[overgard]

I think a lot of these people don't bring much to the table professionally, so they use woke call out culture to implicitly threaten those around them to treat them with kid gloves and give them a wide birth. I doubt these companies feel that sad when people like that leave.

[chickenmonkey]

This is a broad generalisation without supporting evidence - not sure if this helps improve the quality of the discussion. Can you substantiate your statement further?

[fighterpilot]

There's research that shows woke signalling is highly correlated with both psychopathic traits and narcissistic traits.

The correlation is around 0.3-0.5.

That's evidence that it's used actively as a tool to gain either social status or something else.

[tolbish]

The study you pointed to indicates that these psychopathic/narcissistic traits apply to virtuous victimhood signalers on both the woke ("Recognize your privilege") and the anti-woke ("The real racists are all on the left") side of thing.

[infinitezest]

Do you happen to have a link to that research handy?

[fighterpilot]

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32614222/

[xwdv]

I think there is something to this theory IMO. Time spent being an activist is essentially time not spent honing your craft.

[bradlys]

As opposed to the people who spend their time just meandering on Reddit/HN in various non-technical posts...?

I think it’s a bad argument to say that those who aren’t activists are also those are who better at their jobs because those who don’t do activism must be spending their time honing their craft. Just because you’re doing one not doing one activity doesn’t mean you’re doing one other. The set of activities that exist is not (activism, honing craft) - it is a much bigger set of possibilities.

[dtjb]

lol this thread is off the rails

[fancyfish]

berth