Episode 107: A Week in the End of Woke

In advance of Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20th companies such as Meta, Walmart, McDonalds, and others, have announced the scrapping of their DEI policies. We discuss that political shift and also lasts weeks criticism of the LA Fire Departments DEI policies that led to the circulation of some inadvertently comical clips of fire fighters espousing the need to 'look like' the people you're saving. We also wonder whether Mark Zuckerberg’s metamorphosis into a jujitsu ‘bro’ and change of political allegiance is authentic or if it’s simply part doing what’s best for his company. Plus, whether Canada should join American (Hannah is ready to enlist!), the competence rhetoric of the ‘anti woke’ right, the central point people get wrong about social construction, mixed sex platoons in the army, and the feminisation of workplaces that creates emphasis on who you are rather than what you do.