If you remember back to the lofty intellectual days of the early 2000's you'll remember the heady interest levels that New Atheism raised. The inflection point for this movement was the popularization of Dawkin's religion as a mind virus hypothesis.
The evangelical zeal this fostered spurned the maturation of the science of religion field and ironically produced a religious like cult amongst atheism. This later morphed with Critical Theory into academic wokeness.
As you read this article on how small funding changes in post-secondary have all but guaranteed the re-evolution of religious-based universities, think of Dawkin's old (and largely discredited) idea of religion as as a mind virus. Wokeism's achilles heel seems to be people's disdain for Catholic styled Spanish Inquisitional dynamics and its Ludditish tendencies to hinder objective inquiry. "And yet it moves..." - Galileo.
https://americanmind.org/memo/the-brainworms-come-for-big-science/
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