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Corporate Subservience to China Exposes the Hypocrisy of Woke Capitalism
- api 7y agoA lot of "woke" is BS just like most political posturing. The good parts can be boiled down to "be wary of stereotypes because aggregate statistics don't work like that and our brains are biased" and "don't be an asshole." Corporate subservience to China just shows that corporations (shock!) care about money and (shock of all shocks!) tend to lose all spine when big money is at stake. China is both a critical supplier and a huge market. BTW a lot of "woke capitalism" is about money too. It's about not offending potential partners and customers, making people feel good, and in the case of social media keeping platforms clear of too much offensive material to make them appealing to a wide audience.
- bediger4000 7y agoI don't think you're wrong, but isn't there a little bit more to this? I mean, Quillette is the Arch-nemesis of "Woke". Quillette gloating about moral failures of a movement that open espouses morality over money is different, than if, say, Jacobin gloated about it.
- api 7y agoYes I'm well aware of that. If woke is nice feel good bullshit then the opposite of woke is mean edgelord bullshit, so I'll take woke over "based" or whatever the hell it's called this week. Sometimes you have to pick the lesser evil. I just wish sane discourse would come back and this trollish social media and 4chan/8chan induced psychosis would end.