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Boycotts Reveal ‘Racketeering Scam’ Behind Corporations That Go Woke: James Lindsay.


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2023 Jun 4, 8:52am   564 views  5 comments

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The boycott against corporations that tried to push left-wing sex and gender ideology on their customers opens the opportunities to expose what’s behind their embrace of “woke” agenda, according to author and commentator James Lindsay.

Speaking on EpochTV’s “Crossroads,” Lindsay said the boycotts “must definitely have an impact,” as Bud Light’s parent company Anheuser-Busch scrambled to downplay its now-notorious partnership with transgender TikTok personality Dylan Mulvaney.

“This boycott damaged them enough to where they scrambled, they made some kind of a crazy statement. The statement just didn’t satisfy anybody. So the boycott stays on, the pressure stays on,” he told host Joshua Philipp.

Woke Corp’s Priorities

On May 9, a month after the initial Mulvaney backlash, Anheuser-Busch lost its perfect Corporate Equality Index (CEI) score, which is overseen by the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy group.

The CEI measures how well a company’s policies adhere to a set of criteria concerning “LGBTQ equality” in the workplace. Businesses with the highest possible 100 CEI points are given the title “Best Place To Work For LGBTQ Equality.” More than 800 American businesses met all the criteria to earn a percent rating and the designation last year, according to the Campaign’s latest report.

In response to the loss of a perfect CEI score—and in spite of the customer backlash, Anheuser-Busch pledged last week to donate $200,000 to support “LGBTQ+ business owners of color.”

The fact that a company would rather further upset customers than get a lower social credit rating, Lindsay said, shows “how this extortion racket works and how serious the extortion racket is.”

“We see which thing they’re choosing to do,” Lindsay explained. “Whether it’s Corporate Equality Index score, whether it’s a broader ESG [Environmental, Social, and Governance] score, they’re choosing to serve the same agenda.”

“This reveals a lot of things that are very useful,” he continued. “We can have hearings. We could have the House Oversight Committee talking about this: ‘Why are you doing this? How important is that number? Why is it number so important? How did this number come to mean so much to your company? Who made the deals? What are the costs?'”

“These kinds of things need to be dragged out into the public under oath, and in a high place.”

Fighting Woke Corps in Court

“We now have very good reason to believe that shareholders have excellent lawsuits in potentia for the violations of fiduciary responsibility,” Lindsay told Philipp.

In fact, conservative legal group America First Legal is preparing to sue Anheuser-Busch, as well as several other big-name brands, for allegedly tanking their shareholder value through their Pride Month promotions that triggered outrage and boycotts.

On Tuesday, America First Legal called on anyone whose shares in LGBT product-promoting companies lost value to reach out to them to join a class action lawsuit they are working to file against those companies.

“ATTENTION: Are you a shareholder of [Target], [Kohls], [Anheuser-Busch], or other companies that are promoting transgender, LGBTQ and PRIDE products and diminishing shareholder value?” the organization wrote on Twitter with a link to its email address. “We want to hear from you.”

Target has been the subject of a conservative-led boycott over merchandise celebrating Pride Month, including a onesie for infants that states “Bien Proud;” a children’s book with the title, “Twas the Night Before Pride;” a book that tells children how to use transgender pronouns; and a handful of T-shirts with similar slogans. The company also drew backlash for “tuck-friendly” swimwear. A Target spokesperson has since said the swimwear wasn’t made for children.

Similarly, Kohls drew boycott calls from customers after it was found promoting Pride Month-themed merchandise, particularly clothing items for toddlers.

While Lindsay said he expects more lawsuits like this to come, they won’t be so effective until large investors get involved.

“This thing actually operates like a racketeering scam,” Lindsay explained. “The largest investors—huge institutional investors—are all pledged to participate in the program, so there’s this very incestuous thing that’s keeping the whole thing locked up.”

“Some small investors who have a few 100 shares are probably not going to be able to make a lawsuit that does something tremendous. Even a class action may not be able to do that across the shareholders,” he continued. “But if we can get some of these institutional investors to feel like that their better option is, in fact, to get out of this thing before it crashes down on them by increasing this pressure and creating these pathways to legal action … then you start busting up a racketeering cartel.”

‘Keep the Pressure On’

For Americans who choose to shop elsewhere, Lindsay said they should keep up with their “extremely important endeavor,” although sooner or later they may get demoralized due to the sheer number of companies jumping on the woke bandwagon.

“I’m glad that they are realizing that they do have this muscle to flex, that they have this weapon that they’ve been able to wield, but we have to make sure that it gets wielded intelligently,” he replied when asked what would he tell boycotters.

“Sooner or later, you might end up getting demoralized or you might not know what to do,” Lindsay added. “I would say that these focused boycotts, whichever one you pick first, that’s the horse you ride. It doesn’t have to make sense, but you have to keep the pressure on somewhere, so that we can take this and scoop it up and do something useful.”

Without this pressure, Lindsay warned, what awaits Americans could be a personal ESG rating system, like communist China’s social credit score, that restricts their and their children’s liberty and life.

“What you’ll find is that, if you want to go to the store, maybe you’re not allowed to enter the store without having a good enough ESG score,” he said. “Maybe you can’t go into the meat department. Maybe you can’t go into the beer department. Maybe you’re limited in how much you can buy. Maybe you can’t buy a plane ticket. Maybe you can’t order an Uber. Maybe you can’t buy more than 10 gallons of gas in a month. ”

“They already do this kind of stuff in China. And we can expect the same thing to come down this way—surprisingly enough, even here in America—if we don’t fight back against this.”

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1   Patrick   2023 Jun 4, 9:08am  

Al_Sharpton_for_President says


On Tuesday, America First Legal called on anyone whose shares in LGBT product-promoting companies lost value to reach out to them to join a class action lawsuit they are working to file against those companies.

“ATTENTION: Are you a shareholder of [Target], [Kohls], [Anheuser-Busch], or other companies that are promoting transgender, LGBTQ and PRIDE products and diminishing shareholder value?” the organization wrote on Twitter with a link to its email address. “We want to hear from you.”


I would like to contact them but don't see how. I have had shares in Target for a long time.

https://aflegal.org/?s=target&id=483
2   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2023 Jun 4, 1:31pm  

Perhaps there is a need for a Traditional Family Values Index to counter balance this society destroying commie shit.
3   Ceffer   2023 Jun 4, 4:18pm  

Fuck CEI, fuck Soros, fuck BIS, fuck the Swiss Octagon, fuck Tavistock (and its Rand and SRI children), Fuck the RIIA, and fuck the IMF.

Rods of God to Geneva poste haste.
5   BeneTiberCato   2023 Dec 6, 5:45am  

Patrick says

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1732070712892878987




So there is systemic racism, just the opposite of what they say it is. The system systematically gives reward points to all those who have any Rainbow Plus Factor, and denies opportunities to the majority. It's an ingenious way to destroy a civilization. Some underlying theme, some nasty slimy undercurrent flowing through everything, I don't know it's name but I always recognize the smell. It's like when I worked in government, and the system penalized those who actually wanted to do the work the agency purportedly existed to perform. From what I read and hear, that spirit exists in corporate America too. I never thought of myself as a White Person until the last ten years. I think back on my 1990s self embracing Multi-Culturalism like America was just going to be an expanded Mall Food Court with infinite diverse choices, and shake my head.

How many companies are out there that have a token figurehead CEO who is Colored, Queered, and Handi-Capable? Surely some enterprising people exist who hire themselves out to be the Figure Head, the Totalitarian Token, the Corporate Clownface. In government, at some point they created a rule wherein any more than two people in management could not discuss an employee unless it was a formal committee setting with notes being taken, and one of the committee members had to have some Rainbow Plus Factor. That sounds okay, I guess? But what if you work in a 'unit' that only has one manager who meets the Rainbow qualification? I did work in such a unit, and so this one manager, who was female and a POC, who by most criteria was a mediocrity, got to sit in on every single committee/board that decided on promotions, awards, and assignments. She was given influence and power that she did not deserve and did not earn.

So what this means, is we have baked into our system a streamlined process to create Martin Bormanns. I pick on Bormann because he is an example of someone who never impressed anyone except for his office administration skills and his sycophancy, and perhaps a talent for knowing when and upon whose back to stab. And yet, he took one aspect of his dull job, a job none of the 'dynamic' leaders of the Third Reich wanted, that aspect being control of access to Der Fuhrer, and built his empire. Never mind that his power and influence increased just as the Reich was crumbling. Bormann was not an expert in any useful field, he could not create, he could not lead, he could not inspire, he could not figure out how to build tanks or jets or rockets faster, but he knew all the Reich-iest things to say, and he had the Nazi Plus Factor. Stalin is another example. After the Russian Revolution and the Winning Bolsheviks were divvying up the organs of government, Stalin opted to be the Party Secretary. The rest of them, who just so happen to be almost nameless and faceless to posterity, sneered and marveled that the Man of Steel would take such a nothing job. These are the people who were infamously disappeared from Soviet History.

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