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Why the 'Woke' Corporations Back China - Greenfield
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2019/10/why-woke-corporations-back-china.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook ^ | Tue Oct 22, 2019 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 10/22/2019 10:04:18 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Why the 'Woke' Corporations Back China

Posted by Daniel Greenfield 0 Comments
Think there’s a contradiction between ‘woke’ corporate titans like Apple and Disney silencing anyone opposed to China’s crackdown on protesters in Hong Kong?

It’s not hypocrisy, it’s synergy.

The same forces that made the major brands scattered around your kitchen, living room and garage broadcast their support for gun control, gay marriage and illegal immigration are fueling their support for the People’s Republic of China pulling another Tiananmen Square in Hong Kong.

The lefties in Beijing and Berkeley used the same set of ideological tools to force companies to toe the party line. They roped off access to an appealing customer base, the population of mainland China, urban millennials with huge amounts of disposable income, in exchange for ideological compliance.

Communist China is one entangled oligarchy which mingles political party and company. Sound familiar?

The CEO of Nike sits on the board of Disney. The CEO of Disney until recently sat on the board of Apple. The CEO of Apple sits on the board of Nike. Good thing we have a “free market economy” isn’t it?

Disney, Apple and all the rest have no problem understanding their Chinese Communist counterparts.

ESPN smears democracy protesters in Hong Kong for the same reason that it celebrated Colin Kaepernick. There’s a fundamental contradiction in principles between supporting a Communist police state and denouncing American police officers, but a perfect synergy of political expediency.

Disney, ESPN’s parent company, has embraced identity politics from the top down, even as its head honcho, Bob Iger, remains whiter than vanilla ice cream, not because it really believes in this stuff. The Chinese Communist Party believes in One China. Its American counterparts believe in A Thousand Genders. Lefty power in China is built on unity and solidarity. Lefty power in America is built on divisive minority coalitions. But it’s only a difference if you focus on the means rather than the ends.

And the Mouse didn’t eat the entire entertainment industry by being unable to see the endgame. Avengers Endgame brought in $612 million in China. That’s the real endgame that it cares about.

In America and China, a lefty political elite controls the culture. Chinese and American lefties interlock cultural, economic and political power. Disney, once seen as a square family friendly studio, can rule the box offices in America and China because it advances the cultural goals of their political elites.

American corporations went ‘woke’ because their ideal customer base, wealthy millennials, were reprogrammed by academia. Getting access to young people with lots of money required ritual virtue signaling, first by cultural industries, which didn’t need much encouraging to function as gatekeepers, censors and reeducators, and then by all the other industries which bowed to the culture.

If Disney didn’t advance the party line, its comic book movies would be ridiculed, dismissed and denounced, and its cartoon remakes would be accused of racism in America. And in China, where the loci of political control are even simpler, they would never be released in the country’s movies theaters.

China’s Commies control the entire economy. America’s lefties control the cultural economy. And our few real exports to China are either agricultural or cultural. And soybean farmers aren’t tweeting about Hong Kong. The ‘wokest’ parts of our economy, entertainment and tech, are that way because they depend on the cultural sanction of the same political movement that killed millions in China.

If you’re going to sell thousand-dollar phones made by slave labor in some dusty factory town where the air is poison, you need the sanction of the Communist Party of China and the culture industry of California. And if you’re going to dump your cultural garbage in American and Chinese movie theaters, both owned by the same Chinese corporations, you’ll need to run the stuff by cultural censors.

Chinese censors are concerned about portraying their leaders as powerful and discouraging insurrection. American censors want to push their identity politics. That’s how you end up with ESPN cheering Colin and booing Hong Kong protesters. Chinese and American commies both get what they want and ESPN gets a foothold in the Chinese market and among the Ivy League’s wealthy woke grads.

The Hong Kong protesters won’t be too happy, but how many Avengers movies do they watch? How many iPhones can they buy? How many copies of Battlefield do they play? That’s the real question.

The ‘enemies of the people’ in Hong Kong are free market Christians who don’t want a police state controlling their lives. Funny coincidence, those are also the ‘enemies of the people’ in America.

Giant multinational monopolies don’t like free markets. They encourage competition.

The last thing the NBA, Disney, Apple, Nike and the rest of the ‘megas’ want is competition. What they want is a walled garden tended by a kindly Zen-Communist tyrant who will give them a virgin territory in exchange for a huge slice of the pie to be shared with local political partners. And, of course, slavish devotion to the tyranny of whatever it is the locals believe in, dialectical materialism, the transcendence of gender, which is a small price to pay by people who don’t have any principles or believe in anything.

It doesn’t really matter if this walled garden is in China or California. Either way, the ideal outcome is a totalitarian leftist state and the enemies are Christians who believe in a free market economy.

Can you think of anything a soulless ‘woke’ monopoly would hate and fear more than religious believers who also believe in personal freedom? That’s why Disney, Apple and the ChiComs are on the same page.

Apple, Disney and all the rest are about brands. A brand is a form of identity.

Brands don’t make good products. Instead they churn out overpriced junk and use advertising to fuse consumer loyalty to their brand. And that brand, a sports team, an Apple logo, becomes part of the identity of the people who are brainwashed into identifying with it even to their own detriment.

That’s why ad agencies have gone gaga for identity politics. And why every other ad you see is virtue signaling so hard that it would make Mao roll his eyes. They’re all in the manufactured identity business.

Identity politics manufactures identities and then convinces its dupes that their lives are hopeless and incomplete until they also implement open borders, gun control, and a ban on fossil fuels.

Sound familiar? Buy into the revolution now. Organizers are standing by to take your call.

That’s also why religious believers are the enemy. They don’t make ideal consumers.

People who have a form of meaning in their lives that isn’t for sale on Black Friday aren’t good consumers. Lefties with thirty genders and a hole the size of Cleveland where meaning should be, are.

So are Communist drones in a society drifting away from Communism while suppressing religion.

That’s why California and Communist China are the capitals of ‘Capitamunism’. And why free market Christians are the enemies in both of the capitals where identity politics are their own religion.

In China, it’s nationalism. In America, it’s anti-nationalism. But those are just different identities. And advertising is in the business of monetizing identities. The militant Chinese nationalist vocally insisting that everything in Asia belongs to Beijing and the furious Black Lives Matter activist demanding that we build Wakanda in Oklahoma are two sides of the same coin and ESPN will market to both of them.

And if a few protesters in Hong Kong or police officers in Dallas get shot, that’s also the same coin.

What really matters is the next game, the next movie, the next phone and the next crackdown. What matters is that you can buy governments, shut down protests and suppress the truth. What matters is that more people, in China and America, are realizing that what they want isn’t a sale: it’s freedom.









Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.


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1 posted on 10/22/2019 10:04:18 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
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2 posted on 10/22/2019 10:05:53 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (A deep and terrible ignorance born of abject corruption is required to hate our president.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

JESUS IS KING!
That very proclamation is a death sentence to those proclaiming its essential truth. Say it in a multi national Boardroom and get destroyed. Say it in the Politboro and get shot. It’s all the same result. The final truth, however, is:
JESUS IS KING!


3 posted on 10/22/2019 10:17:24 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (A deep and terrible ignorance born of abject corruption is required to hate our president.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

I would have guessed because their precious Apple love objects are made there?

No, did not bother to read anything about “awake”, or whatever it is.


4 posted on 10/22/2019 11:07:11 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Louis Foxwell
"In China, it’s nationalism. In America, it’s anti-nationalism. But those are just different identities. And advertising is in the business of monetizing identities. The militant Chinese nationalist vocally insisting that everything in Asia belongs to Beijing and the furious Black Lives Matter activist demanding that we build Wakanda in Oklahoma are two sides of the same coin and ESPN will market to both of them."

That's a disaster in logic. It works more like this.

China wants its own people to be solidly nationalist while wanting Americans to be globalists. China wants its own people to be free of vices and sexual confusion while wanting Americans to be dying from vices and impoverished from sexual confusion. Those are traits of communist expansionism as known by older people who were more educated about it.

As for Christians, many Christians are not conservative. Many non-Christians are quite conservative. Remember the speech about identity politics and apply it consistently.

"And if a few protesters in Hong Kong or police officers in Dallas get shot, that’s also the same coin."

I don't see the analogy there. Were some police officers protesting against communism in Dallas?

5 posted on 10/22/2019 11:30:35 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Louis Foxwell

Corporations have no soul.


6 posted on 10/22/2019 11:44:56 PM PDT by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

JESUS IS KING!

In Cuba, before the executioners’ bullets ripped through their bodies, Castro’s victims shouted “Viva Christo Rey!”


7 posted on 10/23/2019 2:32:35 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Louis Foxwell

The cold war with the USSR lasted from 1947-1991.

I’m now wondering when the cold war with the enemy plants within our own government started. Clearly the entire dem party and most of the MSM is now been compromised as enemies of the USA. Can we now include corporate leaders among the compromised and now considered enemy assets as well?

I’d like to see an in depth investigation into who and how deep the penetration of these compromised departments within our government goes then of course a full purge of these enemy assets.


8 posted on 10/23/2019 2:44:23 AM PDT by Boomer (Our melting pot has turned into a pressure cooker)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Bump. This one is just awesome, ever for Greenfield.


9 posted on 10/23/2019 3:46:08 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: familyop
I do believe you missed his point.

See past the means and view the end.

10 posted on 10/23/2019 4:32:55 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (The Elite: Too stupid to know when to quit stealing!)
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To: familyop; All
"And if a few protesters in Hong Kong or police officers in Dallas get shot, that’s also the same coin." I don't see the analogy there. Were some police officers protesting against communism in Dallas?

Both are or would be shot in the name of promoting leftist ideologies. In Dallas, "Black lives matter", pushing identity politics to take down the U.S. Constitutional Republic. In Hong Kong, (future tense), pushing one China Communism to protect a Leftist ideology.

11 posted on 10/23/2019 5:39:10 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
The following quote has been misattribute to different people but the sentiment holds true:

"The capitalists will sell us the rope we hang them with."

US companies used to promote US standards and western values. The rise of the global marketplace is a race to the lowest common denominator.

The ideals of western freedoms will be curtailed because 'the spice must flow'.

12 posted on 10/23/2019 5:41:53 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: familyop
As for Christians, many Christians are not conservative

You need to say "many 'self-identified' Christians are not conservative". Because the fact is that they are also not Christian.

Liberalism is directly opposed to Christianity

One can no more be a liberal and a Christian than one can be a human and a dump truck.

13 posted on 10/23/2019 5:47:32 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: Louis Foxwell
I'm a huge Daniel Greenfield fan, but I don't think he has it right as to why our nihilist anarchists are allied with the socially conservative nationalists of China.

Only the western Left is truly Left. In non-western and Communist countries, the Left is essentially what most people call "right wing extremism." Our self-hating nihilistic Left essentially supports Rightism among people and countries with "otherness." It's part of the self-hatred that makes the western Left truly Left.

14 posted on 10/23/2019 6:19:35 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Modernism began two thousand years ago.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

What they’re after is Judeo-Christian Western Civilization...
we’re the people who want ‘more than junk’ on Black Friday... We are the enemy of totalitarians...


15 posted on 10/23/2019 9:41:01 PM PDT by GOPJ (Rearrange all the letters of "Pierre Delecto" you get "REELECT PERIOD." - PJ-Comix)
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