If you think of “wokeism” as a luxury belief—something that many people like to use to show themselves as virtuous, but don’t really do a cost/benefit of any component of behavior or signalling, this makes more sense. Also, don’t confuse yourself into thinking systems or corporations have beliefs or intents. They are merely aggregates of diverse actors who happen to be near each other and have intertwined behaviors.
Signaling of wokeism is pretty rampant in today’s youth, who are the biggest customers and large part of the workforce for the things you mention. It’s probably not ideologically attractive to the elites or leaders, but it’s not obviously harmful, so they’re better off supporting (or at least accepting) it than dealing with massive conflict within their orgs and among their customers.
If you think of “wokeism” as a luxury belief—something that many people like to use to show themselves as virtuous, but don’t really do a cost/benefit of any component of behavior or signalling, this makes more sense. Also, don’t confuse yourself into thinking systems or corporations have beliefs or intents. They are merely aggregates of diverse actors who happen to be near each other and have intertwined behaviors.
Signaling of wokeism is pretty rampant in today’s youth, who are the biggest customers and large part of the workforce for the things you mention. It’s probably not ideologically attractive to the elites or leaders, but it’s not obviously harmful, so they’re better off supporting (or at least accepting) it than dealing with massive conflict within their orgs and among their customers.