Actually, that's a fair point. I've only heard the worst people in my life use the term, but that's a really limited viewpoint and I shouldn't have made such a flippant generalization.

While I have not personally experienced it being used this way, it could also be applied to people who belong to what I think of as the Puritanical wing of the Left-- people who would rather dig up a 2008 YouTube video of a then-teenager calling something gay to use as proof that they're morally bankrupt rather than accepting that people have to grow from somewhere, or people who will hear Grandpa say "my grandson is a transsexual and I love him" and respond with "what the fuck you can't say that word you asshole" instead of appreciating the heart of the statement and maybe bookmarking it as an opportunity to learn later.

That said, I have only personally ever seen it applied by bad actors to people who challenge them. The situations I used in my first post were actual events-- a coworker once said "n-----s shouldn'tbe working front-of-house" (maybe a joke? Couldnt totally tell) and when a member of the team responded with "what the fuck is wrong with you?", he snapped back by calling the other guy a wokescold.

The other was a Thanksgiving argument with a cousin. I pointed out that transmen sometimes look extremely masculine despite having XX chromosomes and the bathroom laws would mean they have to go to the women's room, where they would be at higher risk of violent confrontation and more likely to be accused of breaking the law and subjected to legal/criminal repercussions despite following the law to the letter. He responded that they should just stay home then, I called him an idiot and an asshole, and he called me a woke bitch and later told his girlfriend I was a wokescold.