I don’t believe you can prove the woke ideology wrong in a way that will be truly convincing to its faithful adherents. It is only by its results that it will be truly known and judged, in the end. Jesus said people would know his followers by the love they had for one another. Which is to say, empirically. By the fruit you understand the tree. 

   The woke ideology is best viewed as a theoretical framework, a way of seeing the world and navigating it. The only way to judge it and show its value, in the end, will be through its results, to see where it arrives. Does it make society more or less just, does it bring people together or tear them apart, does it make life better or worse, does it make people better or worse, does it cultivate sanity or insanity, does it produce wealth or poverty, does it bring peace or does it bring conflict?

   People have a very basic suite of intuitions that come into play when all is said and done. They can tell, after the fact, if something was a disaster and is killing them and making them miserable. Eventually. But a person, and indeed a whole culture, may have to walk pretty far down the road of consequences before the screaming in their ears becomes sufficiently audible that they can realize where it’s coming from. 

    So I’m not entirely sure that this error is one that can be avoided or reasoned out of. It’s not a simple fact or even an argument within an existing theoretical structure. It’s an entirely alternative theoretical framework. It’s a different physics of humankind. And you can’t dispute the claims of one theoretical framework from within the nested structures of another. In the end, all you can do is let people use it as a lens and see where it gets them, whether they’re able to make any progress or get any of their anticipated results.

   People can fall deeply in love with their framework. What they wish it to be, what they hope it will do. The real question is, how many miseries will have to pile up before they realize the relationship is abusive and extractive and built on lies and half truths and false promises? And what skills do we have for carrying forward what did work and what was worthwhile out of the general wreck of human extremism and experimentation? 

    Freedom of speech and local governance are, perhaps, our only defense against the tyranny of centralization, which would gather all banners under a single hegemony and make all pay the price for testing the theories of a few. They confine the borders of the revolution, so they can be tested in some measure of isolation from the lives of others. If one ship goes down, there are others to salvage what is salvageable. If a fleet of ships gets lost, other survivors arrive at their intended destinations. If one venture fails to pay out, we still have others to keep us solvent. Experimentation is useful, but you have to confine the boundaries of the experiment or risk evolving yourself right out of your competencies.