1) Starbucks closing 8k stores to do implicit bias training is a significant corporate gesture, as noted below. 2) Implicit bias training doesn't actually work, so I'm inclined to interpret Starbucks' move, however costly, as being woke marketing more than anything else.https://twitter.com/dansmithphd/status/986310664221347841 …
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I don't think "woke marketing" (cf the "we made doritos gay" thing, galaxybrain ben and jerry's tweets) is really correct, this is more, woke damage control?
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the difference being the former is "we wanna sell stuff" the latter is "we have a problem and need to fix it"
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whether "the problem" is seen as unwokeness (credulous) or bad PR (cynical) the course of action is basically the same
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find a D&I racketeer and pay them to tell you what to do, and by implementing their demands you earnestly believe you solve the problem
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actually I guess if you think about it it's more like exorcism than anything
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you've got to play the long game; think about the cool, kitschy 2010's nostalgia feelings we'll get when we look back at this training 30 years from nowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ-JBFXh2IU …
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Empathy, either you have it or you don't?
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