As an aside, is there a term for the kind of virtue signaling comment torrent this post is likely to elicit? Perhaps "Business Woke"?
do you think that anyone who posts a critique of worker-employer relations is just pretending? isn't a simpler explanation that they actually care about the issue?
If not, the commenter is contributing nothing but how boldly they can speak against a perceived evil, and is rightly dismissed as mere virtue signaling.
Is that an unfair criterion?
(This is a special case of the Goldilocks heuristic, that you shouldn't trust someone saying that "X is too low" unless they have a model for when X would be too high.)
I learned about "woke" a while ago and I dunno what's PC these days but it's a huge red flag to me of controlled speech and samethink.
It is samethink. A lot of people posting here hold these positions because they read them in the last story about these companies and they want to join in on the rabble. And discussion or nuance gets lost in this blizzard of conformity of opinion. It gets boring after a while.
The concept of being woke is a convenient cop-out to declare in a single word that yes you agree with all those things all those other people are saying.
Also get off my lawn. I'm cranky about fundamental principles I hold dear being distilled down to a slang word so that it fits Twitter culture conversations better.
As far as I can tell, woke is generally used as an adjective towards others (often pejoratively). Unironically claiming to be "woke" will generally elicit ridicule.