Not at all. I’ve self reflected heavily over a decade spent in social work as part of my job and just in general because it’s good for me. What you and I want (presumably) is the same outcome for society, a better more inclusive space for everyone– I’ve just reflected harder on the methodology and the long game. Liberalism is what it says it is. Liberal. New wave woke is pretty much a re-hash of classical Marxism and self indulgent post structuralism. An assertion of subjective truth (this is XXX-phobic) and an appeal to a newly defined concept of class based on identity rather than financial position in society. In short it lets people from the middle class feel that they are both oppressed and fighting the good fight – whilst getting mired down in its own confusing and mixed messages. You’re always the good guy, without ever entertaining the idea that everyone thinks that. When woke moved away from liberal, it ceased to be something most working class people wanted to be involved with. It reflected the interests of a minority and was doomed to fail.

Woke is making things worse for pretty much everyone apart from people in the liberal intelligentsia, I don’t object to the core principles – but there’s nothing liberal about enforcing tolerance with a vast swathe of intolerance. It’s counter intuitive, but addictive because the way the dopaminergic system operates around the concept of winning. Woke won’t win; it can’t win because it’s already broken into a multi-headed hydra that takes chunks out of itself fairly regularly – and it’s adherents always posit themselves as victims, that will always be the case, the goalposts will just endlessly shift to more and more ridiculous positions.

I’ve done the self reflecting, I’d urge you to do the sociological long-gaming.