Goodyear goes Woke, cops backlash, walks it back

[Metaphor]

So.

An employee posted a photo of a slide explaining the company's 'zero tolerance' policy, shown during a training session at the company's Topeka factory. The slide says it is okay for employees to express support (via attire) for certain sentiments (such as BLM and LGBT) but not for others (such as All Lives Matter/Blue Lives Matter/any political slogans with a specific singling out of MAGA as unacceptable.)

There is ambiguity about the "official" status of the slide, as Goodyear denies it was created by 'corporate' and was not shown as part of a diversity training class, but Goodyear has not denied it was shown in the Topeka factory.

Audio allegedly leaked from the meeting in question reinforces the content of the slide.

After hearing about the proscription on MAGA attire, President Trump suggested a boycott of the brand.

Finally, the company CEO says that Goodyear 'supports law enforcement' and will allow employees to express that support through their attire (presumably allowing a 'blue lives matter' slogan on a t-shirt or similar).

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Seriously, politics and work place? That isn't woke. That is typical.

 

[Bronzeage]

Unlike politicians, whose future is the time between now and the next election, corporation have to look much further ahead. They are concerned with maintaining and then increasing the value of the corporation. When corporations started to embrace BLM and LGBT issues, it has nothing to do with fairness or justice. Strange as it sounds in the Trump era, corporations pay good money for good advice. They know the MAGA agenda is a losing strategy, not just politically, but financially.

It's a simple calculation of what the political norm will be in the next generation and steering for the middle of the road.

 

[Worldtraveller]

#ftp

 

[SimpleDon]

I can't help but to commend you and others here for your laser-like focus on the most critical political problems that we face today. In daily, repeated threads you and others are pointing out the tremendous injustices by numerous conspiracies being inflicted on white, conservative men, detailing the grinding down of their civil rights in order to advance the privileges of "those people."

Thank God in heaven above that you have your priorities straight unlike those here needlessly worrying about a pandemic, an economic depression, the hoax of systemic racism, and the hoax of creeping authoritarianism undermining our democracy, which was never meant to be a democracy, read your Constitution!

 

[Politesse]

Once again using "Woke" as a dubious synonym for anything left of the political center.

 

[Jarhyn]

Once again using "Woke" as a dubious synonym for anything left of the political center.

It's like they're trying to make it into a pejorative for anyone who actually looks at reality and acts accordingly and with concern for the society of people rather than some tribal subset thereof.

Whenever I see someone use that concept pejoratively, I just shake my head and write them off: They have clearly decided to not be within the society of people.

 

[Politesse]

Aye, it's the new "liberal", which was the new "radical", which was the new "anarchist", which was the new "heathen", etc, etc. Call people what you like, I suppose, but don't expect them to be afraid of a label which has lost all meaning due to overuse.

 

[Derec]

Seriously, politics and work place? That isn't woke. That is typical.

Viewpoint discrimination at the workplace. That is very much "woke".

I think politics and workplaces should not mix but that should apply to "woke" political slogans like #BLM.

 

[Derec]

It's a simple calculation of what the political norm will be in the next generation and steering for the middle of the road.

#BLM is an extremist, racist, Marxist ideology that is as far from "middle of the road" as MAGA, if not more so.

Companies like Goodyear are very shortsighted and are like the proverbial capitalists Lenin talked about, the ones that would sell communists rope that the commies then use to hang them.

#BLM will eventually turn on Goodyear too, as no company can long sustain to appease such an extremist movement.

 

[Derec]

I can't help but to commend you and others here for your laser-like focus on the most critical political problems that we face today. In daily, repeated threads you and others are pointing out the tremendous injustices by numerous conspiracies being inflicted on white, conservative men, detailing the grinding down of their civil rights in order to advance the privileges of "those people."

Thank God in heaven above that you have your priorities straight unlike those here needlessly worrying about a pandemic, an economic depression, the hoax of systemic racism, and the hoax of creeping authoritarianism undermining our democracy, which was never meant to be a democracy, read your Constitution!

One can focus on more than one issue. When people can lose their jobs for criticizing #BLM or posting mildly offensive memes about Kamala Harris (as if far more offensive memes are not being posted daily about Trump with nobody getting fired!), those are also a civil rights issues. Civil rights should not only be for so-called minorities or those with politically correct views.

By the way, now Amazon has pulled "Joe and the Hoe" merchandise. But offensive merchandise about Trump? Totally allowed!
If you think merchandise making fun of Trump is ok, but merchandise making fun of Joe and Kamala is not, how do you justify that?

 

[Derec]

Once again using "Woke" as a dubious synonym for anything left of the political center.

It is a term those on the far left, particularly #BLM extremists, came up with to describe themselves because they like to pretend they are somehow more enlightened than the rest of us. Reality - their heads are so far up their own asses, they haven't seen daylight since 2014!

 

[Derec]

It's like they're trying to make it into a pejorative for anyone who actually looks at reality and acts accordingly and with concern for the society of people rather than some tribal subset thereof.

"Woke" people and the "cancel culture" they pioneered where 100% loyalty to the leftist agenda is demanded are the most tribal subset of the society today. They have nothing to do with "looking at reality".

Whenever I see someone use that concept pejoratively, I just shake my head and write them off: They have clearly decided to not be within the society of people.

Case in point. Anybody who dares criticize the "wokesters" gets literally dehumanized by "woke" left wing extremists like you.

 

[ZiprHead]

It's like they're trying to make it into a pejorative for anyone who actually looks at reality and acts accordingly and with concern for the society of people rather than some tribal subset thereof.

"Woke" people and the "cancel culture" they pioneered where 100% loyalty to the leftist agenda is demanded are the most tribal subset of the society today. They have nothing to do with "looking at reality".

Whenever I see someone use that concept pejoratively, I just shake my head and write them off: They have clearly decided to not be within the society of people.

Case in point. Anybody who dares criticize the "wokesters" gets literally dehumanized by "woke" left wing extremists like you.

What a load of horse shit.

There has always been a "cancel culture" and sometimes it was a lot more violent. Do you wonder what happened to "uppity" black people in your very own Georgia?

 

[laughing dog]

Case in point. Anybody who dares criticize the "wokesters" gets literally dehumanized by "woke" left wing extremists like you.

I am sure the irony of that comment escapes you.

 

[Derec]

What a load of horse shit.
There has always been a "cancel culture" and sometimes it was a lot more violent. Do you wonder what happened to "uppity" black people in your very own Georgia?

Two wrongs don't make a right. Especially when wrongs from ~100 years ago are used to justify wrongs today, like you are doing.

 

[Derec]

I am sure the irony of that comment escapes you.

No irony. Jarhyn is denying the humanity of anybody not aligned with him politically. Something I have never done nor thought.

 

[ZiprHead]

What a load of horse shit.
There has always been a "cancel culture" and sometimes it was a lot more violent. Do you wonder what happened to "uppity" black people in your very own Georgia?

Two wrongs don't make a right. Especially when wrongs from ~100 years ago are used to justify wrongs today, like you are doing.

What's the wrong in this case?

 

[Bronzeage]

It's like they're trying to make it into a pejorative for anyone who actually looks at reality and acts accordingly and with concern for the society of people rather than some tribal subset thereof.

"Woke" people and the "cancel culture" they pioneered where 100% loyalty to the leftist agenda is demanded are the most tribal subset of the society today. They have nothing to do with "looking at reality".

Whenever I see someone use that concept pejoratively, I just shake my head and write them off: They have clearly decided to not be within the society of people.

Case in point. Anybody who dares criticize the "wokesters" gets literally dehumanized by "woke" left wing extremists like you.

Nothing says "canceled" like being dragged out of one's home in the middle of the night and lynched, or getting shot in the back by a policeman who feared for his life.

 

[Derec]

What's the wrong in this case?

Take your pick. Both the viewpoint discrimination by Goodyear and Jarhyn's dehumanization of people who disagree with him on politics are very much wrong.