While politics is typically a case of finding a median between two extremes (often swinging back and forth with election cycles), woke-ism has no happy median, it is divisive. But that is because so many people have a decide to side with the righteous side, and don’t really want a solution.

Non-binary solutions are often not hard, just require a more open mind, and some give-and-take.

Woke people say “happy holidays”

MAGA people say “merry Xmas” because god dammit the US is a Christian land!

You can actually say both. “Merry Xmas and Happy Holidays”. Everybody is included, the dominant force is recognised, and no need to be upset. Nobody will force you to say the “happy holiday” bit, but polite people will understand why, just like please and thank you. It shows respect for others.

There are only really two aspects to this. One is greeting people you don’t know, or thanking them, with “sir” or “madam”. Easily fixed, just get out the habit of saying it. Instead of saying “thank you sir”, just say “thank you”. Problem solved, nobody can get offended.

The other is if you will be spoken about publicly, like a well-known person, or someone with a public-facing role in business or society. They should have a media presence that mentions their pronouns, only if they are not the common ones. Just like pointing out to journalists that Ralph Fiennes is pronounced “Rafe”.

Regular folk don’t need to tell us their pronouns, because they won’t be used anywhere they will hear it.