Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ 6 Mar 2022 20:35)
I find it hilarious that you can see through the guise on this issue, but think woke culture is prevalent or influential in American organizations.
It's literally the same thing. Virtue signaling without any real commitment to changes.
Woke culture is producing tangible results which I consider negative. Large organizations and corporations having equal opportunity officers and guidelines that you do not cross if you value your career. Job postings which explicitly state that female applicants will be favored in case of similar qualifications. (In some cases, this requirement is even lowered to "... mostly similar qualification", i.e. a female candidate with worse qualifications will be favored if the difference is "close enough".)
I also vividly remember how my university department tried to fill a vacant professorship and produced a list with 3 qualified candidates we wanted to interview. It was slapped down hard, accompanied by a harsh admonition, by the higher-ups in university leadership because the list didn't include a female candidate and that was completely unthinkable. We had to do it again and include a blatantly unqualified woman on our list of proposed calls who acted as a token candidate.
Or look at progressive DAs across American cities who outright refuse to prosecute crime because "*something something... RaCiAl JuStIcE!!!11"
Those are just some specific examples, but the larger point should be clear: woke culture does have influence in organizations, and its influence has been steadily growing in recent years. Corporations have no problem whatsoever with racial/gender quotas, regulating speech and so on as long as their profits are protected. Dito for government agencies as long as they retain their funding and power.