joe40001 posted... I would say that echo-chamber culture and lack of tolerance towards diversity of opinion has been a bad thing for society and hurt society's freedoms. That isn't purely captured solely by the domain of "wokeness", but it is a non-trivial component.
Wokeness to me, often more reflects things like tropes in movies/shows that are simply shallow and reductive and kinda insult/hurt everybody. Though if I am going to interject my own personal point of view, as somebody who has struggled with severe clinical depression and mental health for most of my life, I certainly don't appreciate a show/movie implying that I'm a piece of shit simply because of my race or gender.
The worst thing about wokeness seems to be it's unwillingness to entertain any challenges or criticisms. IIRC Kendi pretty famously refused to have any sort of debate on his ideas. The core ideas of wokeness seem to largely work at a pretty shallow intellectual level in which they come up with arguments and policies with little to no evidence behind them, advocate for them as "anti-racist' and then claim on artificial literal construction level that people opposed to them are "anti-anti-racist" and thus racist. And frankly I'm surprised that such a gambit works on anybody older that 5 years old.
But even in engaging the question about my views on wokeness I'm somewhat playing into it, because the concept of "woke" is not sufficiently precisely defined to discuss too much. There are likely many policies that I support that might reasonable be called woke. So likely the more fruitful questions are more specifically defined.
That's a lot of words to say no.