It's simply amazing to consider YouTube an enemy when YouTube is basically the soul reason right wing propaganda has spread to the level that it has today. YouTube is the breeding ground for the alt right. Their complaint is literally the opposite of reality, and as I type that I realize I've typed that a lot before haven't I? Same old shit I guess.
I think more that they mean that alphabet has a massive dei programs. Special teams for minorities, required reporting on dei compliance for orgs, and official recognition of minority holidays etc for their employee base.
This is absolutely true, but not in the sense this is trying to portray. They censor me hard, and I'm not even that political, just anti-spyware. They censor anything they don't like, so if you slight them for being a mass-data collection organization that shit all over their own old slogan, they put you on their shit list actively keeping you from being able to speak. Really, Google isn't "woke" more so just a bunch of pandering opportunist capitalist predators in sheep's wool. The word "woke" itself has devolved.
Truck drivin', bible-thumpin', gun totin' knuckledragger in Texas: "I ain't gonna buy Lockeed Martin products, I'm gonna boycott them! Make 'murica grate agin!"
Proceeds to angrily keep on NOT buying surface-to-air missiles.
Woke, when boiled down to its very basic premise is: giving a shit about other people in society.
They're against that so much so that they make websites like this to avoid giving money to corporations that pretend to value other people's existence?
Pretty sure the people actually using it in a derogatory manner don't care about common usage or meaning and use it as a placeholder for the n* word when talking in public. Urban, woke, DEI, East coast elite, etc is all just bigotry and racism.
The point is that it's all pretense anyway. At least for me. Capital has no soul, it's a constantly mutating cancer that feeds on itself. So the rainbow flags seem a little disingenuous.
Fun Fact: Novelist John Ringo is usually given credit for inventing that slogan.
John Ringo currently has trouble getting his novels published under his own name because he started going mask off and now has to post his racist shit to Substack.
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(Okay I'd still buy an actual end to the Aldenata and Looking Glass series, but still)
I read a few of his books and really disliked his elementary Economics understanding. He really lays it on thick towards a Libertarian utopia of selfishness.
Boeing is also woke according to them lol. I know someone who interned at boeing. They made him watch a mandatory anti-racism video where they weirdly focused on racism against white people.
If it's a positive article about the company's environmental work, inclusion statements or supports any Biden policies then BAM woke.
If it's an article about the company donations to election denying politicians, about the company being accused of racism or about Republican donations then it gets stamped non woke.
Average the results and profit!
I'm not sure how many articles they "find" or how they decide which ones to include but this website is as hilarious as it is sad. Imagine being so afraid of the word "woke" that you feel the need curate a list of companies to avoid.
I sort of want every company imaginable to be marked as "extremely woke". Get the alt right out of the marketplace. Let them create secondary and underground stores.
That and shit like point of sale systems. I don't really care one way or another if the company making QuikTrip's debit card machines supports gay rights tbh
All government contractors have to be "woke" to get the contracts. I am surprised the alt right isn't blaming the government for ruining defense contractors with mandatory DEI (I jest, they definitely are).
Browsing the conservative subreddit is bad for my health, but holy shit it's so funny. Yes, I'm sure Boeing's decades long history of skirting safety regulations is really because of checks notes black people.
Call it whatever you want, but all I see is a weirdly unexpected avenue for potential solidarity against a major arms manufacturer. Hell, I'll call it woke if it helps turn Americans against the fuckers building bombs.