Some people genuinely believe in these things. I met a lot of lefty weirdos at house parties in California who would explain these ideas to me with nothing but

Some people genuinely believe in these things. I met a lot of lefty weirdos at house parties in California who would explain these ideas to me with nothing but love, even though they knew I did not agree. But we still drank and ate together and enjoyed the party. I would call them "woke", but not malintentioned. The people using these things as cudgels are not the same as the people who just believed they were describing the dynamics of the world. It seems similar to me as the difference between early Christians, and the much later elites who would go on to sell indulgences while imprisoning and hacking off the heads of people who wouldn't agree submit to the regime in both thought and action. Maybe I'm splitting too fine a hair.