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If wokism is primarily a status‑driven signaling system sustained by self‑deception, then rational argumentation or removing formal incentives (laws, funding) will do little to dismantle it. Counterstrategies must address social status, signaling incentives, and the psychological mechanisms that make virtue claims self‑validating.
— This reframes anti‑woke tactics from policy and argument to social and status engineering, shifting how political actors and institutions should respond.
Sources: The origin of woke: a George Mason view, Wokeism's Deeper Roots – Theodore Dalrymple, Thomas Sowell versus US Education (+52 more)