This essay by @g_shullenberger on wokeness and its discontents is worth reading.

Ultimately it portrays identitarian politics in a way I’d describe as akin to neoliberalism. Both tendencies have spawned whole academies in opposition, and lost whatever broad public approval they might once have claimed. Yet they remain the organizing fabric of our economy and institutions because no positive alternative has emerged to do the job.

compactmag.com/article/the-pov

CW: dismissal of trans concerns