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   "Jeffery Epstein: Trump Confidante"  wrote in   
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   > Lee wrote   
   >   
   >> Put these faggot ass-kissers out of business.   
      
   Ever noticed how often businesses are uber-villains in popular films and   
   television? Gordon Gekkos and cartoon corporate bad guys are common tropes   
   of cinema. These caricatures are, for the most part, unfair and   
   inaccurate. Sure, there have been Enrons and industry scandals such as the   
   one that recently shook Wells Fargo. Yet, in advanced countries that enjoy   
   economic freedom and stable institutions, most businesses most of the time   
   benefit society and generate widespread health and prosperity.   
      
   Businesses, acting ethically and in good faith, follow rules, treat others   
   with respect, and enable cooperation and trust among diverse individuals.   
   They provide value by producing goods and services that make our lives   
   easier and better.   
      
   Why, then, are businesses adopting woke policies and contributing to   
   social justice movements? Do their leaders believe they can purchase   
   absolution for their hard-earned profits or boost their brand with   
   progressive politics? If wokeness is antithetical to good and honest   
   business, why would corporations "go woke"?   
      
   The call for businesses to be more socially responsible, or woke, presumes   
   that they are, presently, socially irresponsible. The irony is that, once   
   honest businesses pursue wokeism, they become irresponsible and begin to   
   act, in many cases, unethically. They then resemble the unflattering   
   depictions of sinister corporations with leadership that merely performs   
   virtue, care, or concern to accrue power and wealth, manipulate   
   politicians and government officials, and sway public opinion.   
      
   PROFESSOR ROLLS OUT SCHOLARS PROGRAM AIMED AT ENDING ‘WOKEISM’ IN   
   CORPORATE AMERICA   
      
   Corporations often pursue woke agendas, from diversity, equity, and   
   inclusion (DEI) to environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG),   
   to avoid scrutiny of their practices that are, in fact, harmful to   
   minorities or the environment. They lobby for government regulations in   
   these areas to minimize competition and solidify their position through   
   government privileges.   
      
   If a private business wishes to alienate consumers by pursuing wokeness or   
   social justice initiatives that aren’t consistent with the principles and   
   convictions of most Americans, it has that right and can take that risk.   
   But seeking to impose wokeism through government affects everyone in   
   society.   
      
   Wokeness as an ideology is necessarily bound up with the growth of   
   government and the dismantling of norms and institutions grounded in   
   historically liberal principles like equality under the law, due process,   
   and free speech. Woke companies attach themselves to government agencies   
   and programs, exacerbating rather than abating social unrest and division.   
   Woke corporations engender surveillance culture and prosecutorial   
   attitudes among their employees, who, rather than collaborating as a team,   
   divide and define themselves by their race or gender, not their character   
   or excellence.   
      
   Wokeness is fundamentally illiberal, consolidating power through   
   corporate-government partnerships, concentrating power in the hands of an   
   elite few, and weaponizing the resultant quasi-public apparatus against   
   private individuals holding views that are inconsistent with various   
   social justice initiatives. As the new woke corporate giants amass power   
   through government backing, they broaden the parameters of wokeness to   
   indict a wider array of people and activity as racist, sexist, homophobic,   
   transphobic, and so forth.   
      
   Anyone who doubts that corporate wokeness is bound up with government can   
   look to the case of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management   
   company that invests, among other things, government pension and   
   retirement funds. BlackRock has become a gateway to government positions   
   in Washington, D.C., especially in the Biden Administration. Work for   
   BlackRock, and you might just land an influential appointment in the   
   federal government where you can oversee a vast bureaucracy with massive   
   regulative authority.   
      
   BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, a notorious supporter of Democrat politics,   
      
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