woke culture

DEI in the Front, ‘Anti-Zionist’ in the Back – HotAir

Reading this story on the new campus litmus test really brought home for me the absolutely hypocrisy of leftist students on campus. They are simultaneously the biggest supporters of of DEI (emphasis on inclusion) and also the most extreme proponents of shunning people they consider beyond the pale, especially those who support the existence of […]

The Hims Edition – HotAir

The CEO of Hims, a telehealth and online pharmacy, is backtracking on a controversial tweet he published last week.  Andrew Dudum found out the hard way that is it best for CEOs, especially those of publicly traded companies, to keep their personal opinions to themselves. He tweeted that he is “eager” to hire pro-Hamas protesters. […]

Respecting a 16 Year Old Runaway’s Pronouns – HotAir

This story normally would be every parent’s nightmare, and why teenagers are such a pain in the asterisk in general. I read a story in the San Francisco Chronicle this morning that was frightening for what had happened. Mint Butterfield, the teenage child of Slack co-founder and former CEO Stewart Butterfield, was reported missing Tuesday, […]

Iger Beats Peltz In Battle for Disney Board – HotAir

I feel like I oughta dump a “Wave g’night, Mouse” in here somewhere. It looks like their juvenile “how to vote” in the proxy war cartoon appeal to the lowest common cult member worked. Disney shareholders fell for the poison apple, hook, line, and stinker. It’s official: Disney shareholders shot down activist investor Nelson Peltz‘s […]

Woke AI Was No Mistake — It Was Intentional – HotAir

“When you have a broken culture,” Shaun Maguire laments, “you’re just going to keep creating broken products. The Google Gemini images merely confirmed what I already knew.” Maguire is no disinterested observer, either. He spent three years as an investment partner at Google Ventures, until its relentless DEI authoritarianism forced him to look elsewhere for […]