Okay, I have met a few people who might qualify as a "woke evangelist" but only one of them was truly annoying. Most would just bring up topics of their interest that happened in the recent news. The annoying one would get huffy if she encountered something that offended her sensibilities. But none of these people saw "wokeness" as a competition. None of them were striving to prove their superiority and only the annoying one would ever show condescension to others.
Dr. Zoidberg, maybe your issue isn't with wokeness. Maybe it's with some assholes in your personal life. Or maybe the wokeness you have a problem with is a regional issue which isn't quite the same wokeness as it exists in other places. (Or maybe I'm the aberration)
Either way, telling people that they are being assholes is fine by me. I still don't understand your aversion to it. This thread seems to be an indictment against "the woke" (as you see them) because you think they are arrogant assholes. But then you present your alternative philosophy that boils down to "nobody should bother the assholes, let them be dicks in peace and they might go away." It just doesn't make sense, and it contradicts the very premise of this thread which seems to be to let woke assholes know that (in your opinion) their efforts to eliminate assholes are the opposite of productive. But if you truly believed in letting assholes do their assholishness in peace, then where the hell did this thread come from?
An asshole can't address their dick behavior unless they become aware of it. That's why you posted this thread, and that's why woke people point out the failures of others to empathize.
I'm 100% ok with people being assholes. Nobody ever needs to be nice to me, or anyone. I'm super cool with being offended. Nobody should feel forced to invite anybody to any party.
My problem with woke is more along the lines of it being an existential threat to liberal values, democracy and western civilization. Which is a problem. If we have Trumpism on one side, ie a existential threat to liberal values, democracy and western civilisation on one hand and woke on the other, we might find ourselves in the same situation Turkey was in which led to Erdogan's power grab.
If an anti-democratic force are trying to grab power and you have been elected as leader, but you are an opportunistic scumbag who have reached power simply by virtue signaling and making statements every intelligent person sees right through, you might think to yourself, "hm... I can take power here. Who's to stop me?" If you think Middle-Eastern countries are uniquely vulnerable to this, remember that Germany in the 1920'ies was the global epicenter of philosophy and scientific thought.
Middle-Eastern Islamism has a lot of parallels with Western wokism. Both are fine with dispensing with freedom of expression on the altar of moralism and virtue. Both are utterly ruthless when it comes to having a polished public surface. Within Islamism and Wokism leadership is mostly just about parroting popular slogans while having policies utterly devoid of any substance. It's leaders are more concerned about just staying in power for its own sake rather than doing anything worthwhile with that power. They must surely know everything out of their mouth is disingenuous. At this point it's all utter fantasy.
I've been woke. I've been in these circles. I know how the woke brain works from the inside. It's essentially a cult. Endlessly repeat and validate the most virtuous statements. Be extremely critical of those who fail to repeat the most virtuous statements accurately. Invent convoluted theoretical academical frameworks that identify enemies we can form a movement in opposition to (Racism, patriarchy etc). If we can't find people racist enough, we'll twist reality to make them more racist.
It's an extremely dangerous and seductive ideology IMHO. That's why I argue against it so much.
But I don't think we're heading towards an apocalypse. I think western democracy is too ingrained by this point and I do woke will collapse in a whimper and die out. But it might get messy before we reach that point. Political instability and a fall in western prestige and power.
edit: In the Covid thread on this forum I got the impression that there was a correlation between woke users and the lack of respect for basic human rights.