"Woke" is a colloquialism roughly analogous to "politically correct", not literally "awake" as in "woke up"; what they're trying to say (I assume, I'm not them or psychic) is that the problem is purely one of people manufacturing outrage over something innocuous, similar to eg, people claiming that using the standard Lena image for image compression examples is sexism.

This concern is older than this term and even older than this usage. What could "woke" as misused by the latest reactionary movement possibly have to do with it?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/woke-meaning-o...

I'm not sure I'd call social justice "reactionary", per se, but:

> What could [that sense of "woke"] have to do with it?

Because you asked (well, expressed confusion about) what sigzero was trying to say, and it's pretty clear that's the word-sense they were using?