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Fighting Wokeness
American Thinker ^ | February 14, 2023 | Jack Gleason

Posted on 02/14/2023 6:22:46 AM PST by NorthernDancer

The days of “an honest wage for a day’s work” are long gone. In addition to having to work harder while inflation eats up their pay increases, employees are now forced to monitor their behavior and even their own thoughts in order to keep their jobs.

Freedom of speech and expression are gone -- even when you’re not at work. Corporations are caving to pressure from liberal groups and government bureaucracies and establishing policies to silence all forms of conservative thought and speech in order to advance the liberal agenda.

Worst of all, as consumers, we’re supporting these companies without even knowing it.

It’s the same for stockholders. They invest their savings -- or their pensions are invested for them -- with companies that no longer have their financial interests at heart.

But corporations are bound by law to consider corporate profits their top priority.

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As consumers, most Americans don’t know the views of the companies they’re investing in, or buying from.

Enter the 1792 Exchange.

“In 2021, a group of business leaders and families formed 1792 Exchange to preserve freedom of religion, speech, and enterprise. 1792 Exchange staff partner with leaders and organizations countering “woke capitalism” and with organizations vulnerable to corporations using their size and influence to stifle speech or deny services.

1792 is when the first American stock exchange was founded -- as an apolitical body.

The 1792 Exchange has compiled a list of over a thousand companies and ranked them according to their likelihood of denying services, contracts, or investments based on a client’s views or beliefs.

You can go to the website and check on the various companies you deal with to learn their score.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: corporations; esgs; rating; woke
The article provides a link to ratings of numerous companies concerning how “woke” they are.
1 posted on 02/14/2023 6:22:46 AM PST by NorthernDancer
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To: NorthernDancer

The 1792 Exchange website and company ratings is not only comprehensive, it is most interesting. Many thanks for the article including the link. Cheers!


2 posted on 02/14/2023 6:31:16 AM PST by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: NorthernDancer
Freedom of speech and expression are gone -- even when you’re not at work.

Only if you let them be. Stop being victims and fight.

3 posted on 02/14/2023 6:50:25 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: ConservativeInPA; glennaro

“The 1792 Exchange website and company ratings is not only comprehensive, it is most interesting.”

Looks to be very similar to 2ndvote.
https://www.2ndvote.com/company-scores/

“Stop being victims and fight.”

Define “fight”? What is the actual actionable result going to look like? Some of the wokest companies you can name are in tech, yet how many people do you see complaining about woke Google from their Android phones or woke Apple from their Macs and iPads? That’s not fighting at all if you’re using the enemy’s products and supporting them financially.

In most instances, “fight” just means click the donate button and pay someone else to do the hard work, right?

April’s coming up soon here. When’s the last time you saw a Tax Day Tea Party?


4 posted on 02/14/2023 8:12:10 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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To: NorthernDancer

I’m glad that I retired in 2012, after 23yrs of owning my own business. I’d never do well in this eff’ed-up business atmosphere.


5 posted on 02/14/2023 8:52:58 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Thanks for the info., ProgressingAmerica. I bookmarked 2nd Vote as well.


6 posted on 02/14/2023 9:34:12 AM PST by NorthernDancer (“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”)
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To: Carriage Hill

Before I retired my employer had already created “teams” of the competent to do all the real work.

The affirmative action crowd was kept busy shuffling useless paperwork.


7 posted on 02/14/2023 9:40:04 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: NorthernDancer

What color equals freedom, what do the ratings mean?


8 posted on 02/14/2023 12:25:03 PM PST by Glad2bnuts ("People who didn't take take the Jab have -0- regrets, those who did may be SADS.)
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To: NorthernDancer

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9 posted on 02/14/2023 4:14:50 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: NorthernDancer

bkmk


10 posted on 02/14/2023 4:31:48 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Glad2bnuts

Green-freest, yellow-mixed, red-danger


11 posted on 02/14/2023 6:39:40 PM PST by NorthernDancer (“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”)
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To: cgbg
The affirmative action crowd was kept busy shuffling useless paperwork.

Out of curiosity, did they determine the placement of individuals in the AA crowd by appearance, or by performance?

12 posted on 02/15/2023 9:42:40 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed

The AA crowd identified themselves—they were totally unable to deal with complex or difficult issues.

Their appearance was just a coincidence of course!


13 posted on 02/15/2023 9:46:35 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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