Honest question: do you have experience with or have you talked extensively with folks who work in tech or finance? My impression from reading your comments is that you don't, but I could be wrong. Finance and banking is decidedly non-woke behind closed doors, and tech is maybe 10% of employees who are very into ostentatious progressive causes, and 90% who are ambivalent.
Sure, the "people team" at firms like Google adding DEI trainings that lack nuance have a woke orientation, but such aspects are completely irrelevant to the C-suite and most of upper/middle management. And moreover, even trying to compare DEI at consumer-facing big tech like Google to a smaller b2b firm that doesn't deal with public clients doesn't make sense. Everyone in the industry knows that most diversity initiatives are borne out of market analysis of resulting increased consumer demand and/or just following the metagame so that you don't weirdly stand out for not having them, so companies like SVB that only work with business clients and also are in a sector where DEI is less common (banking vs. tech) has much less reason.
There's a reason George Santos lied in his history about being a portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs. The banking industry does not spending the whole day on woke initiatives, and Republican voters in the NYC metro area understand that (kind of ironic considering Santos's drag history, but I degress). Unironically this is another reason why I believe Desantis to be much more popular among the Republican base the South than in areas like the Northeast.
Interesting. This is some new data points for me. Thanks for sharing.
Perhaps I was overestimating how "political" things are on either side of corporate (West Texas vs Silicon Valley). Corporations do make use of woke in their PR (see: companies virtue-signalling by attaching themselves to BLM, for instance), but I guess the share of people who actually earnestly care about it that much is less than even I would have assumed it would be.
Not unsurprising too much though.
