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Guest Column: Going Woke – What’s Really Going On?

Inside ESGs and the broader bid to centralize power in America …

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by DIANE HARDY  Why does corporate “woke-ism” continue to grow despite consumer pushback
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Red Uprising June 19, 2023 at 9:58 am

Woke just means liberal.

Slavery existed? MLK wrote letters? Bad cops sometimes murder black people for no good reason and we should probably do something about it? Woke.

Some people are gay? Trans folks deserve pretty reasonable access to medical care? Just don’t be a dick to LGBTQ+ people? Woke.

Global warming is real? Investing in renewable resources is a good idea? Just do the bare minimum to pretend like you’re making a difference? Woke.

Women shouldn’t be discriminated against in the workplace? Women should keep their right to vote? Women should have full control over their own bodies? Woke.

Mass shootings are an epidemic? We should actually talk about it, right now, since it happens all the time? Consider passing even the tiniest legislation, adopting gun control measures even lawful gun owners support? Woke.

The 2020 election wasn’t stolen? Trump just lost because he’s an asshole? None of the people pushing the fraudulent election narrative ever showed anything close to proof and were just grifting the entire time? Woke.

Vaccines are good, actually? Vaccines work? We should probably avoid poisoning peoples’ minds with anti-vax nonsense solely for political points because it will do very real damage over the next several decades? Woke.

It’s all just standard liberalism. Not even leftism – this is just neoliberalism with a smiley face mask. Carbon credits being a lucrative scam, rainbow capitalism in 1 out of 12 months of the year, a statue of George Floyd while more African American men continue to get murdered like him… The issues get mentioned for 5 minutes and then swept under the rug if it isn’t making someone money. You hear more about all of this from the right, because they’re complaining about what little we do, and they complain non stop.

Do little, do nothing, two sides of the same neoliberal coin.

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Observer (the real one) June 19, 2023 at 4:06 pm

Excellent article, Ms Hardy! It is scary how this works. Your article should be a required read for every thinking person.

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Anonymous June 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm

I thought conservatives were free market capitalists. Shouldn’t a company decide what they want to do and then deal with the positive or negative consequences?

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Mike June 22, 2023 at 5:20 pm

So if somebody threatens to burn down your business unless you pay them monthly ‘protection’ payments, you should come to a decision about whether to pay the extortion demands or not and simply “deal with the positive or negative consequences”?

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Red wall June 19, 2023 at 5:49 pm

It won’t be long now that if you don’t comply , you won’t be able to buy or sale or keep your utilities on.
No water? no food. I believe this is how they are going to get everybody’s guns.
Could be the mark of the beast coming

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Michael Voaden June 20, 2023 at 9:53 am

This isn’t about wokism. It’s about complete corporate governance control over the populace. They create these issues out of thin air, use the corporate mega phone, false flags to make it seem real and then deliver a solution that is in the best interest, but it’s self interest and all our sovereignty chips away until we are herded into 15 minute prisons and 24-7 surveillance. Time to stop dancing around the WEF agenda for world tyrannical goverence

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Ralph Hightower Top fan June 20, 2023 at 10:22 am

Bless her heart. Trying to enforce one-party rule. Right now, the Republican Party is dead. It is currently the Trumpian Party. As Senator Lindsey Graham (T-SC) once said, “The Republican Party is bat-shit crazy.”

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Mark Houde Top fan June 20, 2023 at 4:56 pm

A very thoughtful explanation. As far as I’m concerned, ESG and CEI scores are just a method for moving humanity towards a socialist system. Capitalism, meritocracy, tolerance and freedom are the foundations of America that made it the greatest country the world has ever known. ESG and CEI are tools of a privileged class to become a ruling class. Sorry, it won’t happen.

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Keebler June 22, 2023 at 11:29 pm

Great article. These two sentences from your piece explain it in a nutshell: ‘Through ESG and CEI scoring, social and political agendas can now be implemented quite efficiently. Things that would never be popular in the voting booth are now easily achievable.’ Truly free markets are out. Social control is in. Conform or be crushed. Although it smacks of China, it seems more likely the new world order crowd set this ball rolling.

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Calvin Milam July 5, 2023 at 8:47 pm

Change is impossible in sleep. The possibility of development, in individuals and societies, requires being awake.

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Ralph Hightower Top fan July 21, 2023 at 11:27 am

From dictionary.com:
Usually Disparaging. promotion of liberal progressive ideology and policy as an expression of sensitivity to systemic injustices and prejudices:
She worked for nearly a decade at the university before she finally tired of the influence of wokeism.
“The only religion allowed around here is wokeism,” he complained.
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There is no ‘E’ or ‘G’ in wokeism.

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CongareeCatfish Top fan July 21, 2023 at 1:46 pm

Take the publicly posted party platform bullet points of the U.S. National Democratic Party (or any other similar Marxist-Leninist-Maoist political organization in Canada or Europe) and line it up alongside any of the major ESG/DEI organizations’ stated goals and metrics, and you will simply see that, aside from the outright elimination of personal property rights or mass wealth confiscation and transfer, there is not a shred of difference between the two. ESG /DEI is imply the DNC’s Maoist doctrine applied and encoded into the corporate world, seeking to permeate down into every aspect of life that this poison can reach. You got to hand it to them – they’ve been incredibly successful at this soft-coup psy-op type stuff for the last 20+ years while the average American barely feels or sees the velvet noose being slipped around their neck. Lavrentiy Beria would have been proud to have pulled off such a feat.

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Anonymous November 9, 2023 at 5:04 pm

There is no connection between the Democratic Party and Maoism. There is, however, a well-known connection between the Republican Party and Falun Gong. That’s where the Chinese style is coming from. ESGs are a Republican Psy-Op. However, if businesses think they’re real, and diversify their hiring, weed out discrimatory practices, cut carbon emissions, etc., there’s not much to complain about.

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