I remember as a young child watching the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was too young to understand that if it was just a wall, why had it been so hard to knock it down?
Complex political structures being beyond my unformed mind, I was a touch too focused on the physics.
But watching Nicola Sturgeon’s sudden fall from grace, and potential collapse, reminds me of how flimsy the wall of woke really is. It is built on ideas that are anything but robust. In fact, it is full of holes. It is also ugly and everyone hates it.
For example, we know from polling data that Sturgeon’s trans policies are unpopular even in Scotland, the one place where presumably some people actually like her.
And so, as with the wokies in general, if their absurd, dangerous, anti-human ideas are supported by so few, why are we letting them stand at all?
The alleged transition of Adam Graham, the face tattooed male rapist, into the convenient female persona ‘Isla Bryson’, thus allowing him to enter a women’s prison, was the obscene flashpoint that pushed the reasonable people of Scotland, Britain, and – in an age of social media – the world over the edge.
Graham was only moved out of a female prison after an explosion of public outrage (for once that word can be used with justification) and the fiasco is said to have left Sturgeon “on the verge of quitting”.
Great news. But even if we do finally see the back of Sturgeon, will the trans madness cease?
Rhona Hotchkiss, former governor of the prison in which Adam Graham was incarcerated, is not confident. She writes in the Spectator:
Will Isla Bryson’s case lead to a shift in thinking? Perhaps for some. Will it lead to a change in attitude from gender ideologists to those who express concern? I doubt it. To those who see no issue with holding trans-identified men in women’s prisons, I am still a ‘transphobe’ and a ‘bigot’ for sharing my fears.
Though she also allows that:
If any good can come from this incident it is surely this: that at least a significant number of those who naively chanted the ‘be kind’ mantra have started to see that this is about much more than kindness to trans-identified people. It’s about reality versus fantasy and, above all, about recognising that sex is immutable.
Perhaps I have been spending too much time with incurable optimist and national security threat Toby Young, but on this issue I am feeling pretty positive.
Yes, we still have disastrous levels of immigration, cripplingly high taxes, virtually everyone is on strike, and economists are saying we’ll be poorer than Poland by 2030.
But when it comes to woke, we are dealing with an entirely pernicious cult that almost everyone hates, which is propped up solely by fear and intimidation.
Once that has been mentally dismantled in the minds of enough people, and once the crowd sees more and more of their number chiselling away at it, we might all realise that the wall of woke can be easily toppled.
All it takes is one big push.
Nick Dixon is Deputy Editor of the Daily Sceptic. You can follow him on Twitter and Substack.
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