Yep, the progressivist movement has been thoroughly co-opted and that is why corporate interests have not pushed back against it. So what if they have to create a new division of Diversity-Equity-Inclusion and hire another VP to head it? So what if they have to hire some number of 'diverse' VPs and others for their public image. As long as those hires don't rock the corporate boat (and they won't), it's cheap virtue-washing and good public relations.
It's especially helpful that the progressivists focus on feelings of victimhood based on past events, decades or centuries ago, because those feelings can be assuaged, massaged, and milked with no effect at all on present or future events. Yes, let's all get together and feel terrible about what happened to Emmett Till in 1955. Of course, what happened to him really was awful, but there's no going back in time to fix that. So it's wasted emotion. But strong emotion, which makes you feel more alive, for a little while. It's milking the past for negative emotions, combined with the feeling that you, in contrast, are so much better than those evildoers. Which is the same little jolt you get from watching the morning news program (Good Morning America, especially), which is all made of emotion-pushing stories. Pulling down statues makes you feel like a good person while you have done nothing useful.
It really does start to feel like Live Action Role-Playing and Congress starts to look like some sort of Kabuki theater production; all fierce-looking faces and dramatic poses.
Yep, the progressivist movement has been thoroughly co-opted and that is why corporate interests have not pushed back against it. So what if they have to create a new division of Diversity-Equity-Inclusion and hire another VP to head it? So what if they have to hire some number of 'diverse' VPs and others for their public image. As long as those hires don't rock the corporate boat (and they won't), it's cheap virtue-washing and good public relations.
It's especially helpful that the progressivists focus on feelings of victimhood based on past events, decades or centuries ago, because those feelings can be assuaged, massaged, and milked with no effect at all on present or future events. Yes, let's all get together and feel terrible about what happened to Emmett Till in 1955. Of course, what happened to him really was awful, but there's no going back in time to fix that. So it's wasted emotion. But strong emotion, which makes you feel more alive, for a little while. It's milking the past for negative emotions, combined with the feeling that you, in contrast, are so much better than those evildoers. Which is the same little jolt you get from watching the morning news program (Good Morning America, especially), which is all made of emotion-pushing stories. Pulling down statues makes you feel like a good person while you have done nothing useful.
It really does start to feel like Live Action Role-Playing and Congress starts to look like some sort of Kabuki theater production; all fierce-looking faces and dramatic poses.