Ideas flow through financed institutions. The networks that control discourse over race and gender are human resource compliance divisions. HR specialists are networked and trained, and operate across most institutions in the country.
Today, multiple Democratic Senators (Menendez and Cortez-Masto) brought up a McKinsey study on how diversity and inclusion at a board level increases corporate profits. That's a racial justice frame. mckinsey.com/featured-insig…
One reason centralizers love wokeness is because it offers a handy moral language to extend HR compliance across a larger and larger group. People mock HR compliance like everyone thinks it's bad, but HR is an important force in society with many trained professionals.
There's a direct legal connection. Civil rights laws placed liability on firms, without circumscribing clear rules on how to obey. So executives turned to HR networks to operationalize the laws, and then judges and legislatures began relying on them too.
In other words, HR compliance is what a civil rights movement looks like when no one values labor itself.
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