The core thesis of Wokism really is a quasi-religious claim, very similar to the idea of karma or generational sin: that all gaps in performance between people groups must be due to the single variable of "oppression," and should be resolved via enforced "equity."
This is of course complete nonsense: the Woke Shahada ("There is no Cause but Prejudice, and Kendi is our Prophet") completely ignores the easily trackable influence of 100+ cultural, historical, regional, genetic, and stochastic variables. But, its existence does present scholars with an actual conundrum: how to engage an 'academic theory' that is largely unfalsifiable - how can one PROVE that all of MY variables (time spent studying) aren't due in some subtle way to bias or conflict at some point? - and almost entirely faith-based. To me, the best approach is to treat woke as "a wholly useless and non-necessary paradigm" when it comes to practically predicting test scores or income or whatever in modern society - in the way that we DO treat the idea that life outcomes are determined by the disfavor of God. I.e., we can simply predict outcomes by using normal variables, including real proxies for racism, and shouldn't do more than note in a foot-note that some zealots believe all of those things are also due to one Magic Evil. With Floyd Hysteria over, basically treat these people like any other conspiracy theorists.
@wil_da_beast630 Oppression is just the excuse. The vehicle. Equity, hard core socialism, is the goal.
@wil_da_beast630 Sounds like communism with extra handwaiving.
@wil_da_beast630 The Woke are Narrators; Sowell's Annointed. They were displaced by the analog AI we call The Market (Democracy, Capitalism, Science). "Modernity" is their 550yr fight over who writes our Narrative: Bespoke by Narrators? or Crowd-sourced by the Market? The Woke are Priests.
@wil_da_beast630 If you can get adults to believe in Noah's ark, you can get them to believe anything.
@wil_da_beast630 Wokism is about being aware of the true past of our country,the current SystemicRacism& the future that will happen if we don’t cancel it Being not woke means refusing the fact that SystemicRacism still exist& claiming/fake crying that equity measures discriminate against Whites
@wil_da_beast630 I appreciate both this insight, as well as the concise definition of wokeness. So many have struggled to distill it down to a short definition.
@wil_da_beast630 Never trust a "single" variable system claiming to be scientific.