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> and forgot that secular morals can run just as puritanical

I'd suggest that it is a new religion being satisfied here, that of 'wokeism'.

>>oska+(OP)
'Authoritarian Progressivism' is a better term going forward I think. It better specifies the set of beliefs and the formality is harder to dismiss.

>>boppo1+p
Cheers. I put the word in quotes to indicate my use was not necessarily an endorsement of the term. And even though it is the most commonly used label and probably the one that's going to stick, I do like your alternative. Yours is probably a better one for discussion of the movement in more academic or formal contexts.

>>oska+(OP)
I prefer waux, as in faux.

>>oska+(OP)
> I'd suggest that it is a new religion being satisfied here, that of 'wokeism'.

It certainly is a cult since it works exactly like one, it has rules, a unquestionable creed ("diversity and inclusion"), struggle sessions where members have to admit their "crimes" in public like "their privileges", a hierarchy between its members (the pyramid of oppression), a caste that is above any criticism whatsoever, blasphemy, lists of forbidden words, and shunning of its members when they do something deemed "insensitive".

>>oska+j3
Thanks! And I agree, 'woke' isn't going anywhere.