank you.

The young lass who works in my local pub, she with her hair dyed all the colours of the rainbow, who sports a nose and face full of ironmongery, who looks like a goth version of the fairy off a Christmas tree remembers what kind of glass I prefer to drink from, a considerate and thoughtful service from one so young.

Since when did any of those people drop bombs on innocent men, women and children? Time to get life into perspective.

Vive la difference, and bollocks to the hypocrisy of the establishment, I say!💗

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