That made me chuckle... :D

I'm frugal, not a hipster. I don't have that much money to blow on useless crap.

Place is kind of the same, but maybe a bit touchier.

Woke shit, is joke shit.

I think the word has become a polarized divider in the tolerance debate.

I strongly empathize with minorities that want fair treatment and live their lives free of harassment, though things like the sanitization of science, history (with all its warts) or the arts do bother me.

Given that this position doesn't align well with either sides of the divide, I refrain from using the word as I feel it doesn't describe me (in affirmation or negation), or a significant proportion of the population for that matter, well.

To me it's more like just another ism, only without the actual -ism. It seems that with the advent of the internet we collectively went back to calling each other names like we did in the kindergarten, taking words that previously had meaning and turning them into meaningless slurs. Or maybe we were like this all the time and the internet just uncovered this facet of our psyches, I don't know.

I wholeheartedly agree.
For some reason, a bunch of folk feel the need to use these silly labels for other folk, when really they should wake up to themselves and their blind biases that show very little understanding of the bigger picture ... just kindergarten mentality really.