The ranks of the reasonable have grown so populous as to be impossible to cite in full. Some backlash commentators are overtly conservative: Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, Victor Davis Hanson, Jordan Peterson. Other outspoken voices have emerged from the left: Meghan Daum, Bret Weinstein, Glenn Greenwald, Jonathan Haidt. Refusing to jump on the post-Floydian gravy train that has enriched Ibram X. Kendi and Ta-Nehisi Coates, several black opinion formers have proved influential, particularly Glenn Loury and Coleman Hughes. (The black linguist John McWhorter is a special case — a fine social observer whose cooptation by the New York Times seems to have taken his edge off.) Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of the few vocal critics of Islam, while Woke World draws a protective circle around the religion and won’t hear a word against even Muslim terrorists. On Substack, Matt Taibbi, Andrew Sullivan, and Bari Weiss are making a tidy living off subscriptions (including mine). Their counterparts in the U.K. — Toby Young, Frank Furedi, Brendan O’Neill, David Goodhart, Julie Bindel, Rod Liddle, Eric Kaufmann — are also thriving.

The intrepid Heather Mac Donald has published a series of lengthy, impeccably researched, and brilliantly written exposés about the wildly exaggerated perceptions of police killings of unarmed black suspects, the self-immolating fixation on diversity in classical music, and the literally lethal affirmative action run amok in the American medical establishment. Christopher Rufo has mounted what began as a one-man campaign against critical race theory in public schools and the biologically warped, sexually explicit gender ideology these schools are imposing on bewildered children.

Prolific contrarian outlets such as Quillette, City Journal, the Babylon Bee, Spectator World, the New Criterion, and Persuasion in the U.S., as well as Spiked Online, The Critic, the Daily Sceptic, UnHerd, and The Spectator in the U.K., have all grown substantial readerships during this benighted era, suggesting that the relationship between Wokism and resistance to it is becoming ironically symbiotic. I can personally attest to the volume of commentary battling identity-politics propaganda, because reading a mere fraction of this material occupies hours of my day.

Multiple high-profile victims of cancellation have landed on their feet. Pushed out of the University of Sussex over her views on gender, Kathleen Stock is now a founding fellow of the new University of Austin, which is formally dedicated to the “fearless pursuit of truth” as opposed to the pursuit of “your truth.” J.K. Rowling’s scandalous defense of biological sex can’t have cost her 20 pence. Woody Allen’s memoir, boycotted by hysterical editorial assistants at Hachette, went on to make a small publisher’s fortune. Railroaded out of Princeton on a pretext after objecting to an open letter that characterized “anti-blackness” as “foundational to America” as well as to the university, Joshua Katz has garnered so much more publicity than the average humanities professor that he can surely write his own ticket at a range of lucrative center-right think tanks.

For me, the most promising development in recent times is what’s allowable to say in print without being immediately disappeared. The Overton window has widened from a mere crack in the wall to a goodly slit. It’s now commonplace to read that the organization Black Lives Matter is financially corrupt. That, while he certainly didn’t deserve to be murdered, George Floyd was no saint but a violent petty criminal. That the agenda of “antiracism” is itself racist. That diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are self-serving generators of unproductive, grossly overpaid make-work jobs, and that DEI has become an industry unto itself (far more so than anti-Woke publishing). That “unconscious bias training” backfires: Rather than reeducate bigots, such courses create them.
Lionel Shriver
https://sapirjournal.org/cancellation/2022/10/can-the-good-guys-win-the-culture-...

Answer: No.

Although they are good guys and mean well.
They are part of the 'culture' that went the 'wrong way' towards a Dead End.
An End so deadly, it would have ended the world in total Thermo-nuclear annihilation as a Mass Extinction event.

...a case of Mother Russia and 'Boy' America converging in a default Cold War of basically Whiteys saying "If you don't give us half the world, we'll blow it up!" - as the possibility of the 'Master Plan' of Whites moving into Asia and the Middle-East to turn the entire Northern Hemisphere 'All White' like a flawed Yin/Yang.
As General Macarthur said in the Korean War: "We are here to kick the Yellow Mongol out of Asia!". He didn't say to where though?

But as we are now seeing. That Master Plan didn't work.
Looks like the Browns get to stay in the Middle-East and the Yellows get to stay in Asia (if not take back more now).

So they mean good. But they belong to an 'old bad way' of life. A case of Darth Vaders men wearing nice clothes and honestly thinking they are fighting for the Good.

They are in essence. Redundant.

After October 7 “in lock-step, the social justice crowd – the crowd who has tried to convince us that words are violence – insisted that actual violence was an actual necessity. That rape was resistance. That it was liberation. Hip young people with pronouns in their bios are not just chanting the slogans of a genocidal death cult. They are tearing down the photographs of the women and children currently being held hostage” in Gaza. “They mock the nine-month-old baby stolen from his parents.

“When anti-Semitism moves from the shameful fringe into the public square it is not about Jews. It is never about Jews. It is about everyone else. It is about the surrounding society or the culture or the country. It is an early warning system – a sign that the society itself is breaking down. That it is dying.

“It is a symptom of a much deeper crisis – one that explains how in the span of a little over 20 years since September 11 educated people now respond to an act of savagery not with a defence of civilisation, but with a defence of barbarism.”

Bari Weiss

Read the whole speech:
https://www.thefp.com/p/you-are-the-last-line-of-defense

An important article documenting the role of Australia's communist party to take over academic history departments and eventually shape the national narrative. This is not a red scare, this is how communist systems operate.

https://historystack.substack.com/p/red-flags-and-the-manufacture-of