Here's what a woke world looks like - a dehumanised pictogram
Irish Rail were so afraid of the identity mob "coming after them" they were afraid to put a woman or a man on a cartoon ad
Some people like to pretend there’s no such thing as “woke”.
It’s just being kind and decent, they say, and if you’re against that then you’re a bad person. They deny the existence of cancel culture too, insisting it’s “consequences culture.” But who decides on the crime and punishment? How long are the consequences?
Then they'll say there's no harm in making everybody include everyone and be nice all the time, to all people and never offend anyone, ever. Wrong.
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It leads to a paralysed world in fear of making one false move. It means people doing things because they think they should - and they’ll get into trouble if they don’t - not because they believe or even understand them.
Here’s what woke looks like: a black, gender-neutral pictogram.
That’s what had to be used by Irish Rail to tell people not to root in bins, when pussyfooting officials couldn’t decide on an image to keep the Woke Brigade happy. Apparently in 2024, the sight of a man or a woman - even a cartoon one - may set someone off and so an entire operation has to revolve around that possibility.
Irish Rail feared gender identity groups “coming after us” at the notion of a male and a female.
Correspondence obtained by the Irish Mirror this week revealed the extent of this time-wasting nonsense.
A graphic designer spent a week creating images for a sign to stop people rummaging in bins for Re-turn bottles and cans to turn into money.
One showed a man in the bin and the other showed a woman. Big problem.
One official asked: “Will gender identity groups come after us? You know yourself, could be uproar” while another feared a “backlash”.
The pandering discussion was all about fear and repercussions, not any sincere concern of what possible offence could be taken, by who exactly, and on what grounds.
So a sign for thousands of people had to be tailored to ensure a few head-the-balls wouldn’t kick up.
More time was spent trying to de-sex the poor cartoon pickeroony - making the hair mid-length, adding a baseball cap and rotating the body so there was no glimpse of a genital.
The team eventually gave up and went for the pictogram.
One official remarked: “Communication with the public is a political minefield, taking account of all and not causing offence to anyone”.
There was more of it over in Trinity College, where academics were hooraying after changing the name of the Berkeley Library to the Eavan Boland library.
The room had been named after 17th century George Berkeley, Ireland’s greatest ever philosopher.
You know the famous question - If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Berkeley came up with that.
The city of Berkeley in California was named after him.
Just a decade ago, BW - before woke - Trinity held a major international conference in his honour.
But because he had slaves when he moved to America for two years, his name had to be removed from the Trinity library.
To be applying modern standards on a fella born in 1685 seems a bit drastic.
But don’t worry!
Trinity told us they wouldn’t be getting rid of his books from said library, in some kind of effort at reassurance that lent a veneer of reason to an absurd move.
Did anyone think they were going to clear the shelves of his collected works over it?
The brilliant poet Eavan Boland has the dubious honour of having her name over the building now.
She’s the pictogram of this story. A nice, safe, female poet, guaranteed not to cause controversy or offence.
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