Woke Movement Is Global, and America Should Be (Mostly) Proud – Bloomberg
It drives conservatives and libertarians crazy that woke ideas often have more purchase in the private sector than in the public sector. Private universities, for example, seem more woke than public universities.
Still, you read it here first (or maybe not): The halls of power in Washington just aren t that woke! They are nothing like Twitter or Google or Yale University.
Yes, many woke opponents cite the role of government and the fear of lawsuits as forces driving woke behavior and corporate attachment to wokeism. And surely they have a point. Yet in much of the corporate and nonprofit world, wokeism is not merely a reflexive defense against lawsuits. It is embraced with enthusiasm.
Wokeism has passed a market test that has been going on for decades. That should give pause to anyone seeking to dismiss it.
Conclusion: What is America, really?
Why is the debate over wokeism so wide and deep? In part it is a function of the internet. But it is also because it is the intellectual equivalent of potboiler, implicating politics, race, ethnicity, gender, education and international relations. All it needs is a subplot about luxury real estate.
I don’t know. Seems like a lot of codswallop to me. Wokeism could be like any other deeply unfriendly ideology — take your pick; there’s a lot of them out there — that leads what’s left of civilization to devastation or even just to stagnation and mediocrity. That’s what it looks like to me, and I don’t even need a counter-intuitive explanation for this view.