“Corporate Social Justice Warriors”

Crony capitalism and professional sports

Professional athletic leagues have traditionally steered clear of politics in order to emphasize the purity of their entertainment and to avoid dividing fans over partisan controversies. That has changed in the last year. Players in the National Football League have “taken the knee” during playing of the national anthem as a protest against police practices; the National Basketball Association has embraced Black Lives Matter, also as a protest against the police; and now Major League Baseball has taken this year’s All-Star game out of Atlanta as a protest against Georgia’s new voting law, though baseball executives do not appear to have studied that law. Through these gestures, formerly non-political organizations have allied themselves with explicitly political causes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors"

‘Woke-A-Cola’: Coke facing blowback for resistance to Georgia voting law

One of Georgia’s largest companies is facing a boycott backlash from Republicans after its CEO bashed the state’s new GOP voting reform bill.

Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey recently joined a chorus of other chief executives who, under pressure from Democrats and activist groups on the Left, have begun weighing in on the matter, prompting Republicans to push back.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors"

MLB Moves All-Star Game From 51% Black Georgia To 9.8% Black Denver (Which Already Has Voter ID).

According to the US Census Bureau, Atlanta, Georgia, has a population that is 51.0 percent black. According to the same source, Denver, Colorado has a population that is only 9.8 percent black. These facts seem to indicate that, as usual, leftists activists and organizations such as MLB are only virtue-signaling rather than really trying to show constructive support for black Americans.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors"

The Appeal of the New Totalitarians

The Appeal of the New Totalitarians

It’s easy to understand and reject the horrors of totalitarianism. It is much less easy to grasp its inexorable logic or its seemingly implacable attractions.

I am not a follower or a fan of baseball. But I understand that it is, or has been, an important national pastime, beloved by many, not least, as Andrew McCarthy observes in a recent column, because it offered its acolytes a respite or oasis from politics, an arena where our differences of opinion could be redeemed or at least temporarily forgotten in the benign if intense partisanship of fandom. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors"

MLB Boycotted Georgia a Day After Expanding Deal With Communist China Broadcaster

Major League Baseball had extended and expanded its contract with a Chinese telecommunications giant shortly before boycotting the state of Georgia over the league’s disagreement with the election reforms recently enacted by the Peach State’s democratically elected governor and legislature.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "Corporate Social Justice Warriors"

Trump calls for boycott of MLB, Coke, Delta after they opposed Georgia voting law

Trump calls for boycott of MLB, Coke, Delta after they opposed Georgia voting law

Former President Trump called Friday night for a boycott of Major League Baseball, Coke and Delta Airlines — and all other companies that have pulled out of Georgia or otherwise protested the state’s controversial new voting reform bill.

The Republican called for a boycott in a statement he issued hours after MLB announced it is pulling the All-Star Game from Atlanta in response to the bill, which President Biden has labeled “Jim Crow in the 21st century.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors"

The Georgia House strikes back at Delta

Just as Georgia was a flashpoint after the election because of the run-off election for the Senate, Georgia is again a flashpoint now that the Democrats, led by Creepy Joe, are demonizing the sensible steps the Georgia Legislature enacted to prevent election fraud. What’s amusing about the Democrats’ histrionics is watching as corporations that have earned brownie points for years by being woke, are getting slapped around by the left for not being woke enough. Even funnier is that, when Delta Airlines responded by “woking up,” the Georgia House stepped in to slap it around some more.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors", "Peak Virtue Signalling", "Peak Woke"

The tyranny of diversity training – America is exporting its Calvinistic tendencies to British workplaces

Half a millennium ago a social revolution caused a culture war setting two world views at each other’s throats. The Reformation unleashed by Lutherans was then followed, a generation later, by a more radical, second burst of Protestantism led by the French theologian Jean Calvin.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors", "Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "Diversity"

Xinjiang cotton: How do I know if it’s in my jeans?

Rights groups say Xinjiang’s Uighur minority (also spelled as “Uyghur”) are being persecuted and conscripted for forced labour.

Evidence shown to the BBC suggests that upwards of half a million Uighur minority workers a year are being marshalled into seasonal cotton picking under conditions that appear to raise a high risk of coercion.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "Corporate Social Justice Warriors"

China Pressures Global Apparel Brands to Recant Stance on Xinjiang Forced Labor

China Pressures Global Apparel Brands to Recant Stance on Xinjiang Forced Labor

The Chinese regime is waging war on Western apparel brands amid a global fallout over its genocide against Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region. Undeterred by growing international condemnation over its rights abuses, Beijing is pressing Western companies to reverse their position on Xinjiang.

The regime has dredged up past statements made by companies—some up to two years old—to stop sourcing cotton from Xinjiang over potential forced labor abuse to stoke nationalist fervor and encourage a nationwide boycott.

These “Woke Corporations” like Nike should never have been in China to begin with. No sympathy here.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "Corporate Social Justice Warriors"

The Chinese TV commercial that the NBA doesn’t want its players to see

The National Basketball Association has climbed into bed with the Chinese Communist Party because the nation it rules is a huge market that seems to be in love with basketball.  So eager to please the ruling communists is the NBA that fans with protest signs supporting Hong Kong democracy protestors were kicked out of games.

The NBA does, however, love protests against the United States, especially Black Lives Matter protests, even though those have led to death and destruction in this country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "Corporate Social Justice Warriors", "The China Class"

Amazon’s book bullying is just the latest act of woke intolerance

The house of the Lord, we are told, has many mansions. So does the house of wokeness. If you are Coca-Cola, you address flagging sales by embarking on an ad campaign (and internal training regimen for employees) urging those drinking its sugar water to ‘try to be less white’, i.e.,  ‘less arrogant, less certain, less defensive, less ignorant and more humble’.

If you are Disney, you scour your cartoons for images, situations, or language that worried white bureaucrats imagine might cause offense to anyone on this week’s list of designated victim groups.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors", "Elites vs. Populists"