News Round-Up
27 October 2024
by Will Jones
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DEI initiatives and woke ideology are not making workplaces friendlier but hostile to anyone not fully on board with them, writes Raquel Rosario Sánchez. "The pitfalls are not theoretical to me – I’ve lived them."
As though LinkedIn wasn't woke enough, the social media site has added a 'Pronoun Button' that will drive normal people away and hasten its descent into Facebook-like irrelevance, says C. J. Strachan.
It's not only large corporations with hyperactive HR departments that are succumbing to efficiency-sapping wokery, says C.J. Strachan. Small and medium-sized enterprises are being swallowed up by DEI as well.
"People go to watch a movie to be entertained. They don't go to get a message." Billionaire Disney investor Nelson Peltz has hit out at the woke media giant after a string of flops.
Planet Fitness's valuation has plummeted $400 million in five days after the company banned a member who shared a photo of a trans woman (i.e., a man) using a female locker room.
"I'm an HR professional and this is the only way to resist the growing tyranny of DEI and corporate wokery." C.J. Strachan shares his insights from 30 years fighting the nonsense on the inside – while keeping his job.
Big Tech companies like Google and Microsoft are not genuinely private, says Jeffrey Tucker. "They are de facto state actors. They all work hand-in-glove and which is the hand and which is the glove is no longer clear."
Doritos sacked a transgender influencer after finding out he had written social media posts threatening to do "thuggish things" to a 12-year-old girl.
Ken Charman has recently retired as a CEO, but like many over-50s, he has no intention of going back into a corporate world that is beholden to DEI dogma and would cancel you if you ever let on what you really think.
A growing boycott of Bud Light over its partnership with trans 'influencer' Dylan Mulvaney has hammered parent group AB InBev, where sales fell 17.4% in Q4 2023 on top of 16.6% in Q3.
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