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Certain people, discovered how easy it is, to change entire institutions, by applying targeted pressure towards individual managers of those institutions. No m
by anonylizard 2y ago
Certain people, discovered how easy it is, to change entire institutions, by applying targeted pressure towards individual managers of those institutions.
No manager dares to refuse these initiatives because they'll be instantly named by the activist, with the help of journalist friends, and ensure they lose their job.
Hence by going one at a time, a small group of activists can change far larger organisations.
Of course, every action has a reaction. Enough resentment has built up, that made anti-woke a legitimate position to take in the public eye, with no longer much risk of losing the job. This makes all the previous tactics lose their power.
Also, the 'anti-woke' crowd is learning these tactics too. From congressional grilling of university presidents, to gamers explicitly documenting the DEI consultancy involvements, its all targeting and absolutely destroying individuals to cause a chilling effect on the populace at large.
- leosanchez 2y ago> No manager dares to refuse these initiatives because they'll be instantly named by the activist, with the help of journalist friends, and ensure they lose their job. Doesn't this feel very authoritarian ? Just replace manager with citizen and you have USSR.
- lazide 2y agoAuthoritarianism would be if it was top down. This is more a leftist version of McCarthyism. Aka intellectual purity testing and purges.
- hallway_monitor 2y agoI don't know why you're getting down voted for this. It's a very precise description of what has been happening the last decade. Conform and declare your support or be ruined, even if you have valid criticisms and disagreements with the doctrine.
- lazide 2y agoI would assume it’s precisely because it’s a precise and accurate description. Given the current climate.
- marcosdumay 2y ago> Authoritarianism would be if it was top down. If a minority can impose their will into institutions, destroying the life of anybody that opposes them, you need a quite messed-up conception of power structures to place that minority "down".
- hotdogscout 2y agoBecause you can't put the power to influence behavior on a straight line. Each clique has it's own power structure. Charisma, rule of law, pity, revenge, resentment, morality, resources, it's all a part of it.
- lazide 2y agoWhen said minority are just as likely to be peers or subordinates within the power structure, I don’t see how it could be ‘from the top’. Do you?
- eastbound 2y agoDo you think every participant to Mao’s cultural revolution was consenting? No. People do whatever they can throughout history, and end up having to participate to larger changes. The only remedy we’ve found was Humanism, l’esprit critique, education for everyone, and raising awareness and allergy to all authoritarian acts, but see, in the last 50 years, I’ve seen younger people who aren’t even aware who Diderot is, let alone had enough literacy to read or write those books fluently if they spent the time, even in $130k jobs. Then we flooded each country with about 12% people who haven’t had those Humanism tenants taughts at school. I’ll from using a stronger metaphor because it will sound cheesy, but by losing the teachings of logic, rhetoric and history, our civilization is not able to hold the pillars of democracy anymore.
- geraldwhen 2y agoI’ve been here. “We can’t hire any more white men” is probably an illegal stance, but what do I gain from fighting that? Nothing, and I suspect I’d be fired. I’m a tadpole in a huge lake. I have no influence over these likely illegal hiring decisions. And unless I’m just incredibly unlucky, these same conversations are happening everywhere at big companies.