At the risk of being too overly politically for HN, I posit that wokeness is a distraction that is amplified by people in power (mostly on the right) to try to

At the risk of being too overly politically for HN, I posit that wokeness is a distraction that is amplified by people in power (mostly on the right) to try to create artificial class conflict (me vs the woke “elites”). This distracts from the real class conflicts in our society. Highly recommend the recent Citations Needed podcast about this (two part on the GOPs “Rightwing Populism” Rebrand).