Posted on 10/27/2021 9:47:05 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
Workplace chat software like Slack is probably the single most effective tool for making companies go woke. Organizing workers was a difficult challenge in companies that did not have unions. But while companies closely monitored union organizing, they actively encouraged the use of workplace chat software that made it all too easy for leftists to network, identify opponents, get them fired, and use those incidents to radicalize the company.
The second most effective tool is the identity politics affinity group.
Affinity groups or ERGs have become a popular tool by HR departments to organize internal woke caucuses. Corporate affinity groups are a counterpart of campus student groups and were promoted as a way to enable the same kind of experience in the workplace. Identity politics student groups, usually dominated by students and faculty from identity politics studies departments, were the biggest players in campus radicalization and protests. Affinity groups replicated black, Latino, and gay student groups in corporations with executives as their faculty sponsors. The executives were often picked based on their own student activist backgrounds.
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Thanks for posting this. Excellent read.
It is my firm belief that the world is ruled by activists and organizers.
Something the left is very good at and has armies of them to go into action at a moment’s notice, to raise hell and make life miserable for anyone who doesn’t toe the line.
We on the other hand are mostly asleep. Activism for us consists of waking up every couple of years and go vote, if we can be bothered to even do that.
For the left elections don’t mean much. They know how to get they’re way by other means.
It’s why they are crushing us in this culture war.
“Much as student groups had advocated defunding investments in oil companies or Israel on college campuses, affinity groups pressured banks to drop firearms manufacturers and Republicans. Companies that refused faced internal revolts, staged resignations, and pressure on key investors and shareholders that would claim the jobs of CEOs and principled leaders.”
A great recent example of that is a group of activists who owned 0.1% of Exxon succeeding in replacing 3 board members with their hand picked environazis in order to get Exxon, an oil company, to go “green”.
What conservatives need to discover is - does some intrinsic feature of the Internet favor radicalism? Does instant global communication effect how people think simply because it is instantaneous and global? Are the social norms of ANY culture challenged by people talking to each other on a scale never before experienced on Planet Earth? Maybe we better figure that out.
The leftists preach a simplistic message, they get people to group themselves according to “identity” and stir up anger and resentment. Social media seems to work efficiently for things like this.
“Exclusion, from the marketplace of ideas, from public and private spaces, from employment and finally life, has been equated to safety for the “oppressed” who cannot be safe without the power to oppress.”
Orwell would be proud.
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