Argument that what distinguishes Wokeness from other political moods - it's a way to reduce political questions, which involve both fact and value, to value alone, and thus let people who know nothing to participate and so appear curious and knowledgeable.

At the risk of sounding like a 2010s anti-woke YouTuber, this is related to postmodernism, which was taken as a fully-general license in much of academia to disregard the idea of objective reality in favor of everything-is-narrative [so we should follow mine].