I’m guessing this is some chud news take, it was in reference to the cracker barrel culture war bs. Just really threw me off to hear an investment firm be called “woke”
I know two people who have toddlers, and both of those toddlers will call any food they don’t like “spicy”. The tomato is too spicy. This cheese is too spicy. This yogurt is too spicy. To them it just means a food they don’t like, probably because at some point they were given something actually spicy they didn’t like, and their parent said “Oh, is it too spicy?”. From there, they inferred that spicy meant bad. For a toddler, that’s not a bad inference to make.
A key difference is these kids are 3 years old, and your boss is presumably a grown adult. Some people really are less developed than toddlers.
Hey, my toddler is doing the same thing. Sour or temperature hot also equates to “spicy”
My mom is like this and she’s like 70
i’ve met multiple adults who called the weirdest shit “spicy” and i eventually narrowed down the common element to vinegar
“spicy” apparently just means “make tongue feel funny”
You’ve identified a key linguistic concept there. Hyponymy and hypernymy. It’s a stage of child language development/language acquisition
In linguistics, a hyponym is a more specific word whose meaning is included in a more general term, known as a hypernym (or superordinate). For example, “rose” is a hyponym of “flower,” because a rose is a type of flower. This hyponymy relationship illustrates a hierarchical structure within language where words are organized from general to specific categories.
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They’ll prove they’re not woke by renaming it to “Whitestone”
stoneThe chuds having a struggle session when they’re renamed to Sandstone
Magas would sell their house to Whitestone and ask them to double the rent they were thinking of charging if they did that.
Chuds will blame absolutely anything for a corporation’s behavior other than the profit motive.
Gotta hit’m with a “tell me more…” and just let your boss offload all those big, beautiful brain worms! If only to satisfy my curiosity.
The Cracker Barrel thing confuses me. Like, even in the weird way they use woke, it doesn’t fit how they use it. They just made the logo more boring.
Yeah but have you considered that everything I don’t like is woke?
I think they made a statement like “everyone belongs here” alongside the logo. It’s not entirely non-sequitur, it’s just stupid
the logo contained the proud image of the inventor of crackers, breakfast sausage innovationist, Lieutenant Governor of the unrecognized Republic of Texarkana, grandather of 12, and race science researcher-luminary Crack R. B. Arrel (1806-1828).
his removal is an attempt by Wokian Marxists to erase his seminal work Against Womens’ Literacy.
Cracker Barrel: “I’m not racist, but…”
Normal people: “Ugh, here it comes.”
These freaks: “What do you MEAN you’re NOT RACIST?!?!?”
Woke is when everyone can spend money at cracker barrel
Get ready to be annoyed. They absolutely made the change because they’re either losing money or not seeing enough return from the company. So when the naked cash grab doesn’t work the chuds will be like “see? Go woke go broke!!”
If only someone had told them that the market for salted grease depends on a given population’s access to affordable healthcare.
yeah i’m colorblind, all i see is green
It makes you wonder why they’re getting mad that suddenly brown and yellow people who sit in rickety chairs seemingly aren’t welcome there.
they took the cracker AND the barrel off the logo! that’s the entire identity of the restaurant!!!”
it doesn’t fit how they use it
it does though, the actual word “woke” doesn’t matter because the sentiment being delivered is just “i don’t like it”
just like “politically correct” and “liberal” and “sjw”
I deadass thought we were talking about the grills I was like hell yeah I WOKE up to eat some delicious grilled eggs and asparagus
They said something a couple years ago - an offhandedly, performative comment - that they take into account DEI or social justice scores or whatever when deciding which companies to invest in. Chuds really took that and ran with it. Anything to deflect from the fact that Blackrock is just pure capitalism.
Blackstone and BlackRock are two different investment management firms
There’s also Lower BlackRock and Upper BlackRock; they’re connected by the same sort of atrium/plaza, but they’re not the same thing. You have to
your way through Upper BlackRock as part of the requirements to get into BlackWing Lair. It’s a whole big thing.Blackrock Quarry is even harder to get to, with the ever-changing hallways of the FBC
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It is very satisfying when you turn in the head quest and see it mounted on top of a pole while people shout congratulations at you.
Wait, what the fuck
Is there a BlackBoulder yet? Anyone want to start an investment firm just for the bit?
Black Mountain is already taken
I feel like BlackMeteor would attract a lot of investment due to its ominous overtones. Today’s investors appreciate a brand image that hints at your ambitions to unleash a primordial Shadow that will consume the sun and still not be sated
[ONE-WINGED ANGEL INTENSIFIES]
Maybe Black Mesa?
Haha! Fat chance
I thought you meant the cast iron griddle people and it made total sense to me that’s something they woukd be mad about.
Blackstone is “woke” as in, you wake up to discover you’ve been evicted from your home.
Lmao. Isnt blackrock the “woke” one? Blackstone CEO is one of the top Trump donors iirc.
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