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Are you me? Do we work at the same company?! The palpable fear and walking on eggshells as you described perfectly mirrors my own experience. It was so "unbelievably childish and pervasive". Sometimes I felt like the only sane person, alone on an island.

Again mirroring your experience, it’s nowhere near as bad as it used to be. My opinion is this decline is tied to "once it can be named, it can be damned." Once people started calling out "wokeness" and laughing, general online leftism lost some of its power. Things as simple as retorting with "CURRENT THING, pronouns in profile" with a laughing emoji have proven powerful on Twitter. You can also see the visceral reaction from being called out. The only ones hurt by using the word "woke" are those who are "woke" themselves. It's an easily identifiable defense mechanism.