Wikipedia defines "Woke" as:
... a political term of African American origin referring to a perceived awareness of issues concerning social justice and racial justice. It is derived from the African-American Vernacular English expression "stay woke", whose grammatical aspect refers to a continuing awareness of these issues. By the late 2010s, woke had been adopted as a more generic slang term and has been the subject of memes and ironic usage. Its widespread use since 2014 is a result of the Black Lives Matter movement...
In other words, to "Get Woke" is like being in the Matrix and taking the red pill. You get a sudden understanding of what's really going on and find out you were wrong about much of what you understood to be truth. This is all well and good.
However, there seems to be a developing phenomenon identified by the term "Get Woke, Go Broke", which expresses the opinion that when organizations "Get Woke" to politically correct actions, those same actions usually result in a massive loss of income.
• "Terminator: Dark Fate" departs from its action/adventure origins to espouse feminist themes and has since bombed at the box office.
• Magazines with traditionally male-dominated readership have experienced downfalls in revenues since switching to less chauvinistic formats.
• The Emmy Awards shows have lost viewership since awardees were allowed more leeway in expressing their politically-correct opinions on politics, the environment, morality, and other hot-button topics.
• Dick’s Sporting Goods warned investors that its decision to remove certain "assault-style" weapons from its Field & Stream stores cost it dearly and may limit its future gains.
• The Game Of Thrones prequel was scrapped before its release due to the overabundance of identity politics.
• After implementing social justice measures in the Boy Scouts to be more inclusive -- allowing girls into the ranks and openly gay scouts and scout leaders, as well as decades of sexual abuse kept under wraps now coming to to the surface -- the 109-year old organization lost a ton of memberships and was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
(... many more examples ...)
Am I missing something here, or are political correctness and identity politics bad for business?
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