Yet, Cherese Jackson did exactly that, in her piece that I'd cited...she tried to compare marriage equality to racial justice initiatives.

I don't use the term "reverse-racism." I don't believe in its rhetorical misappropriation. Racism is racism. It isn't "reverse"-anything. Racism can be systemic, cultural, and/or social. And, yes, the cultural and social aspects of racism can sometimes be wielded against White people.

I support affirmative action when it's done mindfully and in a targeted way. A lot of affirmative action opponents assume that it is about "filling quotas" or hiring/selecting underqualified and unqualified applicants. In reality, those of us who actually understand the policy know that isn't how affirmative action is supposed to work. If a program branding itself as "affirmative action" contains those flaws, it isn't actually affirmative action. It's tokenism.

As far as your qualms with people using the word "woke" as a pejorative...I consciously use the term "hyperwoke" to criticize how people are taking something that was supposed to be positive and proactive (as we all know, "woke" was originated through Black activism to simply make the public aware of racial injustices and structural inequities)...and they turn references to supposedly being "woke" into new exercises in censorship, thought-policing, public shaming, and pathological misappropriation. *THAT*, in my view, is "hyperwoke." And I'm not having any of it.