No, I'm not, because the issues that end up at the forefront of "woke" concerns include a lot of itch-level ones, and also it doesn't include the idea that we want a rigorous determination of what is a really high priority and what is less high of a priority. That's what I was talking about.

Indeed, I don't find the issues you mention here particularly woke-specific at all. These are classic Democratic issues going back decades. For example, the very first (taped) show of Firing Line by William F. Buckley Jr. in 1966 was devoted to...poverty (with Buckley taking the conservative government-should-butt-out-of-it stand, of course; his guest took the opposite position)!

The new ideas now associated with being woke--looking for systemic injustice, favoring narrative over statistics, giving primary attention to traditionally disadvantaged identity groups rather than individually disadvantaged people, the idea that the point is to oppress and make suffer many many people, and so on--these haven't done much of anything to move the needle on the issues above.

I cannot tell you (without writing an article, which maybe I will someday) how disappointed I was that the outrage over George Floyd turned into "defund the police", which apparently didn't actually mean "defund the police" but something else, and which was tepidly implemented mostly as "modestly reduce the budget of the police and maybe think about trying to fund some social something too but we're kinda guessing about what", mostly with the result that disadvantaged people were subjected to more crime. We had the most crystal clear example of how tragically awful our criminal justice system can be, nationwide outrage, and the result was...basically nothing. And it's not because of a "tiny number of people fighting like hell to hold on to them". It's because, in the words of Frederick Douglass, power concedes nothing without a demand.

Well, there was a demand, with a very catchy slogan that was also extraordinarily misleading, and it was a really stupid demand taken literally, and the smart demand was not consistently articulated and so wasn't really a demand but more of a vague wish. Very "fight systemic injustice", but very ill-conceived for actually improving people's lives.

Meanwhile, Obamacare is still delivering health care to millions of people in the United States. That's mattered a lot. I don't know why we don't switch to single payer healthcare like the rest of the world--that would be so much better yet. But, anyway, it's a major improvement in the lives of people who previously were being very poorly served by our society.

If all the breath (and tweets, and books) spent on trying to convince white people that they're all racist, and also that they're the only group that can be racist, were instead spent on talking about what a miracle Harlem Children's Zone is, everyone would be way better off.

There are issues that make a massive difference in people's lives. But being woke doesn't include the injunction to have a laser-like focus only on those. It gives a lot of airtime to itches, too, to "you didn't use inclusive language so you should be fired" and so on, and when it addresses real issues, it does so with all the lack of sophistication and practicality that one would expect from its philosophical and social-media-infused grounding.