Woke as managerial ideology

Woke is best read not primarily as a set of moral propositions but as a managerial derivation: a language of procedural fairness and anti‑bias that legitimates and expands administrative discretion, credential power, and elite status amid rapid demographic change. The frame highlights cui bono questions—who gains institutional authority when multiculturalist language becomes the dominant rationalization. — If adopted, this lens shifts debates from abstract culture‑war moralizing to concrete scrutiny of how diversity, DEI, and anti‑racism policies redistribute organizational power, hiring, curricula, and public‑sector authority.