Do you mean that this person is naïve?
That they are arrogant?
That they label others as “racist,” “sexist,” or “transphobic” too quickly?
If so, then you are troubled by the way they reduce complex matters to a single, dismissive word. But consider this: when you label them as “woke,” are you not doing precisely the same thing?
You take a whole human being, with fears, hopes, virtues, and mistakes, and compress them into one small syllable meant to end the conversation rather than begin it.
Is that fair?
Is it wise?
Is it even accurate?
Could there be another path?
Instead of ending the dialogue with a label, perhaps we might open the dialogue with a question. Instead of assuming the worst, we might ask what they actually mean, and why they believe as they do.
For labels close minds.
Questions open them.
And in a time when everyone is quick to classify and condemn, maybe the bravest act is simply to stay curious.
