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Allan's avatar

That story could be about academia as well. The path out of embedded woke-ism is hard to see in industries where 90+ percent of the workers and management are from the left and far left. This reads like a science fiction description of some sort of soft Stalinism.

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Les Vitailles's avatar

Not so soft Stalinism when professors of medicine have to issue public apologies for using the term "pregnant women". The woke term is "birthing people", a step too far even for Stalin's favorite geneticist Trofym Lysenko.

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Ned Liston's avatar

I was reminded of Lysenko when reading the early reporting on our novel virus, from our "scientists." https://scareballoon.substack.com/p/plague-journal-may-2020-yellow-journalism

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Schu's avatar

It seems to have infected office worker culture everywhere too. Even big construction companies have monthly DEI messaging from HR. I'll be damned if I ever leave the field and end up dealing with that crap in the office full time.

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miles.mcstylez's avatar

Having moved to the office, the HR fluff is easier to tune out than you think. That said, if employees start getting conscripted into mandatory diversity/sensitivity training sessions, then it's time to update the ol' resume.

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