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"Wokeness" as defined by the people who use it is not a religion (and it's not extreme). It's just pejorative word for diversity used by people who believe in white supremacy.

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That's a blanket statement you're making coming from your own biases that people who don't agree with woke ideology must be white supremacists.

I very much dislike woke-ism and I don't support white supremacy, and I'm also not super-rich. I very much dislike woke-ism because it's a political movement that tries to get people to ignore reality in favor of its dogmas and it often uses authoritarian tactics to do so.

Yes, when I say "woke-ism" I'm of course not using the word "woke" in its original non-pejorative meaning. But I can't think of a more precise, widely-understood word to use to refer to this social movement.

By your description you sound like you're woke as well. You're just less passionate and have a different approach. I think it would be benifitial to mingle with other woke people so that your different approaches kind of balance each other.

Just like Social Justice Warrior (SJW) before it, woke is a term that those it applies to gave themselves as a positive descriptor. It only took on a negative connotation with the general population when the people applying that descriptor to themselves kept acting in abhorrent ways. It wasn't "white supremacy", it was the behavior of the SJWs and now "woke" that created the negativity. And whatever term they come up with next will likewise quickly become tainted with negativity that reflects the activities of those who wear that label. Not sure what you think you gain by trying to gaslight people who have for years seen both of these labels self-applied by those who later have tried running away from them once their behaviors caught up with them.

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