You have 5 options:
A) You stay quiet.
The problem is that you will keep getting bullied.
This is the strategy normal people use most of the time and it doesn’t work.
B) You try to argue with them or insult them back.
It doesn't matter how good your argument is or how smart your insult is. If they can't say something smart, they will just say: "NO YOU". You are alone and they are 5 so you loose just because they are more than you.
C)You fight them back.
If you fight them back, they will call you an "animal", even though they have physically abused you. Also they are more than you, so you will lose anyway.
The "woke" starts rioting, the media calls them heroes. The right tries to defend itself, the media calls them "EVIL NAZIS"
D) You go and tell your teacher, that you are bullied.
The teacher does nothing, because it benefits them to do nothing.
E) You become one of them.
This is the only solution if you want to be left alone. Problem is that you will lose yourself, and you have to completely lose yourself, or they won't accept you.
The bullies and the woke mob are maybe the same thing, people from "disadvantaged groups" fighting against "advantaged groups", facilitated by the authorities, whether it be media, police or schools, no matter how unjust it is.
Online I don't engage, not worth it.
In real life I pretend to be clueless but keep asking "honest" questions that make them uncomfortable. But since I'm acting like I'm interested they can't quite blow me off, but at the same time they can't answer the questions because I know the real answers are all bad optics, so I make them dance.
An easy way to do it is ask them to define any of their motte and baily buzzwords "diversity" "inclusion" "equity" "representation". We know they mean "anti white anti male" but that doesn't look good so the NPC will vomit some word salad and hope nobody notices. They retreat to the motte when they say a definition then you can refute their policy positions easily using their own words.
Then I keep to my story of saying I don't understand, can you help me and repeating my questions. Until they get exasperated and go into "not my job to educate you" or "cis white male shut up" which loses the normies in the audience.
Fortunately I don't work at a big corporation and am not on social media so that is one less attack surface for them.
I sometimes say my experience with racism is some blacks are incredibly racist and you can do nothing back as that would be "racist", this cannot be good surely, that is enough for any of them to think I'm an insane racist.
Chapter 11 of White Fragility is good for this. I like the poetic nature of it, since Chapter 11 of Mein Kampf is the most infamous. If you can push the conversation that way, you can start asking why DiAngelo tells white people to stop having empathy for people outside their race.
C is the only option. Force the tyrants to expose themselves. Anything you have to lose will be stripped from you eventually; the least you can do is stand up for yourself.
Tactical, performative placations are acceptable as long as you continue to manuever on the enemy. Don't go full Ludendorff by throwing yourself into the meat grinder without strategic and operational objectives.
Well, eventually. Doesn't work in school. You get expelled. And it's hard to fight when your tormentor has the full backing of all authority and is bigger than you individually and in numbers.
Is that really a loss?
Uh no. You completely forgot the method that actually works...
"That's the difference between you and me, Morty. I never go BACK to the carpet store."
I was bullied. I was bullied for a long time. I kept building the whole time. Now I'm shopping for house on Lake Huron and contemplating what kind of boat I'm gonna get. Because fuck bullies and fuck the opinions of others. Focus on your goals. Focus on you.
I've done that, I have much more money than most people (in the 1st world) will ever have and I'm not 30 yet... but how the hell do I go about finding some trustworthy decent people in the world today...
Why?
For what purpose?
I'm ok alone most of the time but don't all humans need some "connection"?
And we don't have that online?
I can say with no exaggeration that the best community I've ever been part of, was a nullsec alliance in EVE Online.