I applaud your rather lucid attempt at self reflection. “Self” being as a liberal reviewing a liberal “ism”, and “attempt” because I fear some liberals will not see this as the self-reflection this is meant to be.

In your list of what “wokeism” is, I’ve always only viewed it under definition 1. It’s a vague definition, but I feel that’s all being woke was initially meant to be. After one has realized the fragile nature of our social narratives in general (once one is “woke”), whichever particular narrative one wants to rail against is a matter of personal choice and circumstance.

So I believe the conflation of all the issues that a woke individual may care about is either: 1) a result of not understanding the original, vague premise of being woke, or 2) a malicious, intentional attempt to divide and conquer by spreading the defenses over too wide of a territory, or 3) most likely both.

The right wants you to believe that they’re just dumb raging rednecks. But there are intelligent and sophisticated strategies and tactics being used to pull those emotional strings of “the masses”. They know what they’re doing, and they’re doing it all too well.

Therefore, in the spirit of self-reflection that I believe this piece to be written in, the woke-left must see the strategies being used against it. We have to look to our defenses and plug the many holes in it. Perhaps we should treat woke’ism as the allied citadel where we can retreat to, and treat the particular issues as expeditionary forces and sorties. This would allow us to use our stretched out strength in more focused ways rather than fending off attacks on all fronts.

I detest war and conflict. I detest this metaphor. Yet here we are.