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I guess..yeah.

I was never a fan of woke capitalism. It just seemed like extra anti-woke capitalism.

It seemed largely like social engineering deliberately aimed at the public to shift everything more to the right. I despised my last workplace which was all about that stuff.


(Edit: To be clear, I am very much for what is truly bona fide woke. I was attacking the way Industrial corporations do those things in a way calculated to destroy their most radical aspects while keeping anything that overall works against woke. I think those people actively foster the image of a left or feminist movement that is frivolous and unrelatable or entitled.

The only stereotypes I see are the ones that I suspect corporate America wants to project while pretending to be on the side of harmony etc. I had this cognitive dissonance a lot in the 2016s etc when Facebook Google etc claimed to be woke. I found it confusing since they are obviously no such thing. Otoh by faux championing woke they tainted the image of woke. As just a keyboard warrior thing.

Woke must by its nature be more unpredictable and less easy to control than anything corporate America latches on to expecting the normal trite payday or a sneaky, backdoor attack on the values they fear the most as it would upend the status quo for real. Lina Khan was woke and she certainly gave them a run for their money.

Woke is alive and well. Down with woke capitalism though is my stance. )