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> It's extremely heavily left-biased due to the company running it and due to the training set. A lot of Reddit influence too, which is the unhinged left.

Mate I'm an avowed, horribly obnoxious communist, and I can stake what little reputation I have left on the fact that Reddit in aggregate is absolutely not leftist. Where are you getting this idea?

This is a meme I've been seeing time and time again. Why did Disney have a black mermaid? Cause it's run by commie socialist woke mindrot bluehairs? Disney? Disney is run by communists?

https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/walt-disne...

> employment-related offenses

> penalty total: $9,679,238

> The Walt Disney Co.

> wage and hour violation

> penalty amount: $3,800,000

What you're seeing as some kind of leftist censorship is just capitalism. Disney did a black mermaid because some combination of inclusivity drives good sales + watching a movie that angers reactionaries is a way that american liberals can stabilize their own identities as progressives without actually doing anything that hard.

Take any example of companies "going woke" and the answer is always the same: it was more profitable. Further evidence, see any company that went reactionary, they regularly just collapse and are usually not all that profitable. Trump's Twitter, voat.

Hell, even Fox News doesn't dare misgender someone in their articles. Note that when talking about trans people, they always use the person's name as a proper noun, they never use a pronoun, gendered or otherwise.

Unless you're going to try to argue that capitalism is somehow leftist, how do you justify your theory that these very not-leftist companies are "going woke?"

Or shit, maybe they are going woke, and american liberals are leftist (they're not), then, tell me why these silly american socialists have so much money they can force through consumer action alone their ideology on all of America? I thought socialism didn't work and only resulted in poverty? I thought blue haired woke mindrot NPCs are all poor and lazy? So why do so many companies "cater to them?"

OpenAI's investors are Microsoft, Bedrock Capital, Sequoia Capital, Andreesen Horowitz, and Y Combinator. These are leftist institutions? These are organizations that are interested in the demise of capitalism?



"Take any example of companies "going woke" and the answer is always the same: it was more profitable."

[Citation needed.]

How do you even measure such stuff as "the effect of wokeness on profitability"? Notoriously, even in politically-neutral activity such as advertising it is nigh impossible to tease out its real impact on revenue and profits. Does Tesla suffer from low profitability because its owner is notoriously non-PC?

I have a different explanation. All big organizations, not just for-profit companies, have a huge principal-agent problem, where internal infighting among several cliques for dominance slowly starts to dominate the original externally-oriented goals. "Going woke" can plausibly be interpreted as a side effect of such internal power struggle.

As an analogy from a different field of human activity: I am old enough to remember the Soviet Union; factional conflicts within the politburo eventually led to the collapse of the entire empire and independence of the more developed nations, some of which have previously been under imperial control of Russia for centuries.


> Take any example of companies "going woke" and the answer is always the same: it was more profitable.

Gillette going woke in 2019 was definitely not profitable.


P&G CFO believes dropping profits had more to do with beards being more popular than anything else: https://qz.com/1680613/pgs-gillette-writes-off-8-billion-as-...

I vaguely remember a somewhat cringey commercial but, did you have evidence indicating this drove down sales further?




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