Woke culture, a nasty development of political correctness, is based upon introspective contrition, a Leftoid psycho-political strategy which uses guilt, and whites are particularly vulnerable in this regard, to reinforce Leftist political domination. This is seen in all areas of policy, such as race, immigration and the gender agenda. It is used as a political weapon to silence opposition, and of course, with the march of the Left through the legal institutions, and judges are lawyers trained in Leftist law schools, laws now support woke. The suggestion of an article in the American Thinker.com, is to just reject wokeness, which I agree with, but unless one is self-employed, open defiance now is going to be dangerous. Certainly, this system of oppressive thought will self-destruct in time, but it will pull down much of the fabric of existence of the West. But, that is what happens when things are let go for decades. The Big Fight should have been in the 1960s, rather than the Great Surrender.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/just_say_no_to_the_guilt_trip.html