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Rosey's avatar

Much of the present focus on wokeness, to me, is a well-intentioned desire to pursue fairness in both equal opportunity, America's "special sauce", and equally fair outcomes, now rebranded as "equal equity." This is especially honorable considering one's opportunities are the most amplifying outcomes, as success breeds success.

Unfortunately, evolutionary homo sapien genetic development will enforce boundaries and constraints that will never yield equality of outcomes. Individuals given actual equal opportunities, especially in capitalist marketplaces, always choose the best price/value choice available to them. And that choice is the result of a meritocratic effort. It would be tribal and personal suicide, for example, to demand medical care be based on irrelevant performance factors such as melanin (skin pigment) or sexual genitalia; what matters is intelligence (IQ), conscientiousness, experience, and sufficient infrastructure. While any human may have these necessary, irrefutable attributes, evolutionary biological science confirms the statistical averages are not the same between races organically, and most certainly culturally. Which means, goods or services that depend upon, for example, generally high-IQ labor will gravitate toward races and cultures with high IQ's. Life is hard. It is especially hard if you have a low IQ, or live in a culture that suppresses IQ.

In a woke world, to the subject of this article, corporations will spend tremendous effort in finding statistical high-IQ outliers in historically lower-IQ populations and cultures in order to maintain meritocratic competitiveness. They will be foolish do think otherwise.

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Unwoke in Idaho's avatar

I don’t think woke is well intentioned at all. It’s intention is and always was malign. And it’s a diversion, the opiate of the masses. Concentrate in woke and all sorts of nefarious things and cons slip under the radar.

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