Thursday, February 23, 2023

The Power of Woke: How Leftist Ideology Is Undermining Our Society and Economy

 

  • Tags “It’s an important part of society whether you like it or not,” lexicologist Tony Thorne, referring to “wokeness,” told The New Yorker’s David Remnick in January.

  • Nevertheless, the argument runs, we can decenter the power relations bolstering this system and subvert the techniques employed, wittingly or unwittingly, to preserve extant hierarchies.

  • Yet businesses, which, of course, are made up of people, including disaffected Gen Zs and millennials, develop alongside this sustained effort to dismantle structures and introduce novel organizing principles for society.

  • It has only been a century since buying and selling shares in publicly traded companies became commonplace among workers and households.

  • In 2023, however, institutional investors such as hedge funds and asset management firms engage boards of directors, exercise proxy voting, and issue shareholder reports with the primary goal of politicizing companies.

  • For the woke, “silence is violence”; there’s no middle ground; you must speak up; and increasingly for their opponents as well, you must choose sides.

https://mises.org/wire/power-woke-how-leftist-ideology-undermining-our-society-and-economy

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