Woke Capital incarnate. pic.twitter.com/KHlfMzjOt9
— Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) November 4, 2021
How is this real?
Every company is going to open their meetings by listing everyone who supposedly lived on the land they are standing on?
Microsoft is literally an evil multinational corporation, and could never be considered “morally good” in any Christian system – or any other moral order that existed before 2020 for that matter.
But wokeness allows an evil multinational corporation to be morally superior to a working class white guy complaining about his 14-year-old daughter being sodomized in the school bathroom by a tranny.
RT:
Microsoft’s virtual conference Ignite 2021 was all about hybrid work, metaverse and the cloud, but it opened with “land acknowledgments” to local native tribes and featured speakers describing their race and preferred pronouns.
The virtual event that ran between Tuesday and Thursday had more than 200,000 attendees across the world and featured speakers from CEO Satya Nadella to project and marketing managers speaking about Microsoft’s plans for the future.
Before any of that could happen, however, senior program manager Allison Weins had a ritual to perform.
“We need to acknowledge that the land where the Microsoft campus is situated was is traditionally occupied by the Sammamish, Duwamish, Snoqualmie, Suquamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Tulalip, and other coast Salish people since time immemorial,” Weins said, “a people who are still continuing to honor and bring to light their amazing heritage.”
Weins then described herself as an “Asian and white female with dark brown hair wearing a red sleeveless top,” with her colleague Seth Juarez adding he was “a tall hispanic male wearing a blue shirt and khaki pants.”
Digital entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan shared a clip of their opening remarks on Thursday, describing it as “woke capital incarnate.” He followed it with another short video, featuring two more Microsoft employees – Natalia Godyla and Nic Fillingham – introducing themselves in a similar fashion.
“I’m a Caucasian man with glasses and a beard. I go by he/him and I’m a security evangelist,” Fillingham said.
Why are their clothes a part of their race/gender identity now?
I’ve never even seen this before today. Did I miss something? When did the issue of clothes and hair styles enter into this?
At this point, they’re just making this stuff dumber and dumber for the sole reason of trying to dazzle and confuse people. They want you to be worried, they want you to be ridiculous. Women and soys have been trying to do this “Indian burial grounds and pronouns” thing for like a year now, so now they’re going to start listing off their fashion choices so that they go to the next degree of “I don’t understand this at all but I’m going to do it because Microsoft says it is moral to do it.”
The pseudonymous economy is preferable to ritualistic announcements of immutable characteristics. It would be more accessible for the disabled as well.
It’s not everyone’s ideal outcome, but it’s far better than this.pic.twitter.com/uSDZnt2Vla
— Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) November 4, 2021
I reached out to @nicfill to ask why they introduced themselves this way.
Apparently, it was to help vision-impaired people distinguish between speakers.
Personally, I still have serious concerns about this way of emphasizing racial labels, but this does add helpful context. pic.twitter.com/j726HTt1LE
— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) November 4, 2021
Land acknowledgements are such nonsense… if you're that concerned, why aren't you giving the land back?
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) November 4, 2021