Are you sure that's the bulk of it?

Of course, this has been a fear that has come up again and again and again throughout the history of the United States. If it were to rear its head again, that would hardly be a surprise.

But the word "woke" has been appropriated. It also has been used, first by its supporters and then more vehemently by its detractors, to cover a kind of far-left illiberal attitude towards justice, where for instance the distinctions between speech and violence are unimportant, as are distinctions between actively engaging in evil and merely not fighting against it strongly enough.

Nowhere is this at its more obvious than the "punch a Nazi" idea, where the idea is that it is morally justified--maybe even a moral obligation--to enact physical violence against someone who is in the wrong, maybe because they utter the wrong thing, like "I believe we should judge people on the content of their character."

(Note: very few people actually punched a "Nazi". It was mostly an aspirational goal. Because if you actually punch someone (1) they might punch you back, and (2) you might be arrested for assault.)

Though there is a tenuous thread of reasoning that can be used to justify this sort of move to violence on the basis of ambiguous evidence in certain exceptional cases, the vehemence of policing of language and behavior can rub a lot of people the wrong way completely independently of any idea about what black people might do.

And my read is that this, not fear of black awakening, is the dominant cause of anti-wokeness. Of course, like everything, people take it to excess, organize around it tribally (including the black-awakening-danger people), and then are in danger of all believing the same ill-examined rubbish like "black people are (uniquely) dangerous". (Humans are dangerous. Crikey, are we dangerous!)

Do you have good evidence to indicate that your view is likely to be the dominant factor? I confess that I don't--just the algorithm-sculpted exposure I have to social media, plus the personal interactions I have with people in a highly liberal area. (Plus a few tangentially related studies, but they really are tangential.)