The people upholding these "ideas" are actual sociopaths, it's that simple.
"Woke" is an incredibly useful tool, like all rigid belief structures that are based on subjective morality. This is why people correctly identify the cult-like nature, but with cults there are true believers in the upper echelons of the structure, with wokeness all the people above grunt or follower know it's bullshit, they are perfectly willing and able to express it in private conversation... that will inevitably get leaked because they're all sociopathic, narcissistic, BPD monsters vying for power.
The end result of this is very kind to existing power structures since the nature of these systems facilitates a certain level of upward mobility, giving the worst people you'll ever know a reason to uphold it. Unwilling to partake prunes away the socially healthy by the self-selecting nature of people's unwillingness to play a game where the only rule is to destroy everyone else around you. This is really no different to the managerial class in traditional corporations, the people who make it up the ladder are those with anti-social traits directed in a goal oriented way. Just like in those structures the people who play this game poorly, the low IQ ones, are the caustic ones burning everything down around them, hence this thread.
Wokeness therefore is self-selecting system of social motility upholding existing power structures for the benefit of those at the tippy top. (Much to the disbelief of the true believers who truly believe that a black woman dropping bombs on civilians is somehow materially different than a random white man doing the same thing). This class of deplorables, the middle-managers, the petty tyrants, and small minded social climbers are the "buffer class"; a petit bourgeoisie of half-a-millionaires. Their purpose is to hold normal people as ideological hostages and to act as lightning rods for the justified rage of the populace, while the people with real power hollow out the countries and heritage of the people they lord over; the globohomo noveau serf, thankful to work so they can barely escape their planned destitution.
The fact that wokeness, despite it's long tentacles in critical theory spanning back a century, only became a thing during the Internet age is also no coincidence. As people gained information independence the easily controlled systems of social control through radio, tv, and newspapers lost their power, censoring everything in a heavy handed and obvious way would rouse the normie, but consolidation and convenience would have the exact opposite effect. The tenets of wokeness also serve to sow division inherent in forcing people of different races and temperaments to in constant live skin to skin contact; You will suck the tranny nigger dick or be fired and lose your parents house you're unable to pay the tax on. All of this is the enemy of the natural, it's perverse by design, now eat you goy slop and goon to porn or be destroyed.
On a side-note, did you know that Facebook, the myspace killer, was partially funded by the CIA, and no doubt Mossad. There's not one large social media platform that isn't controlled by intelligence agencies, which in turn are controlled by the military industrial complex, which in turn are controlled by banking which also controls governments that are the release valve for frustration. We're less free than a dirt farming serf, there is no escape from globohomo psy-op hell, even the multipolarity of the world stage is just gay faggot puppet theatre, both sides dance to the same Item Bounce tune played by Satan worshipping child raping cannibal monsters.