Unearned Power Over The Boss And The Accomplished
Frank Furedi writes about the woke young twats -- "millennial creatives" -- who are "using identity politics to rise up the corporate ladder":

As corporations go, Netflix is as woke as they come. In 2018, for example, it fired one of its executives for using the n-word, even though he used it purely descriptively to talk about offensive words.

The trouble with being a woke corporation is that once you go down that road, you can never be woke enough in the eyes of the truly woke. Netflix has discovered this recently after it came under fire from some of its own employees and creatives for daring to host Dave Chappelle's latest show, The Closer. They accuse Chappelle of transphobia, and want his show cancelled. Last week, Netflix employees even joined trans activists in a protest outside Netflix's Los Angeles offices.

Netflix is not alone in having its own staff attempt to censor its content. Many other media corporations have also found their woke credentials challenged by their millennial employees. Spotify faced a mini rebellion last year over some of the episodes produced by its biggest podcast star, Joe Rogan. Spotify employees complained that they found some of Rogan's guests and content offensive, and demanded editorial oversight over his show. They threatened to stage a walkout unless they received it.

Young woke employees doubling-up as freelance censors are also busy in publishing. Penguin Random House Canada faced the wrath of fragile millennial staff members when they discovered Penguin was publishing controversial psychologist Jordan Peterson's new book. And trans booksellers were outraged when independent bookstores received copies of Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters from the American Booksellers Association. The ABA swiftly apologised for including Irreversible in its July 2021 mailout to its 750 member bookstores.

Publishing is fast becoming a career choice for ambitious would-be censors. They are particularly active when it comes to trans-related issues. One group of individuals from across publishing wrote a letter to the Bookseller, attacking 'transphobia... in the British book industry', and demanded that it stop publishing books that supposedly promote it.

...This new generation of media employees is seemingly unwilling to tolerate anything that it deems offensive. David Shelley, the CEO of Hachette Book Group, and Clare Alexander, a literary agent, told the House of Lords communications and digital committee that publishers now have to warn new recruits that they may have to work on books by people they don't agree with.

Welcome to the Un-Enlightenment.

Young employees who have fully internalised woke ideology can use their cultural influence to force their older bosses on to the defensive. They know that when they call out their company for not being sufficiently diverse or their bosses for their privilege, they will not meet with any resistance. After all, no company wanting to be woke will ever assert that it is sufficiently diverse. And no boss, determined to assert his own woke credentials, will openly defend his privilege.

Large corporations like Netflix or Penguin Random House cannot allow their employees to gain control over the production of their content. But their embrace of woke ideology has made them vulnerable. These Woke Young Turks know that. And they know that their social mobility is intimately linked to gaining power by out-woking their elders. Should they gain power, broadcasters and publishers will be even less likely to tolerate competing views and dissent. And that will be bad news for everyone.