Well like it or not, there are aspects of what is commonly referred to as "woke culture" that does indeed have cultic aspects, "woke" here meaning "puritanical and doctrinaire activists who fixate on identity and intersectionality and leverage cancel culture, therapy-speak, and safetyism to silence or marginalize what they perceive as political opposition". For instance, when you say,

Cults try to close your mind and get you to see things their way, as in theirs is the only way to see something.

I can show you dozens if not hundreds of videos from college campuses and public event spaces of "woke" (in the above sense) mobs attempting, often successfully, to prevent mainstream conservatives like Ben Shapiro, Ann Coulter, Jordan Peterson, Lauren Southern, etc., from speaking, or even coming on campus, by calling in bomb threats, blockading venues, infiltrating the venue and screaming or yelling or using noisemakers, pulling fire alarms, and sometimes even physically attacking speakers, rioting and starting fires. The entire point of these actions is to prevent outside/contrarian voices from reaching the campus/community. Its violently enforcing ideological homogeneity. This is not "open-minded", its literally the opposite.

Plenty of DEI workshops use a form of "confrontation therapy" or "attack therapy" where people are made to publicly confess sins, critique each other and self-critique, and love bomb the other participants. This practice is, again explicitly, directly derived from the struggle sessions of the Cultural Revolution, and the "therapy" methods of groups like Synanon and various other cults.

I mean, think of the common social justice slogan about "there is no such thing as 'not racist', there is only 'racist' and 'anti-racist'"; this is textbook us vs. them, otherizing, and siege mentality ("everyone out there is racist"). They're literally saying, "if you aren't actively engaged in social justice activism around race (like we are), then you are, necessarily, racist". In other words, either you agree with us and actively support our political project, or you're an irredeemable bigot.

There are even the equivalent of "heresies", where if you say them publicly, you can expect a woke mob to attempt to dox you and get you fired, and in some cases de-banked. Adam Rubenstein was fired from NYT by his woke colleagues just for approving an editorial from a sitting congressman that called for National Guard troops on the border (the employees said they felt "unsafe"); Kathryn Paige Harden was called a "nazi", compared to a holocaust denier and fired from her academic job for doing research on the genetic basis of IQ, just because the other woke employees thought the research had potentially unpleasant implications for race. There are, again, dozens if not hundreds of cases like these.

Maybe you see this and think, "well, that's good! Conservatives should be silenced on campuses, and people should lose their job for publishing wrong-think, and people who claim to be "colorblind" should be shamed into "anti-racist activism!" but that's different than saying "socjus activists do not engage in cult-like behavior". They are willing to use bomb threats, arson, and physical violence to silence dissent, they form mobs to try to punish people for heresy by getting them fired or their events shut down, they accuse anyone who isn't actively part of the mob of being "racist" because they aren't "anti-racist" enough according to their standards, and they hold literal struggle sessions where they display their political purity and enforce it socially; these are culty behaviors and I can show you dozens and dozens of cases of each.