Is there really a ‘woke’ checklist?

Crispin Sartwell’s Oct. 25 op-ed, “As a professor, I've seen woke and MAGA censorship. Which is worse?,” ably explained the dangers of government threats against universities for political purposes. However, he claimed MAGA’s acts of censorship force better educational outcomes by countering wokeness in academia. It’s important to note that wokeness is not an organization or a set of rules. Deviating from its original meaning of awareness of racial injustice, today, wokeness is a vague collection of expectations meant to enforce conformist behavior. (There have always been conformist pressures, long before wokeness became a thing.) Sartwell wrote that professors must accept “hundreds of fine-grained dogmas.” To “survive,” Sartwell stated you have to “tack your pronouns onto every email” an