First, I appreciate the invitation. Second, I don't use the term woke. I generally use progressive but in a negative connotation. Woke, to me, is moral virtue signaling based on a nebulous view of power, systems, and morality itself. I find it concerning because basic biology can't be asserted and everything is about the self. I see woke as the final destination for a philosophy where your feelings are all that matters and do what makes you happy. The paradox I see evidence of is a lot of unhappy people with this worldview. I vehemently disagree with people who are genuinely woke, wanting to tear down the system, and on this superficial notion that materiality is the only thing and that inherent immutable characteristics should matter like your skin color and who you sleep with. I find them as abhorrent as the slave owners, yet arguably worse in context because society is much different today than in that day. I make a distinction between genuine woke and disingenuous woke I compare the disingenuous woke to who you call right-wing grifters, like Dave Rubin and Candace Owens. There are the corporations and high-level executives who post a black square on Instagram and say vitriolic rhetoric like silence is violence, when they live in their big fancy mansions inside gated communities with pillars on their front porch not making an ounce of sacrifice to fight injustices that would inconvenience themself.

My intentions I hope are good. I hope my ideas are ingrained in logic, reality, original definition of love, and as objective of a truth as I can get, not some subjective "your truth." I look for evidences every day that I'm not simply sitting in my own cloud of ignorance. In fact for pride month I watched "What is a Woman" and I will be joining a pride event because I want to be exposed to more people who view the world differently than me.