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Harley-Davidson is dropping diversity initiatives after right-wing anti-DEI campaign
CNN ^ | Mon August 19, 2024 | Nathaniel Meyersohn

Posted on 08/21/2024 8:27:56 AM PDT by AZJeep

Harley-Davidson said Monday that it’s ending diversity and other progressive initiatives at the company. Harley-Davidson faced pressure online from Robby Starbuck, a conservative activist who has successfully taken on DEI policies at several American companies.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/19/business/harley-davidson-dei-john-deere-tractor-supply/index.html

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To: AZJeep

Their Euro Peon CEO needs to learn just who the Harley-Davidson consumers are. Obviously, the boy doesn’t know much about runnin’ a business.


21 posted on 08/21/2024 8:55:18 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Banana Voo Doo Queen is putting illegal scumbags on a Free Ride on the American Dream Express.)
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To: AZJeep

What’s Harley Davidsons thing with DEI in the first place? Luke sissy fags don’t ride Harleys.


22 posted on 08/21/2024 9:07:53 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: AZJeep

Harley riders should put their bikes’ manufacture dates in little chrome numbers on the bike to show it was made before Harley went Bud Light.


23 posted on 08/21/2024 9:08:43 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: txeagle

Exactly.

Every single H-D article of clothing I had went straight into the trash. Selling my last Heritage Softail this weekend.

Done with the whole stinking mess. Their bikes were never that good anyway.


24 posted on 08/21/2024 9:10:03 AM PDT by Redplum
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To: BigFreakinToad

“DEI is legal and blessed reverse discrimination.”

Affirmative Action on steroids.


25 posted on 08/21/2024 9:11:23 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: AZJeep

It’s not right wing owners, it’s every HD owner. How stupid can HD get? DEI goes against everything Harley.


26 posted on 08/21/2024 9:19:55 AM PDT by NavyShoe
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To: AZJeep

It’s not just DEI. It’s the Electric Bike Nonsense, and the Factory in Thailand.

Even my lesbian neighbor is outraged by that. (I have no control over who lives next door to me.)

But it’s a step in the right direction.

Until those idiots are FIRED, my 93FXR remains de-badged.


27 posted on 08/21/2024 9:22:14 AM PDT by left that other site ("Providence" ain't just a city in Rhode Island.)
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To: AZJeep

Too little too late, the homo hog is out of the barn.


28 posted on 08/21/2024 9:23:07 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Salman

Yeah, ain’t a lot of non-binary disabled pink hat quilters that I see riding hogs.


29 posted on 08/21/2024 9:24:28 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: AZJeep
HD rode the Boomer midlife crisis wave and is now crashing on the shores of millennial Uber riders.

I think that the marketing folks know that they need to cater to a new audience or slowly sink into irrelevancy. The LGBTQ+ was evidently a bad choice for a new market.

30 posted on 08/21/2024 9:30:16 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: V_TWIN

“Now if they could just get rid of the unions they’d get the prices out of the stupid zone.”

Unions in Thailand?


31 posted on 08/21/2024 9:33:41 AM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Nobody wants to ride around on a 900 pound parade float anymore. And now that they’ve been homofied, ferrget it


32 posted on 08/21/2024 9:35:17 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: AZJeep

Good. My Harley stock took a dump after the news got out that they were going woke. I hope it bounces back up high enough that I can get out without losing too much. I don’t need another capital loss this year.


33 posted on 08/21/2024 9:35:44 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (JD VANCE IN 2028!)
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To: AZJeep

What about the idiotic long stroke 45-degree V twin engine? They gonna keep that or drop it along with the woke??


34 posted on 08/21/2024 9:39:00 AM PDT by ganeemead (everything )
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To: AZJeep
My guess is the exec who got the idea to go woke was a big Village People fan.


35 posted on 08/21/2024 9:39:44 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (JD VANCE IN 2028!)
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To: left that other site

The factory in Thailand is supposed to make bikes only for Europe and the rest of the world outside the US.
They claim that all HD sold in the USA are made here.
(Source - HD web site)


36 posted on 08/21/2024 9:45:44 AM PDT by AZJeep
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To: steve86

Getting away from unions is probably a big reason for Harleys Thailand decision.

Got hired at a very well known aerospace company back in 1982, they made no secret of the fact they moved to my city from South Bend Indiana to get away from unions as it was killing their ability to be competitive in the industry, and they warned the workforce repeatedly that any attempt to organize would be met with them moving again.

Sure enough, 5 years later some dipshit employees started pushing to unionize......a year after that the company made good on their promise and moved to another state.

I’ve worked in union and non union shops and personally speaking I never saw an upside to collective bargaining units.

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37 posted on 08/21/2024 9:47:15 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: AZJeep

And you believe that?


38 posted on 08/21/2024 9:47:53 AM PDT by left that other site ("Providence" ain't just a city in Rhode Island.)
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To: AZJeep

HD is an import protected company. In other words a Federal government supplicant. They will need to toe the Prog agenda if they wish to feed at the Fed trough. So Prog values, unions, Green, equity, and high prices for an inferior product.

Ironically the Trump tariffs have caused HD to move production overseas to escape retaliatory tariffs. With 40% of production exported they cannot win a trade war.

Import protection was fun for HD until their suppliers (steel, components) got in on the action.


39 posted on 08/21/2024 9:52:19 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: dragnet2
They might have had a chance with Gen-X if they slimmed them down a bit. More grunge and less "good ole' rock 'n roll" in their advertising.

It's still not too late since the Gen-Xers are going through their midlife crises now.

40 posted on 08/21/2024 9:53:06 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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