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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Replying to @sonyaellenmann
having worked at walmart as a teenager I can assure you $8/hr service sector employees take mandatory training sessions imposed by corporate with the utmost seriousness
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Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann
because that's the other thing, even if implicit bias training itself wasn't bullshit, any kind of training like this (food safety, osha nonsense, etc) is viewed as bullshit lol
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Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann
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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Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann
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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Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann
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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Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann
actually I guess if you think about it it's more like exorcism than anything
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