Anyone who tells you that the ‘Woke’ era is over, does not know what they are saying.
In the city of Greenfield, in central Massachusetts, a lesbian bar is causing outrage from their patrons by easing mask-wearing mandates. In 2026.
This bar not only requires customers to wear masks, they require N95 masks, at all times. The bar is struggling financially, so the owner decided to make one night a week, Saturday night, mask optional.
Unhinged and angry customers are now accusing the bar of trying to kill people.
This story is from the Boston Globe:
The August 31 Instagram post from Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue, a lesbian bar in Greenfield, was upbeat, teasing a new DJ lineup and a volunteer meetup. But partway down the rainbow-hued post labeled “UPDATES!” was a sentence that would splinter the queer community in this small Pioneer Valley city and beyond.
“It is with love we inform our immunocompromised disabled divas we will be opening Saturday nights as mask optional,” wrote Last Ditch.
Previously, patrons were required to wear a well-fitted KN-95 mask “or better” at all times.
The new policy was not received with love.
“Just say you’re being complicit in a mass disabling event and get it over with,” wrote one commenter.
“people like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience,” posted another.
“I hope your venue gets firebombed for robbing my fellow immunocompromised people of their Saturday plans just to scrape extra revenue from ablists [sic],” wrote a third.
When the bar apologized for the new mask policy on social media, the apology was attacked for not catering to the visually impaired:
Instead of defusing the situation, the apology seemed to make things worse. The bar had erred: it posted an Instagram card without providing alt-text for the visually impaired. This set off a fresh round of accusations of ableism.
“This is not an accessible post,” wrote one user. “It indicates the lack of care or interest in Disability intersectionality.”
People on Twitter/X are marveling at the insanity of this story.
Every person in this article would be put in a mental asylum in the 1950s
Simpler times https://t.co/bYVPlshZGp
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 23, 2026
Everything starts making a bit more sense when you realize that there’s a sizable contingent of the political Left that functionally lives on an entirely different planet from the rest of us https://t.co/CmHHPmQfnp
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) September 22, 2026
A story published in … checks notes … the Year of Our Lord 2026.
Maybe we should just conclude that certain people- and we all know who they are- WANT to stay broken forever. https://t.co/PFqeDwFsx8
— Grateful Calvin (@shoveitjack) September 22, 2026
What a time to be alive. https://t.co/4fIuUMvexe
— Dean Inserra (@deaninserra) September 22, 2026
There are certain places in the country where ‘woke’ is alive and well.
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