Re: A well worn story.
The MAGA crowd stole Woke from its original owners and turned a virtue (being awake to injustice) to a failing and an insult.
They did this to political correctness, which was originally a term for doing the right thing politically, and instead it's now an insult.
Your last line is correct and a rule I now follow, as soon as I see the word I stop reading, and if it's on Twitter I mute or block the person who typed it...