True progressives are out there fighting current battles. Corruption, bribery, current-day slavery etc. Conformists are out there marching about battles already won like gay rights, slavery in the United States etc.
https://news.yahoo.com/richard-grenell-addresses-rnc-gop-220...
LGBT rights in Poland and Russia are in dire straits. In Chechnya, I think they still deport gay people. In far too many countries, homosexuality is still illegal. Even in the Western world, growing up gay or trans often is associated with a measurably higher level of stress.
Of course, it got better, but it's still not over.
It's about power and is using something people are very unlikely to disagree with to grab at power.
"We're anti-racists, therefore if you oppose us or our actions you must be racists".
"We're anti-fascist, therefore if you oppose us or our actions you must be fascists".
And it's very effective. Just look at the choke-hold it has corporate America in, in particular, at the moment.
Yes, the CRT/Woke crowd learned well from the success of Frank Lunz and similar conservatives in the 80s and 90s.
Their ideology may well break apart the country, but their linguistic propaganda is very effective, indeed.
The fact that this is what "fighting racism" looks like when forced hysterectomies are performed on undocumented immigrants in concentration camps show that it's not really about racism for the people that are doing this.