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It seems that the woke are finally being put to sleep. We recently reported that on Twitter, The Angry Astronaut asked Elon Musk the following: “Just curious…what is your motivation to become politically active? Why make yourself a target? You are trying to get mankind to Mars and alert the public to the danger of AI. Why sabotage these worthwhile goals by wading into political controversy? Is it worth it?” Elon Musk’s response was this: “Unless it is stopped, the woke mind virus will destroy civilization and humanity will never reached Mars.” According to a Reuters report, Musk sent his executives a message on Thursday. Stating that hiring worldwide needs to be put on pause. “Tesla shares fell 9% in U.S. trade on Friday.” Musk also said that Tesla would reduce its headcount by 10%.
It is now being reported that Jesse Powell, the CEO and founder of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, told the Fox Business Network on Friday that any “woke” employees who stay with his company “will be managed out the hard way” because he doesn’t “tolerate that kind of behavior.”
Powell recently sparked an internal culture war at Kraken when he published a 31-page manifesto detailing the company’s “libertarian philosophical values” and devotion to “diversity of thought.” He has also challenged and questioned employees’ use of preferred pronouns, debated over “who can refer to another person as the N-word,” and said questions about female intelligence compared to men’s were “not as settled as one might have initially thought.”
Despite the crypto market going through a severe downturn, with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies having lost significant value, Powell has insisted that Kraken will continue to hire. “Krakenites,” he claims, can request or deny “personal language and communication preferences of each other,” give each other “the benefit of the doubt,” and will never “call someone’s words toxic, hateful, racist, x-phobic, unhelpful, etc.”
At the same time, though, he has actively sought to push out employees who he says are a “bad fit” with the company’s ethos. In a recent Twitter thread, Powell highlighted “20 people” who “sap the productivity out of another 400” because they’re “triggered” by “first world problems” such as pronoun use and “whether differences in human sex exist at all.”
During a Friday appearance on Varney and Co., Powell touted his decision to offer any “woke” employees who disagreed with the company’s values four months of pay—as long as they agreed to never work for him again.
Agreeing with anchor Stuart Varney’s assessment that Kraken is “under attack from the inside,” Powell said that many of his employees were “losing a lot of time arguing with these people and getting into therapy sessions with them.” He added that it caused “such a drain” that the company decided “these people might be better off somewhere else,” thus offering them a severance plan to “sail off into the sunset.”
