The new religion of wokeness.
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Not a fan. No such breakdown can possibly be complete without accounting for feminism. In fact it becomes MORE complete by wiping the whole thing clean and just doing the Intersectional Feminism breakdown, which covers most if not arguably all woke stances. The entire idea of intersectionality was to broaden feminist concepts and the white male oppressor grievance framework out to account for every perceived injustice in society.
Those parts of wokeness feminism doesn't specifically cover don't matter, because scratch a wokey deep enough and you'll find they invariably have intersectional concepts powering their core. Thus you can have entirely new dilemmas pop up, like say the vaccine shit, and the Woke will slot it neatly and quickly into their worldview as an issue of white male politicians screwing up everything, toxic male bullies not being obedient or careful enough, and poor oppressed minorities not receiving enough of the holy messaging or lifesaving needles.
Overcomplicating the manner in which wokeness resembles religion just muddies the picture, and some of it's just doesn't ring true to me such as painting psychiatrists as victims of wokeness(??). At worst its a way of accommodating the obvious thesis ('wokeness is a religion') while trying to whitewash some contingent facts that are uncomfortable for the authors (eg. '...and that includes some of the things I've always believed in').