Equalitarianism & Its Consequences

The fundamental error of wokeism: the belief that all demographic groups have roughly equal socially valued traits and, therefore, that all outcome disparities are caused by cultural forces...

Written by Bo Winegard.

In the past five years, an ideology often called wokeism has spread rapidly, from college campuses to corporate bureaucracies to the editorial pages of elite newspapers. Because wokeism does not have an official text or sanctioned dogmas, its precise doctrines are indefinite. Some have argued that this creedal indeterminacy demonstrates that wokeism is an invention of its enemies, an absurd caricature, an ideological effigy created to be torched. But the essence of wokeism is clear enough.