# 1 OF 3 - BEHOLD THIS FEARFUL, COWARDLY CORPORATE MINDSET!

 # 1 OF 3 - BEHOLD THIS FEARFUL, COWARDLY CORPORATE MINDSET!

JUSTICE IS TRUTH IN ACTION - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - FRI. AUG. 7, 2020 

 

"WHEN YOUR FAVORITE COMPANIES GO WOKE"

BY DAVE SEMINARA, WALL STREET JOURNAL, THURS. AUG. 6, 2020

 

    "Not long ago, the term "corporate America" and "corporate culture" were synonymous with staid country-club Republican values. Corporate America has been inching left for years, but in recent weeks this trend has exploded. It was once cool and countercultural to be liberal.Today the left is the establishment and conservatives are a part of a new counterculture that quietly seethes as the companies we patronize inundate us with woke virtue signaling.

 

    Start with my morning coffee. I love La Colombe but was dismayed when the company joined the Facebook advertiser boycott, which now has nearly 1,000 companies. La Colombe said in an Instagram post that it was "calling for an end to hate for profit on social media." I went to their website and saw a banner on the home page advertising a limited edition of coffee and mug with proceeds "supporting the ACLU!"

 

    I switched to tea for a couple of days, then got curious and looked at the website of Numi, my favorite tea company. I learned that Numi "stands in solidarity" with Black Lives Matter and the Anti-Police Terror Project, among others, Now I'm drinking water with breakfast.

 

    It should be ironic that La Colombe is on one hand boycotting Facebook for failure to censure enough content, and on the other supporting an organization that supposed to protect civil liberties. In 2018 the ACLU advised Facebook against censoring offensive speech, but it's been silent on the issue during the current boycott. Its most recent free speech press releases condemn the EARN IT ACT, which seeks to curb child-abuse images on social media. The ACLU is concerned the bi-partisan bill would be "a disaster" for "LGBTQ and sex workers communities."

 

    Facebook says it censored 9.6 million "hate speech" posts in the first quarter of 2020, up from 5.7 million posts ikn 2019's last quarter. Apparently that isn't enough for a host of boycotting companies

that my family regularly patronizes, including REI, CVS, Lego, Microsoft, Target and Chipotle. What concerns me about the boycott is that the left is adept at expanding boundaries of unacceptable content to include anything from calls to "build the wall" to skepticism about climate change.

 

    The growing list of woke companies embracing Black Lives Matter and its champions like Colin Kaepernick is even more troubling. Mr. Kaepernick sent a July 4 tweet calling Independence Day a "celebration of white supremacy." Two days later Disney announced it has hired him to produce a series on race. My sons weren't amused when I suggested we cancel our Disney+ subscription. They're already annoyed with me demanding that they avoid Nike, another of Mr. Kaepernick's patrons..."

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    We need men like men like Daniel Webster. The reason Daniel Webster was so effective a champion was because of his total personal commitment. Speaking on behalf of preserving the Union regardless of personal consequences, he said: 

    

    "What are personal consequences? What is the individual man, with all the good or evil that may betide him, in comparison with the good or evil which may befall a great country in a crisis like this, and in the midst of great transactions which concern that country's fate? Let the consequences be what they will. No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country." Lewis, Daniel, 418

 

George H. Kubeck      

P.S. The brainwashed secular elites have become pseudo-American, useful idiots and fellow travelers of Marxism which has no basis in American history. This will not stand!