I feel like there’s a pretty big set of center-to-left people for whom the positive notion of wokeness is spoiled by particularly egregious behaviour of, say, “woke Twitter.” (for instance, I suspect many are eager to move on from “mansplain.” And let’s not forget people bullying Lindsay Ellis for comparing Raya and the Last Dragon to Avatar; that was fucked up.)

If we can deftly arrange for “woke” to redirect to that kind of peripheral stuff, and extract the important stuff – protections for minorities, diversity and inclusion, etc. – under some new label, then yeah I’m content to leave “woke” in the past.