If elites assume equal innate ability across races and sexes, persistent disparities are explained as oppression and bias, making wokism the most logically consistent worldview under that premise. Smart people gravitate to this coherence, while the right appears confused because it shares the equality premise but resists its policy conclusions.
— This reframes the culture war as a dispute over a foundational empirical claim, implying that elite alignment hinges on whether mainstream institutions preserve or abandon the equality thesis.
2025.10.07
95% relevant
Cofnas explicitly argues that if elites assume equal innate ability across groups, disparities are read as oppression, producing 'wokism'—and that only rejecting the equality thesis (i.e., embracing hereditarianism) can stop it.
2025.10.07
100% relevant
Cofnas argues ‘wokism is simply what follows from taking the equality thesis seriously’ and urges the right to challenge that thesis to win over smart elites.
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