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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 211: The BS and hypocrisy of corporate wokeism. Companies pretend to care to distract us from their misdeeds
Description: P&C drink and review Pilsner Urquell, then discuss how businesses are using wokeness as a smokescreen to pretend to be virtuous.
The boys discuss what "woke" means, then review some of the work of Vivek Ramaswami.
Corporate wokeness is all a magic trick. They keep our eyes on woke BS to keep our attention away from their misdeeds. "Never mind that we use Chinese slave labor. Look at the rainbow flag on our LinkedIn profile!"
Wokeness has become a substitute for religion and traditional morality for many companies. It's filling a gap...