Microsoft: How to Woke

Have you seen the new insidious ‘intersectional’ introductions being embraced by Microsoft presenters? In November 2021 at Microsoft’s ‘Ignite’ conference, virtue signaling speakers began their presentations with a description of their race, gender, pronouns and physical appearance.

At first glance it appears to be an accessibility measure to assist the visually impaired but it turns out that is not why intersectionality is being encouraged at Microsoft. It is all about depersonalization and obscuring your identity as an individual human being in the collectivist hive. Nic Fillingham from Microsoft (who appears in the video) claims that stating your race and visual appearance before speaking will ‘help fight racism, sexism and classism’. But it will not promote critical literacy, prudential judgment, disinterested rationality, or the Biblically-ordained sanctity of the person as created in the image of God.

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