DIE - Diversity, Inclusion, Equity

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In much better news, conservative filmmaker and anti-DEI crusader Robby Starbuck also made the Wall Street Journal. Headline from yesterday: “Ford, Coors Light and Other Brands Retreat From a Gay-Rights Index.” Boomerang! The sub-headline explained, “The Human Rights Campaign used a ranking of companies to advance same-sex benefits; now an activist is using the index to pressure CEOs.”



Harley-Davidson, Tractor Supply, Jack Daniel’s distiller Brown-Forman, Ford, and now Molson Coor’s have all “scaled back” their “diversity initiatives” — after Robby Starbuck called them out. Starbuck pointed out that the corporations’ support for LGBTQ groups means conservative customers are being forced to support and subsidize stuff they hate, like sexually transitioning employees’ transgender children.

According to the story, “Ford, Molson Coors and other companies plan to stop providing data for the Corporate Equality Index produced by HRC’s foundation.” In other words, they are entirely opting out of the gay scoring system. They don’t want their companies’ names appearing on LGBTQ allies lists.

For his part, Starbuck has been taking a well-deserved social media victory lap and marveling over how easy his job is getting:



CLIP: Robby Starbuck discusses his successful anti-DEI crusade (2:51).

Robby Starbuck is one guy. He’s not even a particularly large influencer, with about 600,000 followers, an appreciable but non-competitive figure. Most of his followers joined in the wake of his campaign to out conservative companies embracing DEI.

One struggles to find comparable influencers like Starbuck on the left. Dylan Mulvaney? Rebekah Jones? Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems to me like the right owns this influential anti-narrative space. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that the Democrat party is wholly owned by the fascistic coalition of deep state groups Weinstein described. Purely as a disguise, the Democrat party apparatus —whoever that is— loudly advocates for grievance groups that do not threaten its entrenched interests.

But that is a topic for another post, and I am already behind schedule this morning. Let me know what you think about these heady issues in the comments.

☕️ THE ORTHODOX EXPRESS ☙ Thursday, September 5, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Insights about the character of the deep state and of our corporate media enemy. Plus more good news from the culture wars.

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Space Marine 2 CEO Exposes The DEI Agenda…​

 

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The great DEI drainout continues. Last week, North Carolina’s Daily Tar Heel ran a story headlined, “UNC System announces multi-million dollar cuts for DEI positions and programs.”



It was a DEI St. Valentine’s Day massacre. Last week, the state’s Board of Governors made sweeping cuts across the entire North Carolina public university system, slashing up to sixty positions and reallocating tens of millions of dollars in budgets for diversity and inclusion programs.

The Board equitably reassigned even more positions and, very diversely, dissolved entire DEI departments.

The move followed a new policy the Board approved back in May. UNC’s system approved a policy banning all DEI offices and titles, and required its universities to report on staff and funding reductions for these programs by September 1st.

Progress! As red state educational systems recapture money wasted on DEI departments, they will gain competitive advantages over blue state schools, since they can better fund other programs that add value, like STEM degrees. Blue state schools will, eventually, be forced to come around.

It’s slow, but it’s happening. Nobody’s setting up new DEI departments, and red states are, one by one, defenestrating them. As Charles MacKay famously wrote, “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”

In a world that seems constantly crazy, we need to focus on what’s happening at ground level in boardrooms and conferences. The world is not going as crazy as the headlines suggest. Hang in there!

☕️ HUMAN HEDGEHOG ☙ Tuesday, September 17, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Roundup of reliable Trump Assassination Attempt Redux news; real-life conspiracy theories; former NIH director offers weak apology; US birth rates topple; Sweden bribes migrants; good DEI news; more.

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Wall Street’s Appetite for ESG Plummets​

BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard’s support for environmental shareholders proposals dropped significantly. State Street said it supported only six percent of environmental shareholder proposals in the first half of the year and only seven percent of social ones, which is a drop compared to 2023.

Vanguard said in August it did not back those resolutions, and BlackRock said it voted for four percent of the ESG proposals in the year prior to June, making a seven percent decline from a year before.

Bloomberg reported:

Together, the three money managers have immense influence during proxy season because they collectively own about 20% of the shares of all companies in the S&P 500, mainly through their enormous index-tracking funds. The drop in support is a stark turnaround from 2021, when they voted in favor of a record number of proposals that focused on topics such as climate change, workforce diversity and human rights.
The so-called Big Three are taking a more circumspect view of such shareholder proposals, said Lindsey Stewart, director of stewardship research and policy at Morningstar Sustainalytics.

“It’s clear that the political climate, and the rise of anti-ESG resolutions and legislation, has played at least some role in the decline in proxy voting support. But the fact is, even some of the pro-ESG resolutions were badly worded or lacked a clear benefit to shareholders, so it’s not surprising that firms rejected many of these resolutions,” Stewart explained.

Consumer watchdog groups, Republicans, and conservative organizations have been pushing back against the promotion of ESG policies, believing that these shareholder proposals push corporations to back leftist policies such as green energy, racial quotas, and others.

 

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Sweet Baby Inc Sends INSANE THREAT | DEI Company TARGETS Creator And Says They Will GO AFTER THEM​

so when woke progressives do not get their way, they threaten people, doxx them so TranstFA thugs know where to find them, either with shooters like the guy going after Kavanaugh or SWATTING like Tim Pool and many others