Why are Mostly Young People Lured into Dark Net of Wokeness?
They're Inexperienced and, thus, Easier Brainwashed
If you look at the average age of American Woke SJWs, it turns out that most of them are students and other young people. Older generations resist the Woke contamination much more. Now why? There are few reasons for that. With students, there is an obvious reason. Most of American universities and campuses are already contaminated by the Woke with their Critical Race Theory, queer theory and other Marcuse, Marx and Hegel based unscientific crap, and, hence, neo Marxist professors indoctrinate their students instead of educating them. This far, it's clear why American campuses produce the record amounts of brainwashed young Woke SJWs. It's not the only reason, though. Things are more complicated, as usual.
In general, I believe young people are much easier to brainwash and to turn to radical cause than older generations. Young people have a lot of energy, passion, and burning desire to do something heroic and to change the whole world to a better place, but not much experience, not that well-developed critical thinking, and lack of understanding how things work in this world in general. The Woke make a perfect use of this combination of naivete with passion in the young minds to their own dirty ends. It makes young people extremely susceptible to the Woke propaganda. It's in general very dangerous combination when one is full of energy and passion but lacks in knowledge and experience. Those people - basically, most of young people - could be easily brainwashed and turned to the most radical and evil causes out of best intentions. Yeah, the road to Hell is paved with best intentions, as usual.
Not that it happened first time in history. In my homeland Russia, it was mostly young people who were lured into Bolshevic nets as well, and who were behind the devastating, violent and destructive October revolution. It was mostly young people who became domestic terrorists and revolutionaries even prior to it, back in 19th century, when those violent extremists assassinated the emperor Alexander II in Russia (very good and liberal emperor by the way, compared to most Russian dictatorial Czars, who had liberated the serfs, and his people repaid him with murder, just great). But it was again mostly young people who were used as tools for the bloody violence by the dirty puppeteers who wanted to change the regime for their own political ends. Now, history repeats itself in the West.
But there is one more reason why it's mostly young people who are lured into tenets of Wokeness, and this one is the least flattering to them. It's a popular opinion that young generation is usually 'more progressive' and 'embraces change' much more than 'rigid conservative' older generations who hold to the 'stinking deadwood' of the past until the bitter end. This is only half of the truth, however. The burning desire of the young people to 'upend and destroy the old system' in order to build a 'bright new world' sometimes just goes too far, and brings no good to anyone, while older generations 'clinging to the past' might, in the contrary, become a salvation. The thing is that not all system is bad, there are many good things in the modern Western civilization for example, and the Woke want to upend and destroy it all just because of the few bad things there. Also, they have no idea which 'bright new world' they are going to build usually because they are focusing mostly on destruction of the current world. They don't look beyond that usually. So, if we'd listen to them, we all might just end up in the burnt world of ashes, with no idea how to restore what we had just destroyed.
But this stereotype of young people being traditionally 'more progressive' is again well-played upon by the Woke. Many Woke activists and politicians like AOC brand themselves as 'progressives' as well (though in truth their radical agenda is far from being progressive and is in fact regressive). All resistance to their toxic neo Marxist agenda they deflect as 'rigidity of older conservative generations unable to embrace change'. And young people fall into this trap just fine. They want to brag to the whole world how 'progressive' they are, and to flaunt their 'progressive' worldview at every corner. To be suspected in any kind of 'rigid old-fashioned' thinking is the worst insult to them. Hence, they all become members of the Woke cult without much thinking because otherwise the Woke would brand them as 'not progressive enough'. To realize that the Woke radical agenda has nothing to do with real progressivism is far beyond the mental capabilities of many inexperienced and naive young people. Which is worse, if you warn them of it, they'd just call you 'an old rigid conservative' and dismiss all your warnings (and you should be even grateful that you weren't called 'bigot and hater' straight away, heh).
No, I didn't want to insult all the young people and to label them all as 'dumb, naive and Woke'. No, I myself know quite a few of bright and pretty young minds who can think for themselves and don't accept all the Woke bullshit and all media/political propaganda pushed down on them, and I know quite a few people older than me who lack critical thinking completely and regurgitate the Woke media propaganda just fine. Even if those people consider themselves pretty smart. Come on, even GRRM, the author of one of the most sophisticated fantasy political sags in the world, and pretty old and experienced and smart guy, fell victim to the Woke propaganda, and was caught in regurgitation of American mainstream media false narratives more than once. So maybe I shouldn't blame young people much. But my main point was that due to their lack of experience and knowledge, but excess of energy and passion, the young people are especially in grave danger of the Woke propaganda. So they should exercise more caution and learn critical thinking as early in their lives as possible. Gullibility is the worst human trait in our age.