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The global titans of corporate wokeness have sided with the mob. But virtue-signaling isn’t going to stop their stores being looted, and isn’t going to improve the lives of their sweatshop laborers.
In the intersectional hellscape that is the modern age, corporations can no longer just sell their goods to the masses. Instead, they must sell an image of woke piety. Gillette can’t just sell razors, they must also chide their male customers into confronting “toxic masculinity.” Ben and Jerry no longer sell ice cream, they sell anti-Trump #Resistance.
Nike is a pioneer in this area, ever since it embraced kneeling NFL quarterback Colin Kaerpernick’s brand of ethno-narcissism and grievance politics. As such, the brand with the swoosh didn’t miss a beat when protesters took to the streets this week after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. ...
Nike could come out with custom-designed rioting sneakers, daubed with Black Lives Matter slogans and stitched with the Antifa flag, and it wouldn’t make a lick of difference. That’s because corporate wokeness is a form of performance art, designed to appeal to guilt-ridden white liberals. At the end of the day, Woke Capitalism is still Capitalism, and they’re who buy its products. ...
While Nike has appointed itself arbiter of social justice in America, it’s still a corporate tyrant abroad. The company and its ilk couldn’t give a crap about the third-worlders who stitch its sneakers.
Just ask the 500 Cambodian workers who were hospitalized in 2017 at factories supplying Nike, Puma, Asics, and VF Corporation. In one three-day period at these plants, some 360 workers collapsed on the job. None of these factories pay the Cambodian ‘living wage’ of $370 per month – or nearly enough to buy a pair of Nike Adapt BB 2.0 basketball shoes.
On its face, this campaign seemed like a huge gamble on Nike’s part—and it further looked to be a gamble that paid off when share prices soared. But, as a searching New York Times investigative report makes clear, the corporation in fact went through a series of behind-the-scenes discussions and even considered dropping Kaepernick altogether, nervous—terrified, more likely—that it would face mass boycotts from consumers. When it became clear that the NFL supporters—largely white, male, and older—were outnumbered by the corporation’s brand loyalists—more diverse and younger—Nike went ahead and now even claims that it inaugurated the campaign because it believes that Kaepernick “is one of the most inspirational athletes of his generation.”
Modified Seinfeld Episode Explains:
Getting rid of nations, stable gender, the family, Western culture and (why not?) Christianity
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bend-the-arc-jewish-israel_n_1681546
@NoCoup do you have the Twatter link or YouTube url for the Seinfeld w/ subtitles above?
If Nietzsche is correct about Christianity also being the product of slave morality, that means that the Woke church must destroy its rival. You can’t have two religions occupying the same cognitive space. This is why the woke hate Christianity so much, and always attack it, despite Christianity being no threat to the woke church of no salvation – not that Christians are necessarily friendly towards wokeness, simply that the churches have been rendered politically toothless. If one wanted to be unkind, one could say that it is the narcissism of small differences, but this would be deeply unfair because the differences in their fruits are simply vast. Christianity may be a slave morality but it is slave morality redeemed, the simple proof of which is that its fruits must surely be judged to be largely good ones, to a greater degree than can be said about any other religion. Wokeness, being a nihilistic faith, does not even believe in redemption, for itself or anything else, and therefore has nothing whatsoever to redeem it.
Getting rid of nations, stable gender, the family, Western culture and (why not?) Christianity – the hallmarks of leftist “progress” and avant garde politicking – also advances global corporatist objectives, removing any remaining obstacles to global corporate dominance.
How insane is it that the Russian propaganda outlet whose sole responsibility is to sow divisions in America merely has to point out true shit we are all thinking anyways?
I've been saying this for a while now. Nice to see it somewhere else, even if it is Russia Today.
The topic deserves deep exploration, because I think it's central to everything that has been going on lately. It's all still labor vs capital, but now, strangely, we have a Republican president representing labor, and liberals representing global capital.