[highwayman47]

It never was, however the mainstream media wanted you to think so

[voidfunc]

This mostly. A handful of very specific liberal and coastal areas drive this narrative... which guess where most media is generated?

You really only need to go about 30-40min inland from some of these places to see how normal/centrist most places are.

[A_D_E_P_T]

It's not even "places" -- not any more. It's driven by the extremely online. Twitter, in particular, is a bazaar of echo-chambers, and most of them push their own political and social agendas. (Left and right, the mechanism is the same.)

People get caught up in it, and then think that those opinions are normal. There is no "normative" frame of reference.

This has, of course, infected politics itself over the past 10 years.

[balls187]

I live in a liberal coastal area, and I can assure you it’s not woke.

There are/were attempts, such as thanking the Indians who lands we stole before every Kraken game.

[FrustratedMonky]

And the 'Right'.

I don't think I had ever heard of woke before the non-stop talking points from the 'Right'.

It always seemed like a drummed up issue to rile up their, Christian/Holocaust Denier/Civil War Loving, base.

[BearOso]

It's a distraction to keep everybody in-fighting to make them so focused on inconsequential things that they ignore the glaring wealth inequality.

[swayvil]

Ala Huxley

[LtWorf]

It was. But in the posturing way, not in the help anyone way.

edit: lol at the downvotes. Check the gini coefficient around the world and get back to me.

[api]

The main criticism I’ve always had about it is this: that it’s fake.

Take San Francisco as a prime example. It’s a place full of people who style themselves as progressive or “woke” or whatever but a starter home is unachievable to anyone without an exit event or a $400k salary. It has one of the widest rich/poor divisions of anywhere I’ve ever seen in the USA. Major industries include mass surveillance and addictive forms of media, and I have no idea how anyone who isn’t in a high six figure job can live well there let alone raise a family.

SF is not progressive at all, except in rhetoric.

[raxxorraxor]

I doubt many buy into this at all but yes, it shows that there is someone in the pipeline demanding such changes, which are frankly ridiculous. Be it government or some activists doesn't really matter, it doesn't really reflect the opinion of the majority of western consumers.

That liberal parties are being made fun of on topic like gender is a self inflicted fate, especially if such overreaching "education" is spread in completely unrelated products.

So yes, companies should get flak for it until it is corrected.