The Woke Street Journal
Was 2023 the year that ESG peaked?-Citywire (Paywall)
It wasn’t just Bud Light that was stung this year. In 2023, a number of companies found out that ‘go woke, go broke’ is more than a meme.
What about shareholders? ESG Is Under Attack. How Should Your Company Respond?-Harvard Business Review
They know customers, employees, and other stakeholders are watching. But it’s hard to be strategic about something as amorphous as “anti-ESG.” There is no single anti-ESG movement, and many voices are at odds. Some critics oppose sustainability entirely, while others support it but are deeply skeptical of corporate claims (especially from banks about ESG investing).
“The woke mind virus consists of creating very, very divisive identity politics…[that] amplifies racism; amplifies, frankly, sexism; and all of the -isms while claiming to do the opposite,” Musk said at an event in Italy. “It actually divides people and makes them hate each other and hate themselves.”
After vocal commitments following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, DEI programs in the tech industry are in broad retreat.
Some companies have laid off DEI staffers and leaders of diverse employee resource groups, downsized learning and development programs, and cut budgets for external DEI groups by as much as 90% in 2023, sources told CNBC.
The cuts come as the tech industry doubles down on artificial intelligence. With fewer diverse voices represented in AI development, the resulting products could be less accurate or more harmful to users.
My short sale watchlist for 2024. Sustainability Magazine’s Top 100 companies review-Sustainability
The GOP ‘Stimulus Package’ for Campus DEI-Cato Institute
Stefanik and her colleagues have drawn attention to a serious problem: elite academia’s capture by an illiberal orthodoxy branded as “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI). But the GOP’s pressure campaign is doomed to backfire. Its most likely result will be to spawn a new layer of speech‐suppressing bureaucracy on college campuses. If Republicans hate the DEI regime so much, why are they handing it a stimulus package?
Haven’t watched the Christmas episode yet, but not sounding great. Doctor Who Ncuti Gatwa Review: Ruined By The Woke Message-Cosmic Book News
“These proposed regulations and requirements will unnecessarily hold back our domestic industry, driving investment, manufacturing and technology leadership overseas,” Frank Wolak, chief executive of the Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy Association, said in a statement.
Report: ‘Dukes Of Hazzard’ Star Being Investigated By Secret Service For Post About Biden-Daily Wire
The identity of the agent was revealed to be this guy
Is he also working on the Biden impeachment probe? Syrian Dictator Bashar Al-Assad: ‘No Evidence That Six Million Jews Were Killed’ In Holocaust-Daily Wire
Sure looks like they are. The Fed Won’t Try to Boost Biden The central bank has only once changed its policy to help elect a presidential candidate: Nixon in 1972.-WSJ
Al Gore: Adopt The Left’s Climate Agenda Or Else There Will Be ‘One Billion Climate Refugees’-Daily Wire
Mediocre Male Athlete Switches to Women’s Team, Breaks College Track Records-Breitbart
“Meet Camden. A male who just broke the women’s 300m record on his college’s women’s track team,” Libs wrote. “Before he pretended to be a woman, he competed on the men’s team in high school, where was ranked in 19th place.”
“Why is @RITtigers allowing a man to steal women’s track records?”
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