Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, 35, slams US big business for going woke 'at the expense of the American people' (activist, Brown)

[uggabugga]

thank you mr. ramaswamy. someone had to say it.

Woke, Inc: Why I’m blowing whistle on how corporate America is poisoning society

"Why am I defecting? I’m fed up with corporate America’s game of pretending to care about justice in order to make money. It is quietly wreaking havoc on American democracy. It demands that a small group of investors and CEOs determine what’s good for society, rather than our democracy at large. This new trend has created a major cultural shift in America. It’s not just ruining companies. It’s polarizing our politics. It’s dividing our country to a breaking point. Worst of all, it’s concentrating the power to determine American values in the hands of a small group of capitalists, rather than in the hands of the American citizenry at large, which is where the dialogue about social values belongs. That’s not America, but a distortion of it.

Wokeness has remade American capitalism in its own image. Talk of being ‘‘woke” has morphed into a kind of catch-all term for progressive identity politics today. The phrase “Stay woke” was used from time to time by black civil rights activists over the last few decades, but it really took off only recently, when black protestors made it their catchphrase in the Ferguson protests in response to a police officer fatally shooting Michael Brown."