Why anyone gave CoCs and their adherents the time of day over the past decade will always be a mystery to me. We should have pointed, laughed, and banned them. Instead, large projects and corporations dove headfirst into CoCs and grievance politics, openly inviting woke/DEI/leftist entryists in. Looking back I think it was a COVID and ZIRP fever dream. The reversal upon Trump's second presidency goes to show how performative it was.