Maybe in 2025 being “woke” means coming to the realization that brick and mortar video game stores have about as much future as Blockbuster, and “DEI” actually means “Amazon and Steam”.
And then reducing those classes down to either oppressed / oppressor.
It’s a highly reductive and juvenile way of looking at the world.
GP is right, most of the people complaining about "woke" are complaining about things they don't like, rather than having a particular, coherent theory as to why they don't like them.
And that's your definition of the word. Going by other people who use it unironically, you can't come to a consensus on what it means. Literally anytime there's any sort of representation, people scream woke. Person who use American Sign Language in a video game? That's so woke!
But let's go with your definition of the word. If you're treating everyone equally, while acknowledging and celebrating our differences, what's the issue?
People, who are obsessed with seeing woke in everything, apparently want to view everyone as amorphous blobs.
It's not so much reductive and juvenile as Wizard of Oz exposing the man-behind-the-curtain. Without being able to see clearly, it's not possible to change things to benefit more people.