In a Twitter thread criticizing the slavery endemic to Dubai, an Omani woman who lives in Germany - after defending slavery - told me using woke jargon that as a white person that I (she assumed I am white based on my profile pic) should never criticize any PoC cultural practices whatsoever under any circumstances. IIRC, she might have even told me to "stay in your lane".
With sincere love and respect to all those among us who want to right the wrongs of history and feel that anything other than full and total commitment is failure... "woke" is a motte-and-bailey doctrine with internal contradictions such that it cannot help anyone who is not already relatively privileged. Discussion of these contradictions is precluded and foreclosed a priori by its fundamental tenets. It was conceived of by elites, is propagated by elites and used by elites to maintain status and control.
