When did corporate giants like KPMG, Proctor and Gamble, and Accenture become extensions of the campus safe space culture? Rainbow lanyards inspired by the LGBT Pride flag, email sign-offs to say that you are an ‘ally’ of minorities, and so-called unconscious bias training – these are just some of the things that corporations are encouraging their employees to take part in to demonstrate their wokeness. So, is this meaningless virtue-signalling or actually helpful to the minorities these measures profess to protecting? Toby Young bashes the entire woke corporate culture in this week’s cover article, and goes head to head in a fierce back and forth with our guest Berkeley Wilde, a diversity consultant whose firm, Diversity Trust, offers exactly these sorts of workshops and training to corporate and public sector clients. It’s a no-holds-barred fisticuffs, not for the faint-hearted:
Meanwhile, the woke left’s liberal sweetheart Justin Trudeau is having some trouble of his own, after it transpired that he wasn’t as sweet as he seemed.
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