Change Status, Not Evidence

If 'woke' is sustained primarily by status economies and virtue‑signalling incentives, then counter‑strategies that rely on better facts (e.g., publishing contested genetics studies) will fail; effective intervention must change the social and institutional incentives that reward public moral signaling (hiring, promotion, reputational markets). — This reframes culture‑war strategy—shifting from evidentiary contests to reforms of status‑allocating institutions (universities, media, foundations), with big implications for which policies will actually reduce performative virtue signalling.