Wokeness: — is to behave AS IF only white males ever did anything bad.

Is that right, chaps?
And from that place, — unenlightened

I think the rational response to that would be it's about ANY given "majority." Any given majority needs to be kept in check. Period. Doesn't matter if that majority is white, black, or a race of hyper-intelligent gerbils. If you're a majority, that means you have power, and power is should be fair game to be scrutinized. Any society where power cannot be scrutinized is totalitarian. It's always been that way, since the beginning of time, to right now in 2025. "Heavy hangs the head... (that wears the crown)."

It's literally what the whole Declaration of Independence was about, separation of powers to prevent abuse of power. It acknowledges that men are not strong enough to remain moral and faithful to the ideals that made life worth living and that have given us every invention and human work we use and hold dear—given enough time, opportunity, and/or lack of supervision. That's why I like it. It not only acknowledges but codifies a hard truth without blurting it out brashly and turning people off from it.

That said, this isn't a popular definition because the fringe of the majority (who actually wish to do harm to minorities—or otherwise treat them less than equally because "what are they gonna do"—simply for not being like they are) don't like being told the reality that they're nothing special without their numbers. Similarly, those that have legitimate grievances derived from their state of being a minority also don't like that definition because it's dismissive of the legitimacy of their personal sufferings and grievances (i.e. basically, it's easy to interpret that message incorrectly as: "well, if the situation was reversed, you would be no different so your plight really isn't all that big of a deal.")