This is where woke religion goes completely off the rails. One’s sins against wokeness must be understood in the most absurd, hyperbolic language. Catholicism calls such behavior scrupulosity, in which the sinner makes his or her sins into something much greater than they are.
The woke examination of conscience and the ridiculous ways in which one must atone for his or her sins demonstrate the ideology’s true character. It is one of mental and emotional immaturity. It reflects the vulnerability and instability of the leftist adherent, who understands his or her identity as deriving from culturally conditioned (and thus transient and precarious) categories.
There is no transcendent or objective dignity or meaning here. In truth, it is not the Trump voter who requires metanoia, but the woke disciple living in a phony alternate universe that, as Jacob Frey and Jessica Krug so sadly prove, brings only irrational self-hatred and destruction.