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The woke movement could be the next great US cultural export, and it is going to do many other countries some good

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Perhaps one of the most woke exports from the US came in the form of #BlackLivesMatter protests in 2020. Here, protesters gather at Place de la Concorde on June 6, 2020 in Paris, France. Picture: AURELIEN MEUNIER/GETTY IMAGES

Wokeism is an idea that can be adapted to virtually every country. Identify a major form of oppression in a given region or nation, argue that people should be more sensitive to it, add some rhetorical flourishes, purge some wrongdoers and, voila, you have created another woke movement. But even the un-woke among us might think francophone society and culture could stand to be a little more woke. The boss needs to know he doesn’t have the right to sleep with his secretary. And Belgians need to come to terms more honestly with their colonial heritage in Africa. Wokeism has turned out to be a way to get them to do that.

Does that make you feel better or worse about wokeism? I say better. Again, keep the bigger picture in mind. It doesn’t much matter who controls the English department at Oberlin College. But it would be nice if the Saudis moved to allow more rights for women. If QAnon were considered a religion, it would have more adherents than many other denominations. Even if not all of those believers are locked in, 15% is still a lot.

First, a lot of Republicans like to portray wokeism as a Democratic movement, and some even plan to campaign against it. The idea is that wokeism will take over the party, then the government, then the culture, not necessarily in that order. The larger point is that there aren’t very many good macro theories of social change. Wokeism may well be the rope the anti-capitalists will use to hang themselves. Wokeism does not poll very well with the public.

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