Richard Marshall sent along this essay by David Rieff (the journalist and writer who is the son of Susan Sontag); it has a few good lines (and a couple of pretty odd ones too).  Here some of excerpts of the former, which capture the best parts of the essay:

Wokeness has almost nothing to say about the economy, and, more crucially, the more we see Woke in action in the larger world outside academe, the clearer it becomes that Woke is perfectly compatible with the current economic ideology—that is to say, with capitalism….

[D]emands for diversity and for representation almost never seem to get around to the question of class, not at the newsrooms of The New York Times and The Washington Post, not in Silicon Valley, not on Wall Street. A tour of the diversity statements of major universities makes it clear that there is a blanket assumption that the underrepresented groups are either nonwhite or non-cisgender. The new consensus strongly favors race-sex-and-gender representation, rather than material inequality, as the locus of political action.

It is no mystery why this consensus is meeting so little resistance….[A]lmost no one who has watched the mainstreaming of Woke, especially in corporate America, can any longer imagine the ideology as a threat to capitalism. To the contrary, the cultural radicalism and economic conformism of Woke turn out to work very well together.

When a recruitment commercial for the Central Intelligence Agency includes a paean to intersectionality; when, during the 2020 US Open tennis championship, the familiar ads for the event’s traditional sponsors such as Rolex watches and Emirates Airways nestle comfortably alongside expressions of grief over the murders of George Floyd and Brionna Taylor and expressions of support for Black Lives Matter; and when advertising seemly almost overnight became much more racially representative, but these black, brown, and Asian faces are selling the products and services they have always sold, it does look like capitalism has embraced the old saying that in order for nothing to change, everything has to change….

[T]here are no capitalist arguments against Woke—just as there were no capitalist arguments against multiculturalism 40 years ago, when in an essay I described capitalism as multiculturalism’s silent partner. Yes, today, everything is louder, more absolutist, and, not to mince words, stupider than it was then. But if these past decades have demonstrated anything, it is that capitalism, far from being on its last legs, is, in fact, doing very well—that is to say, doing what it does best: adapting to new conditions and figuring out how to make a profit out of them….

When Adolph Reed, Jr., writes that the real project of Woke is to diversify the ruling class, and little else, in a sentence he has described the essence of the new cultural system.