Social constructivism is a social science theory that assumes that knowledge is constructed through social interactions and their conditions.
Wokeness is completely oriented towards social constructivism. In this view, there is no objective knowledge in the sense that knowledge directly corresponds to objective reality. The so-called “constructivity postulate” states that the believed reality is always first produced through interaction.394
In this view, it is assumed that there are many forms of knowledge, whereby each form is only a valid assertion about reality within the respective culture. The assumption is that everything can be changed if the social conditions are changed. Since every culture produces certain forms of knowledge that in turn lead to different social conditions, critical constructivists see all social processes as political; in particular, the processes of knowledge production (see New Left and Critical Theory).
Woke activists have ambitious goals. They want to shape a culture that systemically rejects everything that is considered oppressive (see Deconstruction). In this new culture, only what does not allow oppression is to be considered true (see Decolonisation and epistemic violence).395
This strategy is often practised so radically by woke activists that even objective characteristics are to be considered meaningless. In woke thinking, therefore, the statement that something (such as biological sex) is “socially constructed” means: powerful people have defined it as “true” in the sense of “valid” for their own interests (see Conflict).
When woke activists criticise that science is a social construct, they do not want to objectively describe the way science is merely the result of social and political processes. This is always a scientifically and philosophically relevant question. Instead, they criticise an allegedly problematic culture in science as long as their own ideas are not sufficiently taken into account (see Inclusion and epistemic violence).
In reality, there are politically conditioned impairments with which every form of science must deal. The actually existing political impairments cannot, however, serve as legitimisation for woke activism, as woke ideology itself poses a great danger to serious science.396