Ever since Trump’s and America’s victory, leftists have strung together a mile long freight train of strawman excuses to explain the wholesale rejection of woke ideology. Commonly, the broad conflating of policy criticism (we must protect women and women’s safe spaces) with ideological attack personally upon them is a go to move. If you criticize woke policy then you are therefore a hateful bigot. And you must shamefully defend yourself and you must immediately shut up.

Bullshit. We know it, they know it, it’s been reality all along.

Yet, I think we’ve been so conditioned to make defensive counters to “prove” ourselves not “transphobic” (bullshit strawman) that there’s got to be some grace as we retrain ourselves that the defensive reflex isn’t warranted.

I enjoy using this rebuttal:

You’re wrong.

Simple, honest, and accurate. And completely without unearned explanation. As I see it, woke guilt is not my guilt to own.