Remember when Republicans kept going on about “woke capitalism” — the plague of corporate HR departments that were forcing their values down the throats of helpless employees? Back in 2021 while the right was still fine-tuning its efforts to co-opt working class politics from the Sanders socialists it hit upon a winning formula: pretend that the mandatory sexual harassment training video you have to sit through every year is the greatest force of oppression in America today. What followed was a solid year or two of freaking out over Robin Deangelo quotes and pointing at McDonald’s celebrating Black History Month as proof that the bourgeoisie was trying to brainwash ordinary Americans with something called Critical Race Theory.
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