WOKE is still applicable but in a more limited role now.

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    7 months ago

    It’s usually corporate initiatives that don’t do anything meaningful for minorities outside of superficial things. But reactionaries fail to see its purpose is to support capitalism and their treats and think it’s some Marxist plot

    • HexbearGPT [comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      It’s a way for corporations to get brownie points for simply enacting the neoliberal program of hiring the best bootlicking candidates who can run capitalism most efficiently, even if that means hiring outside of the relatively shallow pool of straight cis white men.

      Ironically the campaign against DEI will make capitalism less efficient and more unstable. Lmao.

      • slumsoul [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        Ironically it’s usually white women that do get hired to these things lol

      • Ildsaye [they/them]
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        7 months ago

        It will miss out on competence, yes, but intensifying caste hierarchies is also one of the ways capitalism stabilizes itself