Wokeness is more interesting than detractors or supporters suppose. An aspect I haven't seen anyone comment on:
Taking woke theory at face value it would predict that wokeness will be subverted and used as a tool of power no?
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I recently read "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective" and it pretty explicitly states that knowledge is a tool of power, and proposes a new kind of knowledge that is structurally more feminist (meaning, bureaucratic)
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the basic idea is, situated knowledge is not about impersonal facts (which have coevolved with the existing power structure and are therefore patriarchic) but about questions filtered through a (however defined) body of people
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which, to be fair, does represent some kinds of knowledge better, but moves epistemic authority from any single person's understanding to the hivemind's, and encodes an ostensibly feminist but really just bureaucratic power structure