Woke, Inc: Why I’m blowing whistle on how corporate America is poisoning society

stgislander

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Indeed. When it went after girlhood, Ulta, which probably thought it would be praised and celebrated for its delightful woke sensitivity, got the sharp end of womanhood instead, right in the crotch. It feels like Ulta crossed a line somehow, and a lot of regular women finally had enough and are spicily speaking their minds.

Speak up, ladies! Tell us how you REALLY feel.
And remember to NOT vote Democrat in November.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
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Ulta Beauty Turns Off Comments, Stands By Offensive Transgender Video That Triggered Boycott Calls










Dozens of now-hidden replies from upset females called out the beauty company for effectively mocking women.

“So you’d have a white man in blackface advertise your products then?” one person questioned. “Is that respecting everyone? Because it sure looks like a slap in the face to your primarily female customer base to have this insulting caricature of womanhood represent you. I won’t shop with you again.”

“Dylan seems desperate to monetize s***,” another hidden reply said. “Not sure why Ulta would go on board. He is doing a mockery of women. Won’t be spending another dime with you.”

“We are trying to point out that Mulvaney’s entire social media presence is a mockery of womanhood and firmly grounded in harmful sex stereotypes,” someone else posted. “And also that it’s VERY creepy for an adult male to keep calling himself a ‘girl.’”

“[Two] adult men talking about their experiences with ‘girlhood,’” someone wrote in a reply that is now hidden by Ulta. “Please explain the difference between womanface and blackface, because I can’t see one.”
 

GURPS

INGSOC
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How Disney and CEO Bob Chapek are preparing for a possible Republican House majority



The conversations this year are taking place as Republicans on Capitol Hill attack Disney and other companies as “woke” after they took stances on a range of political or cultural issues. The GOP has used the criticism of businesses in part to try to mobilize conservative voters ahead of the elections.

Some Disney executives and their advisors are concerned Republicans could ramp up their attacks on the company if the party wins control of the House, according to people familiar with the matter. They worry the GOP could pressure the company not to speak out on social issues, such as the Supreme Court ruling in June that overturned the right to an abortion enshrined in Roe v. Wade. After the decision, Disney said it would help pay for employees’ pregnancy-related care if they travel to a different state.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
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Big banks setting actual loan rates to big businesses based on 'diversity' quotas instead of ability to repay



As if America already didn't have enough of what fascism-savvy Argentines call "the corporate republic," we now learn that big banks are conditioning their credit to big businesses based on "diversity" quotas, not creditworthiness.

According to the Washington Free Beacon:

Amid an uptick in race-conscious hiring programs throughout corporate America, many prominent businesses are now writing racial and gender quotas into their credit agreements with banks, tying the cost of borrowing to the companies' workforce diversity, a Washington Free Beacon analysis found.
The businesses that have struck such agreements include the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, the consulting groups Ernst & Young and AECOM, insurers Prudential and Definity Financial, private equity firms BlackRock and the Carlyle Group, the technology company Trimble, and the telecommunications giant Telefónica.
Over the past two years, each of those companies has secured a lending agreement, known as a credit facility, that links the interest rate charged by banks to the company's internal diversity targets, creating a financial incentive to meet them. If the business achieves its targets, it won't have to pay as much interest on the loans it takes out; if it falls short, it is required to pay more.

That's got to be an illegal practice, given that lending money on the basis of skin color, rather than a borrower's capacity to repay, is nothing but naked racial discrimination.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
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Mount Holyoke grad deprogrammed from women-only woke culture



Annabella Rockwell led a life of privilege even before she entered posh Mount Holyoke College in rural South Hadley, Mass. in 2011. The heiress to a pharmaceutical fortune, she grew up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, summered in Newport, RI, and later moved with her family to Palm Beach, Fla.

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But she told The Post she wound up “totally indoctrinated” into viewing the world as a toxic patriarchy and herself as an oppressed victim — and eventually had to be deprogrammed.

Rockwell, now 29, said she was initially shocked by how aggressively anti-male the students and professors were when she settled in at the women-only school, founded in 1837. She was also taken aback by a serious drinking culture and freshman campus rituals that, she said, were designed to shrug off gender roles — such as cutting your hair into what is called the “MoHo chop.” (Rockwell did not do this.)

But it wasn’t until her junior year, when she took a Gender Studies class, that she said she was turned upside down.

“This professor tells me about the patriarchy,” Rockwell told The Post. ” I barely knew what the word meant. I didn’t know what she was talking about. I wasn’t someone that into feminism. I just knew that I felt I had always been free to do what I wanted. I never experienced sexism. But I was told there’s the patriarchy and you don’t even understand it’s been working against you your whole life. You’ve been oppressed and you didn’t even know it. Now you have to fight it. And I just went down this deep rabbit hole.”
 

GURPS

INGSOC
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Wellcome medical museum attacks itself for being racist
















The news broke this morning that the Wellcome Trust Collections is shutting down one of its most important exhibits–Medicine Man–because it celebrates Western medicine and is ableist. Medicine is ableist. Yep, it is. Gotta admit that, I guess.



In 2019 the Wellcome Trust appointed Melanie Keen as head of its collections, which includes over a million medicine-related items as well as an enormous library. Since that time Melanie has been on a journey of cultural vandalism, at first trying to “contextualize” the museum through non-Western interpretations and criticisms of the exhibits.

Now she has just decided to close the whole medical exhibit, which is the heart of Wellcome Collections.

A museum in London run by the Wellcome foundation health charity is to close one of its key galleries because it perpetuates “a version of medical history that is based on racist, sexist and ableist theories and language”.
The Wellcome Collection’s announcement on Saturday, affects a free permanent display called Medicine Man, which includes objects relating to sex, birth and death and includes anatomical models in wood, ivory and wax dating back to the 17th century. These were collected by Sir Henry Wellcome who amassed more than a million items on the history of health and medicine.
“The very fact that these items have ended up in one place, the story we told was that of a man with enormous wealth, power and privilege,” the museum said on Twitter.

Get it? The very possibility that a museum could be established is problematic. Wellcome’s wealth alone is bad enough, but using it to collect items significant enough to be displayed is doubly awful. Better that they have been disposed of, as most would have been, or dispersed into various hands unavailable for public viewing.

It is problematic that anybody could have established a collection important enough to share with the world.

What gave us the right to tell their stories? Good question. Who, exactly, has the right to tell anyone’s stories? And if not Wellcome, then whom?

Clearly, people long dead, living often in cultures without the written word, aren’t going to. Better to have them completely disappear into the fog of history than a wealthy white man, born of missionaries who actually tended to the sick in the American hinterlands (Wellcome was born of missionaries in the wilds of Wisconsin in the 19th century), have the temerity to tell their story.

Best have all these objects and stories disappear, lest they fall into the hands of a cisgendered heteronormative White males. The pale penis people must be crushed!

Honestly, that is clearly her assertion. The indigenous people for whom she has chosen to speak may have had great cultures, but they were illiterate and hence without a voice in history. She, more than Wellcome, is shutting them out of history by her actions.









 

GURPS

INGSOC
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Fury as woke Whole Foods pulls Maine lobster from its shelves because the industry threatens right whales with fishing gear - sparking fears hundreds of historic jobs could be lost

  • Whole Foods will stop selling lobsters from the Gulf of Maine in an effort to protect endangered whales
  • The decision comes after a Maine judge ruled that lobster fishing agencies will have to abide by a new set of rules to protect the whales by 2024
  • Whale advocates have shared their concerns about the risks behind fishing gear and said that entanglement is a massive threat to the mammals
  • Some officials in Maine were disappointed in the decision and said that there has 'never' been a whale death as a result of lobster gear in the state



Whole Foods recently said that it will stop selling lobster from the Gulf of Maine at hundreds of its stores around the country.

The 'woke' company cited decisions by a pair of sustainability organizations to take away their endorsements of the U.S. lobster fishing industry.

The organizations, Marine Stewardship Council and Seafood Watch, both cited concerns about risks to rare North Atlantic right whales from fishing gear. Entanglement in gear is one of the biggest threats to the whales.

The decision by Whole Foods was an 'important action to protect the highly endangered' whale, said Virginia Carter, an associate with the Save America's Wildlife Campaign at Environment America Research and Policy Center.

'With fewer than 340 North Atlantic right whales in existence, the species is swimming toward extinction unless things turn around,' Carter said.

Job losses among fishermen in Maine may now increase - especially after a judge ruled that new lobster fishing restrictions will be set by 2024.
 

DaSDGuy

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Welcome to Portland, OR. Brought to you by the same people who gave us Brandon:

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GURPS

INGSOC
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Victoria’s Secret Brand CEO Resigns in Less than a Year After Series of Woke Blunders




Hauk rose to brand CEO as the company made several woke reforms, from its shelving of the “Angels” fashion shows to its selection of transgender model Valentina Sampaio as a brand ambassador. As Breitbart News reported in 2021:

Victoria’s Secret is remodeling its stores across the globe and throwing out its iconic “Angels” imagery, hot pink color scheme, and sexy decor as part of its larger rebranding effort — one that’s been criticized as woke and “performative” by former models and included naming women’s soccer player Megan Rapinoe and transgender model Valentina Sampaio brand ambassadors.
After canceling its annual fashion show in November 2019, Victoria’s Secret is now erasing the brand’s longtime Angels aesthetic that helped turn supermodels like Heidi Klum, Tyra Banks, Ariana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Karlie Kloss, and Candice Swanepoel into household names.
 

stgislander

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"Cashing in on body issues... selling skin and bones with big boobs... she was made up by a dude."
 

GURPS

INGSOC
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Woke Corporation Tells Applicants Not to Reveal Their Alma Maters — That Wouldn't Be Equitable




The company “helps create more equitable, resilient, and dynamic communities.”

HR&A recently accepted applications for a directorship paying between $121,668 and $138,432 annually. But those in charge didn’t want to be unfairly impressed.

Therefore, per the position’s LinkedIn ad:

We ask that you submit a version of your resume that has your school information removed. There is no need to reformat your resume, and you should leave your degree (e.g. “B.A. Economics”). But please remove all undergraduate and graduate school name references.

It’s not a one-off victory for equity. From the New York Post:

A quick spin through a few other HR&A job postings confirmed that this policy extends company-wide as part of their “ongoing work to build a hiring system that is free from bias and based on candidate merit and performance.”

Does the specific school someone was accepted by and successfully navigated indicate anything meritorious? It appears not.
 

spr1975wshs

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^So, me who barely squeaked by on completing a BS in Management after 38 years would be on equal footing with someone who graduated Summa Cum Laude? I do not think that is being mindful of fiduciary responsibility to the stock holders.
 

DaSDGuy

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Maybe they are trying to hide themselves. Some people are somewhat opposed to seeing a resume from a full-on woke college that practices censorship and racial bias of any kind as a mindset for all of the students. My company needs people who think freely, not what they are producing at those institutions. Seeing the name of the woke institution on a resume streamlines the decision making process.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
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Wokester inferno: Investors flee leftist ESG investment funds

By Monica Showalter

As if you needed anything to seal the deal about the fraudiness of green and socially conscious investments, Barron's has a report (free version here) about investors now fleeing wokester Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) investment funds, which bill themselves as "sustainable investments."

Investors yanked the most money out of U.S. sustainable funds in more than five years last quarter, withdrawing a net nearly $6.2 billion to round out a tough year for environmental, social, and governance strategies.
The net flow of money into U.S. sustainable mutual and exchange-traded funds has diminished steadily since it hit a record high in the first quarter of 2021, according to a new report from
Morningstar.

The decline comes as inflation, rising interest rates, and lingering fears of recession have weighed on markets and investor sentiment.
But that doesn’t explain the whole shift. The increasing politicization of ESG investing also hurt investment strategies that prioritize social and environmental issues, said Alyssa Stankiewicz, associate director of sustainability research at Morningstar and a co-author of the report.

The report claims that these groups don't make energy investments (nor apparently, utility investments based on charts such at the one at the last bar graph near bottom of the page here), meaning, they'd lost out on an opportunity to make a profit in energy sector companies which are doing well this year.
 
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