"In identity politics, it seems, the capitalist class spies a means through which it can justify itself, it can feel good about itself and it can carve out some kind of moral mission beyond making money..these corporates’ claim to progressive cred is still entirely phoney."
"while Sainsbury’s is offering safe spaces..to its black workers, it still battles with workers of all backgrounds over pay and conditions. In 2018..it tried to give its chief executive a £1million pay rise while giving 9,000 staff a pay cut." theguardian.com/business/2018/…
"the reason giant companies are so willing to embrace wokeness..it doesn’t cost them much. So much of identity politics is abstract and immaterial. We are exhorted to celebrate diversity, acknowledge historical wrongs and check our privilege. .talk, as they say, is cheap"
"Sainsbury’s recent pronouncements are regressive on the face of it. Suggesting black staff need some kind of therapeutic special dispensation is patronising in the extreme. But they are also a bit of a con...
... While woke capitalism might give the capitalists a warm feeling it does nothing for those at the bottom."

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