So your idea is that if some groups are lagging behind because of past injustices, we shouldn't do anything to give those groups a leg up at this point? Like "sorry your ancestors were slaves, your grandparents lived under Jim Crow and you live in generational poverty as a result, but we have to treat you the same as a rich white kid or they'll be sad."
That being said, I'm all for class-based solutions for elevating people, but the same people who oppose wokeness and affirmative action hate those too.
I don't think we should typically help people based on race, but on need. If you're poor we should help you, regardless of race. If you need help with healthcare, social services, tuition, etc. we should help you regardless of race. If you live in a poor community and your school or certain individual kids in those schools need support and funding let's help them and fund their support, regardless of race.
You could make a special case for aboriginal communities being treated differently since it's a special case and many of them live on reserves and there's a lot of unique legal and historical issues there. But you could also help them because the individuals in those communities need help more than most Canadians and have some of the lowest socioeconomic outcomes, rather than simply through some sense of colonial guilt. Personally it doesn't matter to me what culture/race you are, if you're hurting and you need help we should help you because it's the human thing to do, whether you're "white trash" or live on a reserve.
Meanwhile, we need to keep reminding each other that we should all be judged as individuals based on our own actions, merit, character rather than prejudging each other based on the racial group we belong to and stop discriminating against others based on those racial generalizations. This includes cops, woke university admissions panels, everybody.
"Many"? How many? I guarantee that the number of woke people who think whites are the devil or whatever weird caricature of woke beliefs you have in mind pales to insignificance to the number of people who think blacks are intrinsically lazy and prone to criminality (and this includes people with actual institutional power and influence, not a few purveyors of doofy EDI trainings or profs from obscure colleges).
Both racial stereotypes are harmful, which is my point. Both causes resentment, hatred, discrimination, and disunity. I'm not trying to argue who is worse, I'm not really suse what the point of that would be. Yeah alt-right racists in the US are almost certainly a bigger problem than racist "woke people", but what does that prove?
Right because white people apparently have no agency and can only respond to being accused of racism by actually becoming racist.
What i'm saying is if people, especially non-white people, keep attacking "white people" as a group rather than attacking racist white individuals or racist laws/policies/institutions then a lot of white people are just going to dig in their heels. Moderates will turn socially conservative, the conservatives will go alt-right, and the alt-right will go even more Nazi than before. I think making racism and racists the enemy rather than "white people" is an idea that reasonable can get behind, rather than pitting racial groups against racial groups, which is a recipe for disaster.