I woke to a Woke Nightmare

Bigotry is the new Inclusion

Far from new. It's simply dressed in new clothing. Hypocrisy is as old as behaviour itself. 

I Woke Nightmare

I woke to a Woke Nightmare

And I was running through the street

With mini flaming comets and comments zinging past my head

Accusations and demonisations

And I thought, how can this be happening?

I know I’m white and male and straight

But I’ve done so many decent things

I’m a decent person.

And then I realised that so many of my 'dreaded ilk'

Were similarly of my disposition

And always were

And then it clicked that the opposing demographics also

Were of the same ilk,

And that 95% of them were also decent people

And that the 5% of arseholes

That we all suffer through

Were of all colours and genders and everything else

Despite the opposite of which I’d heard so much.

And then I realised that the truth didn’t match

The singular cries of hysteria

And It clicked.

That’s all it was

Hysteria

Based on a sexism and racism I didn’t believe even existed

Until Now.

 

I woke

But the Wokeness continued

Until the finger pointers got their way

As that’s all they wanted

In the first place.

 

A power hungry creed

Using suffering

As currency.

 

April 2021 

Apparently 'isms' have divisional values. It's okay for one. Not okay for another.

Call me old fashioned, or new fashioned. I'm against bigotry, in any form. Simple.

The word hypocrisy entered the English language approximately 1200 with the meaning "the sin of pretending to virtue or goodness". Today, "hypocrisy" often refers to advocating behaviors that one does not practice.

Anthony J. Langford Books | Australian writer

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