GameStop CEO decries 'wokeness and DEI'
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He’s been trying to so hard to be an Elon of GME by being cryptic on Twitter, but ultimately all of his initiatives have fell flat — trading cards, selling hardware, crypto/NFT marketplace, trying to reposition itself as a platform.
Now he is trying to curry favors by riding the political wave. Almost seems like he is just trying so hard to keep it together by selling off assets.
the CEO's job is to generate that value. in-person game stores may not have much else, so he's getting that stock up however he can as long as he can.
GME is doomed, but I'll give him props for trying
And then reducing those classes down to either oppressed / oppressor.
It’s a highly reductive and juvenile way of looking at the world.
GP is right, most of the people complaining about "woke" are complaining about things they don't like, rather than having a particular, coherent theory as to why they don't like them.
And that's your definition of the word. Going by other people who use it unironically, you can't come to a consensus on what it means. Literally anytime there's any sort of representation, people scream woke. Person who use American Sign Language in a video game? That's so woke!
But let's go with your definition of the word. If you're treating everyone equally, while acknowledging and celebrating our differences, what's the issue?
People, who are obsessed with seeing woke in everything, apparently want to view everyone as amorphous blobs.
It's not so much reductive and juvenile as Wizard of Oz exposing the man-behind-the-curtain. Without being able to see clearly, it's not possible to change things to benefit more people.
Which is not at all just because it's now artificially "trendy" just like how dei/woke was.
The kind of wording he used is so unbecoming of a CEO, too. With any normal company, in any normal time, you'd see the market pummelling the stock. But these aren't normal times and GameStop is a weird meme stock.
Is there a "wokeness and DEI" movement in France? That has meaningful social or compliance costs? This is a country where the public response to the #MeToo movement was an open letter accusing Americans of being overreacting prudes.
We still authored the human rights declaration, so I guess we are woke since 1789 (with a lot of up and downs. Mostly downs).
We don't have DEI, though you aren't supposed to put a picture on your resume, and if someone can convince a judge a company is discriminatory, it get fined (in practice, only two egregious convictions in the past 10 years). Also you have a quota for people with disabilities if you have more than 49 employees, but it's really flexible (depends on the activity, and it's a tax incentive rather than a real quota like in the US). I guess that last point would be DEI.