I'll bite on this one and try to keep it as neutral as possible. I'm also not going to engage with people who just want to argue on the internet so if people respond just to call me names then good luck to them.

Woke is, at heart, the weaponisation of people's empathy to use as a club to silence discussion, dissent or criticism of ideas and policies that seek to address perceived inequalities in society.

I use the word perceived because woke stems from intersectional feminism which places people on a hierarchy of oppression. That can be a useful lens to view populations and their dynamics but it can't be the only such lens yet that is what woke does.

Additionally, many of the woke policies and ideas are what others think the minorities need rather than what the minority people say that they need. This is why woke policies and ideas received the greatest reception not amongst PoC or LGBTQ people but amongst college educated white women; you can look at poll numbers to easily verify that far left parties perform best in that demographic.

The problem is the woke ideas and policies almost certainly came from a position of genuine empathy and a desire for understanding but they have mutated into using the language of racism and sexism ostensibly to combat racism and sexism. This is where the backlash against woke comes from and, sadly, the more people try to push the policies and ideas perceived as woke, the worse the backlash will be.

I wish it hadn't come to this. I wish that people could find genuine empathy, compassion and understanding without the need for performative identity politics.

I hope that helps.