blah blah conservative book bans, meanwhile I can no longer take my kids to see anything about Native Americans at the Smithsonian because having exhibits about them at all is problematic: No group of people should have a veto over how or if they are portrayed in museums, and that includes Native Americans.

There is an awful lot to digest in the preface in this link:

https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1419294620417155074

"The vigilantism of widespread gun ownership puts Black Americans in an especially vulnerable position given the brutality and human cost of discriminatory policing."

But... if policing is discriminatory and brutal, then isn't vigilantism comparatively better than otherwise?

re: "wokeness is [like] a religion"

There's one common interpretation of this which is supposed to go "wokeness is a religion, we all agree religion is wrong, so so wokeness is wrong". For various reasons this is an unproductive line of argument so I won't address it further. The other interpretation, which I think is worth at least mulling, is that most of society's institutions broadly incorporate a detente over "religious" claims, even though religions frequently make fairly strong demands on our notions of right action, justice, equity, etc.