Woke Resists Reason and Defunding

If wokism is primarily a status‑signal sustained by self‑deception, then factual refutation or withdrawing government support will not collapse it; combatting it requires changing the reputational incentives and status hierarchies that produce the signaling. This reframes political strategy away from evidence campaigns and budgetary pressure toward altering social rewards and the signaling market. — It changes what plausible interventions look like: policy and debate strategies must target incentives and status, not just arguments or funding cuts.