I am not looking to pick a fight or get flamed. I think the whole Gina Carano thing is ridiculous and speaks to the overreaction Bari points out. Like Bari I haven't seen a Star Wars movie since the original one 44 years ago, didn't know who Gina Carano was before this sad circumstance and probably never would have heard of her otherwise.

But I am having trouble understanding the problem with being "woke" in its original sense, not the pejorative its been turned into.

As a gay man who graduated from high school in 1971, I appreciated that many Americans "woke" up to the discrimination against homosexuals. While it may not have ended the loathing by many, it put a good deal of the hatred in the closet where it belongs and laws were changed or created to address the problem.

As the husband of a Black African immigrant, I am glad that more people are "waking up" to the injustice and discrimination foisted on citizens of color and non-white immigrants, many instances of which I have witnessed with my own eyes and ears. (It may seem trivial, but when my husband and I went into a high end restaurant last summer in a North Carolina town, the place went dead silent as everyone turned to stare at us. I won't even get into his run-ins with white law enforcement officers.)

Is it good "woke" or "bad woke" to be outraged at a Trumper wearing a shirt glorifying Auschwitz and stating "six million weren't enough" and wanting to cancel him and his ilk? Is it "good woke" or "bad woke" to recognize that in this day and age of social media and indiscriminate thought that there is a loud and dangerous segment of our population that believes in white supremacy and privilege?

All forms of political ideology or social consciousness (including wokeness) can be taken to unacceptable extremes. That doesn't make the core substance a bad thing.