A few rants in this post and a glimmer of hope as DEI and electric vehicle programmes face the harsh reality that businesses need to make a profit not support impractical and harmful woke ideologies.
It’s been a while since I posted anything apart from Binyamin Klempner’s Updates From Israel. A prime example of “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”.
The world has certainly changed since December 2023 when I wrote about the pendulum swinging back in this post “Common Sense Returns”. Sadly, not all those changes are positive or further evidence that the pendulum is swinging back to normality.
Attempts to destroy farmland by converting it to industrial and residential use are continuing in Ontario, other parts of Canada and much of the developed world.
The unsuccessful assassination attempt on Former US President Donald Trump was followed by the quick removal of current President Joe Biden from both public view and as the Democratic Party candidate. Were these incidents linked? One used as a trigger for the others? We may never know.
Media Shenanigans
The mainstream media’s ridiculous attempts to downplay the assassination attempt, criticize the Donald Trump/Elon Musk interview on X – the most viewed interview ever- and elevate an unpopular, ineffective Vice-President to the status of a modern heroine would be laughable if they were not so dangerous.
For more glaring examples of media bias, we only have to look at the coverage of the anti-immigration protests in the UK, where the “protesters” label of the Black Lives Matter, anti-Israel and Southport protests become “thugs”, “rioters” and “far-right extremists” when the protestors are middle-aged, indigenous, white British citizens.
The police arrested hundreds at these protests after falling over themselves to avoid confrontation with those at the “other” protests is it any wonder that British citizens are complaining about two-tier policing. In efforts to create prison space, the British authorities are releasing hardened criminals after serving 40% of their sentences to accommodate the recently arrested and fast-track convicted white protestors.
1984 Here We Come
In a move straight out of Mao’s little red book, the newly elected Labour government is threatening to jail people for observing protests, sharing videos of protests or posting anything deemed offensive on social media. They are also using the huge infrastructure of surveillance equipment to identify protestors. Now they are threatening to make it an offence to wear a mask – only 2 years after it was an offence NOT to wear a mask in public.
Winston Churchill and the WWII veterans who fought and died to stop the spread of Hitler’s authoritarian rule must be turning in their graves.
Good News – DEI In Disarray
Two more large US businesses have abandoned their “woke” DEI programmes. Harley Davidson and the owners of the Jack Daniels whisky brand have announced that they are stopping their programmes. These follow earlier announcements by John Deere and Tractor Supply Company which, as with Harley Davidson, had been exposed for discriminatory practices by activist Robby Starbuck who is on a mission to “restore sanity to corporate America”. It seems that Jack Daniels got wind of imminent exposure and took action.
Here’s a report courtesy of Dailymail UK.
Businesses are learning a fundamental fact- ideology neither pays wages to workers, nor dividends to shareholders. A fact that has automobile manufacturers rethinking the myth that electric vehicles will replace those with internal combustion engines any time soon.
