The weaponization of the term woke when paired with liberal or whatever pejorative modifier is unoriginal and weak. Woke means acknowledging the negative effects of white supremacy on BIPOC people and the institutional racism that handicaps all parties.
Denying race (I don’t see race only people!) is a harmful myth. It directly impacts every aspect of our lives every day, minute to minute. It’s a survival strategy for minorities and a warm blanket of absolution for comfy whites to sidestep race.
Most division is purposely fostered by cynical elites using blunt and sophisticated instruments to foment open class warfare, while edging the populace with rhetoric and provocation that drives a false narrative of conflict they are insulated from if and when it happens.
Well worded bullshit but points for academic an/or neo-Marxist jargon. There IS an actual conflict played out in a million little controversies. It's not false and when its sought to be applied to law, local ,state or national, it's as real as real gets.
And how can something be both blunt and sophisticated anyway?
There is no opposite of woke except the insulting and implied asleep. Only the truly intellectually arrogant can presume that they are so unique, so special that they know what the main of society has in its intents and minds and subsequently hold the superior view. Even while the notions of white supremacy are challenged, historically and culturally disproven, even if not completely released by those who gain by sentimentalizing it, there is no static wall of mean society to tilt against by a REASONABLE person.
Decolonization makes sense to a point, in terms of seeing perspectives, but when you consider we do in fact live in a science-based Euro-centric reality, it truly has its limits. No, all the Europeans aren't going to go home and no, that native people aren't going to all live in tee-pees and huts and live in harmony and nature. No, we aren't going to go over to a matriarchial tribal system because it must beat the one we have.
The most extreme result of decolonisation would be the dissolution of the American constitutional system, because it was birthed by Anglo-centric founders, who are found wanting by the day as the statues come down. This plays into the hands of traditional Marxists. If anyone is using a blunt and/or sophisticated weapon, it's the Marxists using woke-ness to weaken the system we live in for an imagined alternative of "true democracy and social justice." They are definitely fomenting the perpetual stuggle they seek that fosters in the next phase. And our foreign enemies love our internal destruction as well.
All people live in a continuum of time, realization and evolution, not a dichotomy and most people, if asked, would consider woke-ness to be an extreme manifestation of good intentions gone power-mad. Most people think, for example, that the renaming of SF schools in the way it was attempted defied some common sense of process and consideration of everyone involved. Even the mayor, you know, London Breed who is certainly not a cornerstone of white supremacy.
Further, woke is also about gender issues, regarding the male power structure and not just about race. And it has its extreme manifestations when we reach the point that something somebody said in high school is grounds for job dismissal (that Teen Vogue woman).
the simple fact of trying to alter the entirety of society because a tiny number of snowflaky people might have their feelings hurt or feel triggered is the largest flaw of wokeness. I understand and endorse the sentiment to a point, but I also understand that a certain amount of resilience is important for human survival. Everybody cannot win simultaneously. People are not always fair, rational or peaceful in their words and behaviors. At a certain point, you have to let people be people, not expect to legislate everything to an absolute standstill for the sake of some tiny minority. Suspending a kindergartner for making a pointy-finger gun does NOT MAKE SENSE to most people.
As for denying race, the notion of "not seeing race" is a pitiful minority of the left's characterization of the right. It's more of a Stephen Colbert gag than the mostly-abandoned temporary meme among the right. Sure, you still get a few chuckle-heads that try that bullshit, but I'm right there with everyone to call it out.. Most right-wingers are very conscious of race and we have all witnessed that. They will live to rue their decisions to stick with Trump unless we really do fall apart for good as a society because social evolution is not on their side.
I am not denying race, but what people can't handle is seeing beyond, when multi-racial people OR formerly-cited minority groups become pluralities (such as Hispanics in California) that are so substantial that seeking to apply the dichotomy of white dominant society against everyone else is outmoded. So many more people understand this that the stubborn insistence on sticking to it also rankles.
Frankly, we are down to a tiny core of people, most that I know personally are actually in San Francisco that simultaneously defend woke-ness and deny the adoption and decrying of cancel-culture for it's similar extreme attitudes and unrealistic standards of purity filtering.
Your ranks are so very thin that liberals and conservatives alike basically agree on how foolish you all are and that it's a form of extremist behavior. Sure Fox-hounds pounce on it as an issue of conflict, but a lot of worthy Democrats have fallen by its sword as well (Al Franken comes to mind, that guy was well on his way to becoming a great senator imo, even though he had to learn it on the job).
I don't like being confrontational but enough is enough with wokeness. It needs to return to its ivory tower and not be manifested in legislation, comfort animals, constant increases in genders et al. It's whimsical and destabilizing, at a time that we need to unify against Trumpism.
I love me some Filipino food, but Jollibee is awful. I'm still sad the one at 4th and Howard closed down. I was happy to know that it was there being awful every day. 
