{"id":101351,"date":"2017-10-18T00:47:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T07:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=101351"},"modified":"2017-10-16T17:51:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T00:51:11","slug":"corporate-america-isnt-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2017\/10\/corporate-america-isnt-woke.html","title":{"rendered":"Corporate America Isn’t Woke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A friend of mine sent me this piece<\/a> a while back and it is even more pointed in the wake of Corporate Hollywood\u2019s sudden discovery of conscience about sex predator Harvey Weinstein:<\/p>\n

Mocking neoliberalism is a vicious, unsporting pastime, like bear baiting or fishing with dynamite. This is not because our woke capitalist elites and their echo chambers in the media don\u2019t deserve ridicule, but because they invite it so heedlessly.<\/p>\n

A case in point is the routine breathless enthusiasm with which corporations and their leaders are praised for making vaguely woke gestures. My favorite example is\u00a0BuzzFeed<\/em>\u2018s immortal classic,\u00a0\u201c46 beautiful rainbow brand logos celebrating marriage equality.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0But soberer voices are just as guilty. It is equally ridiculous for\u00a0The New York Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0to single out the chief executives of Walmart, JPMorgan Chase, PepsiCo, and Apple for praise. We should not be looking to corporate America for moral instruction or making exemplars of its leaders or heaping approbation upon their bland, cynical consultant-designed utterances.<\/p>\n

Talk, after all, is cheap, and the gap between what MBA-educated CEOs say and what the vast enterprises under their command actually do is yawningly wide. Walmart, a monstrous parasite of a corporation that ruthlessly destroys competitors, pays starvation wages to its employees, and thinks nothing of leaving a community bloodless and broken at the whims of computer algorithms, has settled numerous lawsuits related to racial discrimination in recent years. But, hey, the CEO just called for \u201chealing\u201d in Charlottesville.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe equal treatment of all people is one of our nation\u2019s bedrock principles,\u201d says Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase. Nice. His company, one of the most reckless contributors to the crash of 2008, just paid out\u00a0$55 million<\/a>\u00a0following an investigation that alleged the bank had systematically discriminated against thousands of Hispanic and African-American mortgage holders by charging higher interest rates.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Likewise Apple\u2019s Tim Cook tells us that he is against racism. I believe it. Good on him. Cook also just received a $90 million bonus on top of his salary and other perks for his role in the development of the iPhone 8, a luxury product. He is the CEO of a corporation that has made profits on a scale hitherto unimaginable in human history by exploiting cheap labor in a poor country ruled by tyrants whose authority is perpetuated in no small part thanks to Apple\u2019s own compliance in its silencing of dissent and hiring the smartest lawyers in the world to make their tax burden negligible. Want to help black people in America, Mr. Cook? Consider opening a factory in Flint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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