Help, I don't know if I'm woke or not!
A few days ago, someone asked me if I was woke. I got the impression that this was a question they had posed to a few different people, usually receiving answers either confirming or denying the respondent’s wokeness. To me, the obvious answer is ‘I’m woke about some things, but not about others’. I think the campaigns by The Times and other British newspapers against transgender people is pretty nasty and concerning, but I think that big companies putting LGBT flags everywhere (especially companies known to operate in countries where they definitely don’t put LGBT flags in their branding) is irritating. I think that attempts to be inclusive can be silly and counterproductive, but I’m not someone who cringes when I see ‘she/her’ in a Twitter bio. I think that attempts to restrict speech on university campuses have probably gone too far, but I also think that lots of the reaction against those speech restrictions is over the top…