Popular Mechanics Is Now #Woke #Resitance Media, Too: Details How to Safely (Illegally) Tear Down a Statue You Don’t Like
17th June 2020
This country is now dead and we must make a new one.
Meanwhile, Thotiana Lowe, a left-leaning writer at the supposedly formerly right-leaning Washington Examiner (owned by the same liberal corporatist who used to fund the Weekly Standard), writes that Columbus was racist and evil so, you know, might as well pull down his statues, too.
The problem faced by Popular Mechanics (and Popular Science and Scientific American and even the venerable National Geographic) is that their business model crashed and burned once the Internet got good. Nobody wants to pay for publications when information just as good is available for free. So they depend on advertising, which means they depend on ‘clicks’, which means they write everything in the standard click-bait formula that you see everywhere today. Which means they get ‘woke’ because the only people who are willing to work for such an organization are progressivism-steeped arrested adolescents who see nothing wrong with importing their totalitarian political agenda into every nook and cranny of life.
UPDATE: Woke Science: Popular Mechanics Instructs ‘How to Remove a Racist Statue’