For the actually caring (ie. not pseudo-caring) readers who are looking to do good in the world without the artifice of woke ideology, the author recommends looking into becoming harmless.
The first step to resist or undo Woke Invasion in your organization (or your psyche) is to thoroughly understand its creed Critical Race Theory, so as to uncover the fact that generally speaking woke disciples care less about the problems in the world than assuaging their self-centered ideological feelings. 1 The next step, obviously, is then to effectuate an elimination of the wannabe woke invaders from your organization by instituting a culture based on common sense values stripped of identity politics.
Case studies
Organizations
A sample of tech companies successfully extricating themselves out of Woke Invasion is presented below. What level of diplomacy you choose in your tactic is up to you; Brian Armstrong (Coinbase) and DHH (Basecamp) were demonstrably more diplomatic than Jesse Powell (Kraken).
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Coinbase: Coinbase is a mission focused company
- Brian Armstrong, in Oct 2022 (2 years latter): “It was one of the best things I’ve ever done for the company because now we’re fully aligned, making faster progress, and everybody who joins the company knows what they’re signing up for.” (The Tim Feriss Show)
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Basecamp: Summary by u/Amadanb
- DHH, in Dec 2021: “If we’ve passed peak “woke”, and I sure hope we have, may it be followed soon thereafter with peak politics too.” – Are we past peak “woke”?
- DHH, in Nov 2022: “The DEI hegemony has gone from virtually unchallenged to come under severe stress.” – The waning days of DEI’s dominance
- DHH, in Apr, 2023: “It’s far easier to stand up to the [woke] golems today than it was a couple of years ago. At least in the realm of business. (Things still look pretty rough in academia!)” – Standing up to golems
- sriramk (quotting DHH and others), in Jan, 2024: “There is a vibe shift.” – https://twitter.com/sriramk/status/1742270488427041105
- DHH in podcast with sriramk, in Jan, 2024: https://twitter.com/sriramk/status/1750221074900328602?t=1388
- Kraken: https://twitter.com/jespow/status/1536978826344792064
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Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1648128321505427456
Tucker: “So 80% [of Twitter staff] left [when you took over]. How do you run it with only 20% of the staff?
Elon: “It turns out you don’t need that many people to run Twitter.”
Tucker: “But that’s a lot.”
Elon: “If you’re not trying to run some glorified activist organization”
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Shopify
- CEO says calls to ban @libsoftiktok a bad faith narrative, and Elon supports Toby.
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Alexandr Wang at Scale:
There is a mistaken belief that meritocracy somehow conflicts with diversity. I strongly disagree. No group has a monopoly on excellence. A hiring process based on merit will naturally yield a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas. Achieving this requires casting a wide net for talent and then objectively selecting the best, without bias in any direction. We will not pick winners and losers based on someone being the “right” or “wrong” race, gender, and so on. It should be needless to say, and yet it needs saying: doing so would be racist and sexist, not to mention illegal. https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1801331034916851995
Organizations to watch out for
- Meta: Meta goes no politics at work (and nobody cares), Dec, 2022.
- Google: Mission First, Apr 18, 2024: “ultimately we are a workplace and our policies and expectations are clear: this is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics.”
- Microsoft:
Ideologies to watch out for
- Gender Ideology
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Affirmative Action
- US Supreme Court overturns race-based college admissions: “[Zhao’s] group argued that affirmative action had negatively affected Asian American students’ odds of enrolment at elite schools. “This decision will preserve meritocracy, which is the bedrock of the American dream” Mr Zhao said outside the court.”
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DEI
- The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer: “As evidence continues to mount that corporate and university DEI programs tend to increase racial hostility in a workplace, major companies across America are finally laying off DEI officers and getting rid of senior DEI roles.”
Individuals
If there is one case study that I must pick as my favourite, it would be that of Grace.
- Grace: a report of how she resisted Woke Invasion in her non-profit organization in around year 2010, through clearly understanding Critical Race Theory.
- Pedro Domingos: Beating Back Cancel Culture: A Case Study from the Field of Artificial Intelligence
Expose them
You may then publicly expose 2 the woke charlatans, as these do:
- A Slovak who studied in the USA: Today’s America reminds me of the times of our totalitarianism (Original)
- Survivor Of Mao’s China Stuns School Board With Chilling Warning About Critical Race Theory
- North Korean defector slams ‘woke’ US schools
- 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, likening the conformity of political correctness in the United States to the Cultural Revolution’s ideological cleansing
- David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH): Are we past peak “woke”?
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So what would our tech bro saviors have found out if they had actually bothered to talk to anyone black? Well, at least this black person would have told them that calling the branch master is not offensive. Furthermore, black people as a collective are not triggered by words like master wherever they appear in the wild. Context people, context. Banning a word because you think it’s offensive is basically telling us what we should and should not be offended by. There are bigger problems around inclusivity that deserve our time, let us put this drive for change into those.
- Yours truly: Srid's notes on Wokeism
It is vital to realize that the woke really have no moral high ground. They are as corrupt (psychologically speaking) as the groups they criticize.
A lot of people still think all these [woke] folks are ‘nice but misguided’.
No. Some are. Especially the younger ones.
But a lot of malicious, wicked people hide under the ‘social justice’ umbrella and take glee in hurting others. Emotionally and physically. Then they play victim. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1644199998496677889