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I prefer how things were 30 years ago. There was more acceptance but less wokeism. Gay people were becoming accepted (in the adult world anyway) but being homophobic wasn't frowned upon either. Non-whites were becoming more respected and the racial slurs were becoming unacceptable but there wasn't any "if we don't have any non-white employees then we'll be called a racist, prejudiced company". People were just people, regardless of skin colour, which is how it should be, not race being nitpicked.
And gender was just part of social norms, which if we as autistics have learnt anything it's that social norms are part of life and the minority can't change it. There wasn't as much pressure on gender as there was 60 years ago, people were more free to be who they wanted, and males and females were beginning to be treated as equals (for example, women's rights), but there were still only two genders; male and female. People have been transitioning genders for years so I don't really count that has wokeism. But with all these new names for all these new genders and not being allowed to say certain things any more and looking at a future where gender may no longer exist, it just kind of scares me.
Humans seem to evolve depending on developed lifestyles that become the norm, and I feel that with gender becoming abolished it might lead to the sex of humanity starting to deteriorate until humans don't need a sex any more, everyone will instead physically become genderless, and it will wipe out humanity. Thankfully that won't happen in my lifetime.
Most people view gender as tradition and part of our culture. I mean, I get why people get excited when they first discover what the gender of their baby is, hence the gender reveal parties. Will gender reveal parties become offensive and be banned? It's boring to say "aw, I'm having a baby person". I like "oooh, we're having a baby boy, paint his room blue!" and "oooh, I'm having a baby girl, paint her room pink!" That's what every pregnant woman I have met usually say. When my mum was pregnant she didn't want to find out the gender until we were born, and she said it was always like a lovely surprise.
It just feels cultural and traditional, that's all. Most people I know do agree on this. Do you see what I'm talking about?

My mom was kinda like your mom, she didn't want a boy or a girl, she wanted a healthy baby.

My mum didn't want one gender more than the other, as long as the baby was healthy, but she still felt excited at the thought of which gender the baby was going to be. When she was pregnant with my brother she thought he was going to be a girl, so she got a surprise when the midwife handed him to her in the delivery room saying "it's a boy!" Then when she was pregnant with me she thought I was going to be a boy. She wouldn't have minded having two boys of course, then when the midwife handed me to her and said "it's a girl!" she was surprised again. Although I've never been pregnant, I can still imagine that "ooh, is it a girl or a boy??" excitement. But I'm afraid wokeism might abolish the "it's a boy/girl!" exclamation in the delivery room and instead just the boring "it's a baby human!" - something you know already. When the last time a character in a TV soap was having a baby I remember people at work were talking about whether it will be a boy or a girl and everyone seemed to be getting excited about it. Although I don't watch TV soaps much I still got caught up in the excitement and I watched the episode just to see. I just think gender is so interesting and exciting. You can't call me a hater for thinking that (not saying you, just in second person).

That discriminates against non-party people.

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I see where you're coming from, but a couple of things I'd bring up.

Many of the same people attacking wokeness now were attacking the tolerance of 30 years as overly politically correct.

Improvements when it comes to sexism or racism or whatever didn't make the problems go away, so the struggles against them had to continue. It's like saying some people should accept being second class citizens because second class is marginally nicer now when really, they're entitled to be 'first class' like everyone else.

People were just people when they tried to talk about being discriminated against, but not so much when they were being mistreated. They were accused of pulling the race card or being feminazis or whatever, no matter what they wanted it was always attacked as too much.

For some reason, everyone knows going backwards on these matters is bad, but a lot of people feel like well, haven't we done enough, isn't a half-assed improvement good enough? and that makes me wonder if they'd tolerate having smaller harms inflicted upon themselves, or if they'd insist that no harms be done to them?

I'd imagine they'd prefer no harms, which is fair. Right now there's people hoping that instead of smaller harms that soon it will be no harms, but apparently that's too woke and smaller harms must be tolerated because the anti-wokes will get angry that change (change that doesn't significantly impact them) is occurring.

My mom was kinda like your mom, she didn't want a boy or a girl, she wanted a healthy baby.

I like "ladies and gentlemen". Just sounds so traditional and formal. Why do things have to change?

What do you think about people being required to say "happy holidays" instead of "merry Christmas"?

How do you feel about people being required to say "merry Christmas" instead of "happy holidays"?

I have never heard of this, but some retail stores require the employees to say "happy holidays" to the customers. They don't allow them to say "merry Christmas." I don't know of places that require employees to do the opposite.

What do you think about people being required to say "happy holidays" instead of "merry Christmas"?

Oh and since Brexit, it's gone back to how it was 30yrs ago.....racist as f**k because the racists no longer have to hide how they really feel about us.

What do you think about people being required to say "happy holidays" instead of "merry Christmas"?

As a side note, Essex is full of racists

Required?

In one of my husband's former workplaces, the only person to send "Merry Christmas" to everyone was... a Muslim Arab.

Who has got offended by Merry Christmas? I'm certainly not offended by it, and I'm an atheist.