Canadian Politics Today

1. Anti-Woke bank not doing well
2. "Banks have gone too far left" they say
3. They will focus on shareholder value - presumably because other banks don't
4. There's a sucker born every minute

https://archive.ph/bM9LW

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anti-woke-bank-closes-3-months-peter-thiel-toby-neugebauer_n_638006b4e4b06ef4a542ab6d

It closed 🔒🔒🔒

Providing value for money is actually something that's not rooted in rhetoric.

Apple, a company with a market cap of $2.25 TRILLION is Marxist. This is a bigger denial of reality than saying men can get pregnant lol.

Dickrider posts will be removed on sight. Keep that nonsense to the designated dickrider thread.

1. Lots of brands use wokeness as a marketing ploy, it was only matter of time before somebody tried the opposite.


2. I think that a lot of major brands, I suspect Apple among them, do a lot of progressive messaging to distract people from how greedy they are.  Like how every June companies adorn their websites and physical locations with Pride decor. You can't go anywhere in June without seeing rainbows and the new Progress Flag. Then in July...



 -k

1. You mean people start "woke banks" all the time to attract a customer base that hates anti-woke?  Because that would be the equivalent.

2. Yes, and there's no equivalent of that either.  There's no big brands touting themselves as anti-woke to get clients.

I can tell the corporate world is lying to me.  I don't think that they're able to be sincere about anything but shareholder return.

1. You mean people start "woke banks" all the time to attract a customer base that hates anti-woke?  Because that would be the equivalent.

2. Yes, and there's no equivalent of that either.  There's no big brands touting themselves as anti-woke to get clients.

Meh. I get what you're saying, but at its core the corporate virtue signalling efforts are an attempt at marketing to a hypothetical customer that wants to do business with a company that holds certain values.  And this "anti-woke bank" idea sounds like an effort to pander to a hypothetical customer that wants to do business with a completely different set of values. I don't see them as being particularly different in philosophy.

 -k

The way the school board is handling the Oakville teacher fiasco is a prime example. All their empathy is reserved for the trans individual; the boring cisgender women and girls get none of that "basic human empathy" stuff.

 

It's always a jump for me when people make a guess, with certainty, at what motivates institutions and corporations beyond the obvious which is:

-institutions don't want to get in trouble via their political nbosses
-corporations want to make money and therefore don't want to evoke boycotts

In the case of a school board, you seem to attribute wokeness to the people making the decisions here which ignores the highly volatile nature of the process.  And all of this topic ignores the rightness/wrongness of any of it.  I'm just talking pure pragmatism and self-interest.

For the school board you have an issue which is the political equivalent of C4 putty sitting there.  The board is faced with the forces of media, parents, woke mob (as you would call it), the anti-woke protestors and Freedom folk, teachers, unions, students - all in a circle around this purported cross-dressing troll - and nobody wants to grasp the hot potato.