They're not brainwashed. They know what it means. They're bigots who are opposed to the healing of systemic injustices. Every last one of them. To be anti-woke is to be pro-bigotry, and they're all perfectly aware of this; the same "anti-woke" people would be perfectly satisfied with lynching non-whites or LGBT people in the streets if they thought they could get away with it and only get social affirmation for their actions. They're exactly the kind of people who'd have gleefully pointed out their secretly Jewish neighbours to the SS, knowing full well what was going to happen to them as a result.
These people don't deserve excuses.