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I Just Got Kicked Off a ‘Diverse Thought’ Panel for Wrongthink: Corporate DEI Lives On
New York Post ^ | Jennifer Sey

Posted on 03/21/2025 1:02:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Woke capitalism is alive and well. Don’t be fooled by American companies’ public statements suggesting they’re abandoning identity-based diversity, equity and inclusion policies in favor of merit and diversity of thought.

I’m here to prove it: I’ve been canceled. Again. This time, bounced from a conference boasting a theme of “breaking down walls.” Five months ago, Peer 150, a networking group for top human resources executives, asked me to speak at one of its events.

I was pleasantly surprised: I’m pretty well known at this point as being aggressively non-woke. In 2020, I was the only C-suite executive in a major Fortune 1000 company to push back against lockdowns and school closures during the pandemic. I resigned from Levi’s, a company I’d worked in for 23 years. And then I was banished from all of corporate America for my disobedience.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1984; affirmativeaction; bigbrother; bigbusiness; dei; diversity; groupthink; media; pc; woke; wrongthink
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1 posted on 03/21/2025 1:02:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

That “Enemy of the State” designation will follow her forever.


2 posted on 03/21/2025 1:07:50 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: nutmeg

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3 posted on 03/21/2025 1:09:16 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: nickcarraway

Consider yourself lucky. Why did you agree to be on it in the first place?


4 posted on 03/21/2025 1:12:11 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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Disability discrimination can be a federal crime. Perhaps wrongful termination for DEI objections can also be; otherwise, convince me the recent termination was either a form of free speech and/or association.


5 posted on 03/21/2025 1:13:45 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: nickcarraway

The C-suite is getting crowded. It should be CEOs only.


6 posted on 03/21/2025 1:14:19 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: nickcarraway

Trump’s administration is just a speed bump on the road to civilization collapse.


7 posted on 03/21/2025 1:15:18 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: nickcarraway

Our strength is in our unity, not in our diversity.


8 posted on 03/21/2025 1:18:26 PM PDT by nagant
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To: GingisK

Possibly but fighting them daily is more fun than just assuming we can’t win.


9 posted on 03/21/2025 1:18:48 PM PDT by arkfreepdom
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To: nickcarraway

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” - William F. Buckley, Jr.


10 posted on 03/21/2025 1:26:07 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: nickcarraway
Brings to mind the emphasis on "Goals and Timetables" insistence of 40 years ago. Mandated and rewarded (you had to make damn sure that the personnel selections met the "CATEGORIES" but..., also..., they were really capable employees. God Help the manager who was handed a pool of candidates who, though "The Right Class" were devoid of real skills and abilities! If they failed to select the "Right Person" for advancement..., a dismal future of hearings, reviews, lawsuits, etc. awaited them.

Given the preceding paragraph..., executives and managers began to take the "Easy Way Out" and become lauded for their "Wokeness" and have the decline of their organization's performance excused for a time. Math being what it is, that time has come to an end and organizations decline and fail (other then governmental organizations..., they thought!) We are at a "Day of Reckoning" currently.. Time will tell whether we survive!

11 posted on 03/21/2025 1:28:15 PM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom line")
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To: 17th Miss Regt

It’s Portland


12 posted on 03/21/2025 1:29:11 PM PDT by A strike ("We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files ..)
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To: nickcarraway

Now is a great environment to sue companies if they did something to you that is illegal in the “name of DEI” …

Explore your legal options.


13 posted on 03/21/2025 1:31:02 PM PDT by Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey ("I have an open mind ... just not so open that my brain falls out onto the floor!!")
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To: A strike

Yup. Portland, home of the spineless, land of the slave, where inclusiveness is had by exclusion and diversity by conformity.


14 posted on 03/21/2025 1:39:54 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: nickcarraway

I’ve been kicked out of several discussions of Free Speech/Free Expression.


15 posted on 03/21/2025 1:53:35 PM PDT by Tzimisce ( )
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To: GingisK

“ Trump’s administration is just a speed bump on the road to civilization collapse.”

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I think we’re going to be securing the elections and if that happens, along with shutting down the criminals stealing our taxpayer dollars, we stand a good chance of few decades of sanity. Don’t give up yet.


16 posted on 03/21/2025 2:00:49 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: nickcarraway

I got kicked off a wildlife page when some woman wanted someone to come and relocate a nest of WASPS!
I said “You don’t relocate WASPS, you KILL THEM!” Wham. I got the boot.

I got kicked off a movie page when they were talking about the French film Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête(1946)
I simply asked “Which was more faggy? The Prince in that film or Lord Darnley in MARY OF SCOTLAND.”(1936) I got the boot!


17 posted on 03/21/2025 2:06:37 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: nickcarraway

I stopped buying Levis 20 years ago because of the poor quality they have become. Now my wife gets me Wranglers from WalMart for half the price and they last twice as long


18 posted on 03/21/2025 2:15:10 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: arkfreepdom

Of course, I agree.


19 posted on 03/21/2025 2:19:11 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: A strike

Not surprising at all.


20 posted on 03/21/2025 2:32:08 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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