It shouldn't be considered "woke" to treat people with dignity regardless of who they are or how they present themselves, and I think most people do that. There

It shouldn't be considered "woke" to treat people with dignity regardless of who they are or how they present themselves, and I think most people do that. There are people on the fringes of many of these social issues, we can refer to them as "woke" and "anti-woke" who either think that these are settled topics and there can be no reasonable discussion besides agreement, or that they have a license to be horrible to people they disagree with. Control of the conversation by either fringe is perceived to have the power to push this middle ground in their preferred direction, or at least make it seem like the fringe narrative is more popular than it is, and I think the loss of some measure of this power is why some other commenters in this thread have referred to this as "war" *(including myself referring to "culture war") Really, it was a mistake on my part to use the word "woke" because it is such a lightning rod, or at least I should have balanced it with my negative opinions about "anti-woke" as well.