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What is the great woke purge?


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AtlasBarfed10/12/2024

You may not recall, but the rabble in Google for about a decade would publicly demonstrate against the company for being in China, or various diversity goals, or other fairly liberal things that typical capitalist companies really don't tolerate.

Then the post-COVID layoffs happened, and poof nobody does that anymore.

I don't necessarily oppose a lot of the agenda that the employee advocates were pushing for, it was the pitchfork mob tactics that went hand in hand with those people. And without those loud people, the companies have very rapidly pursued much more diabolical ends.