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Tech giant cuts off services to Columbia (CA)bookstore
The Modesto Bee ^ | January 23, 2021 | Marijke Rowland

Posted on 01/23/2021 8:13:01 AM PST by keat

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To: AndyJackson

I suspect that, outside the tech giants, the top management of most businesses would very much like to do what you suggest.

Unfortunately, between the woke diversity activists in their own HR departments, their own lawyers, and the expense of fighting losing battles in liberal dominated courts, they have decided instead to tell their customers to either suck it up or go somewhere else. They do this knowing it will drive a number of them away. But they have concluded this course of action leads to the highest net profit.

This capitulation is all driven by fear of the woke cancel culture. You saw it in action this past year when companies, many having no relation to the activities being protested, rushed to issue groveling statements and undertook absurd initiatives in an attempt to avoid being accused of not being woke enough.

The latest example of this is the “whiteness” training teachers are being forced to undergo and the moves being made in some school districts to abolish traditional grading. The “justifications” being advanced to support these measures are nothing but a liberal/leftist woke jargon polical science word salad. Of course, anyone objecting for any reason is automatically branded as a racist using the most tone deaf hysterical language possible.

I am beginning to seriously believe that woke advocates are so indoctrinated/obsessed that true communication with them is probably impossible. For the record, I feel exactly the same way about people holding extreme views on the right.


21 posted on 01/23/2021 9:23:56 AM PST by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Applicability depends upon being on your political leaning.


22 posted on 01/23/2021 9:24:06 AM PST by amorphous
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To: AndyJackson
An Open Letter to Businesses Interested in a Novel and Dynamic New Market
23 posted on 01/23/2021 9:27:04 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: amorphous

“Applicability depends upon on your political leaning.”


24 posted on 01/23/2021 9:28:22 AM PST by amorphous
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To: keat

Hitler had the Gestapo.

Big Tech has Terms of Service.


25 posted on 01/23/2021 9:32:52 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Don't blame me, I Voted for the guy who actually Won the 2020 Presidential Election...)
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To: keat
Our castrated Repugnant CongressCreeps have enabled every bit of this assault on Americans by being whores to the left. SCOTUS is similarly castrated, also being a shill to the left.

The left has stolen the presidential election. We knew they were going to do it. We watched as they did it. They gave us the finger the entire time, and nobody did a thing about it.

They can get away with anything, now, and they know it.

26 posted on 01/23/2021 9:32:57 AM PST by LouAvul (The wheels of America are coming off and the media have stolen the lug nuts.)
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To: dirtboy

A new form of government was created in the shadows by the powerful, called a corporation. We, the people, those who’ve been “left behind,” may need to adopt that model for ourselves and throw off our previous forms of government.


27 posted on 01/23/2021 9:39:00 AM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

Yes, I hear ya.

True


28 posted on 01/23/2021 9:46:57 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Biden: the Wizard of nLaws > the L is silent because Democrats don't recognize laws.)
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To: keat

This is small potatoes compared to the time when all corporate America becomes fully woke and utilities are free to disconnect dissenters from the grid.


29 posted on 01/23/2021 9:49:23 AM PST by Rebelbase (COVID misanthrope)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Yes, it is. I was kicked off of youtube without any reason other than “violation of terms”. Which “violation’ was never explained.


30 posted on 01/23/2021 9:53:54 AM PST by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: keat

Fascism. Big tech colluding with each other and government censors to shut down Deplorables.


31 posted on 01/23/2021 10:24:57 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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To: ought-six

It’s OK when they do it.


32 posted on 01/23/2021 12:11:23 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes. )
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