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Surprising / not surprising how woke coastal hiring practice coincides with blatant age discrimination.

"Woke" has nothing to do with it. That's a completely separate thing. Also, it doesn't exist. Black people don't use it anymore ("woke" came out of AAVE, before it became something for Tucker Carlson to trigger the right with) and most ardent leftists recognize that "woke capitalism" is strictly a performance.

Companies aren't going "woke" because they want to impose blue-state social justice on the population. They're doing this because (a) it's a way to make themselves look better in a country that is 2:1 against racism, sexism, transphobia, et al, without actually changing anything about how they operate, and (b) this "woke"/CRT bugbear is just another tool the very rich use to divide working people against each other.

Ageism is similar. Nothing makes capitalists happier than for us old working people and the young working people to hate each other. But we shouldn't. We're on the same team.