#1548 The War on Woke Pits the GOP Against Their Usual Allies in Big Business
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 3/14/2023
Today, we take a look at the rise of "woke capitalism" as the cudgel now being wielded against any corporations who dare to seek profits by appealing to the majority of potential customers who prefer progressive social positions to that of Republicans.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Dissecting the War on Woke | Part One - Shanspeare - Air Date - Air Date 1-13-23
Republicans are at war with Woke
Ch. 2: CRT, ESG: Don't fall for the Right's pretend 'Culture Wars' - The Bradcast - Air Date 3-2-23
We debunk Republicans' new fake culture war outrage attacking a mundane, decades-old investment framework known as ESG in which corporations and investment managers consider factors like the environment when making business decisions.
Ch. 3: Who Is Afraid of Woke Capitalism? - After Hours - Air Date 11-2-22
Mihir, Felix and NYU’s Dolly Chugh discuss the pressure on business leaders to conform to the demands of woke capitalism. Should you give in? Push back? What are the risks and rewards?
In the last few years, Republicans have been increasingly concerned about a “woke” corporate agenda, but they're missing the real problem. It’s not that corporations and establishment politicians care too much about racial or gender justice.
Jesse talks about the pathetic Republican response to the entirely predictable failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). James Comer substituted leadership and policy acumen for the expected deflection and blamed the bank's collapse on being WOKE
Greg Walters explains the current conflict between the Republican Party and corporate America.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 7: BlackRock: The Devil's Banker. Do as I say, not as I do. - Unf*cking The Republic - Air Date 9-17-22
BlackRock is at the center of a storm in conservative media for pushing companies too hard toward sustainability. That he’s too woke. Liberals think he’s behind the housing crisis. Conspiracy theorists believe he’s in the pocket of the Chinese government.
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 8: Final comments on how the left really brought about woke capitalism
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| 0:00.0 | During today's episode, I'm going to be telling you about a progressive show I think you |
| 0:06.4 | should check out. |
| 0:07.4 | It's the Laura Flanders show, which you may have heard of because they've been doing their |
| 0:11.4 | good work for a long, long time now. |
| 0:14.6 | So keep an ear out mid-show when I tell you more about it. |
| 0:18.2 | And now, welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast in which we should take |
| 0:23.1 | a look at the rise of woke capitalism, or more specifically the war on woke capitalism, |
| 0:30.4 | which is the cudgel now being wielded against any corporations who dare to seek profits |
| 0:36.2 | by appealing to the majority of potential customers who prefer progressive social positions to |
| 0:42.1 | that of Republicans. |
| 0:43.5 | Clips today are from Sand Spear on YouTube, The Bradcast, After Hours from the Ted Audio |
| 0:49.9 | Collective, More Perfect Union, The Dolomar Daily, and The Couch Report from Vice News with |
| 0:56.4 | an additional members only clip from Uneffing the Republic. |
| 1:00.2 | And stay tuned to the end where I will do my best to explain better than others have |
| 1:05.5 | been where woke capitalism came from. |
| 1:14.8 | In recent years, there has been a political undertaking of a word quite familiar within |
| 1:19.3 | the Black community. |
| 1:21.0 | Woke. |
| 1:22.0 | The term started as slang, and was more often spoken aloud than written down, making the exact |
| 1:27.2 | etymology unclear. |
| 1:28.8 | What we do know is that I can be traced back at least to the 1920s, and was used as a |
| 1:34.0 | Black for an acular variant of the term woken or awake. |
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