Where Wokeness Went To Regroup

Wokeness Is In Retreat, But It Hasn't Been Fully Defeated 

There's been good news on the wokeness front recently, ad more companies have abandoned DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). 

The following companies dropped their woke DEI commitments:

1. Tractor Supply

2. John Deere

3. Ford Motors

4. Lowes

5. Harley-Davidson

6. Brown-Foreman Corp.

7. Molson Coord

8. Stanley Black and Decker

9. Toyota

10. Boeing

These companies represent over 1…

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) November 14, 2024

But a recent thread on X by :Wokal Distance" offered a warning: Wokeness hasn't been fully defeated yet; it's only in retreat. And it's found a new place to respawn, the leftwing X clone, Bluesky. 

Before we get to that thread, a couple of quick investing notes. 

1. In case you missed it, in our post last Monday ("Turning Bullish On Supermicro"), we noted that we had closed out our bearish options bet on Super Micro Computer (SMCI 31.24%↓), let our bullish options bet run, and bought more underlying shares before the stock spiked. Here's where we ended up at the end of the week:

   👉 Exited our put spread on $SMCI on Monday for a 48% loss.
   
   👉 Exited our call spread on $SMCI on Thursday for a 213% gain.
   
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Now onto that thread by Wokal Distance about where wokeness went to regroup. 

Where Wokeness Went To Regroup

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You can mock Bluesky all you want, but it has a VERY potent mixture of:

-Academics to create new woke theories
-activists to organize and develop new tactics
-bureaucrats to make institutions
-Artists to make/spread woke cultural products
-journalists to drive woke narratives

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) November 22, 2024

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If you think I'm joking, look at how effective TUMBLR was at spreading woke ideas and messaging through the culture.

The right always says "the left can't meme"– but tumblr meme'd transgender ideology so hard and so effectively they convinced society to believe men give birth

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) November 22, 2024

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When they got pushed back by Bush in the 2000's They went back into universities, NGO's, non-profits, etc and emerged on tumblr as "woke"

Now they got beat by Trump, and I promise you they are going to regroup, strategize, theorize, organize....and then counter attack

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) November 22, 2024

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We must understand the new woke social theories so we can effectively counter them

We have to make effective responses to new woke messaging and ideas

We need the ability to effectively counter the new media, information, and narrative warfare tactics the woke are creating

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) November 22, 2024

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Woke is not going away. They are going to try and consolidate their position while they regrpoup, theorize, strategize, and organize.

Wokeness is not dead, and if we don't get ready then in the not to distant future we are in for a another era just like 2016-2021

/fin

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) November 22, 2024