As much as conservatives in America love capitalism, many
U.S. capitalists sure seem to hate conservatives—especially Christian
conservatives. On virtually every issue important to conservatives of all
stripes, large U.S. corporations (“Big Corp” for this column) stand
opposed—almost unanimously!—to American conservatives.
In other words, to the detriment of America and the truth,
Big Corp has gone “woke.” Coca-Cola provides the most recent and egregious
example of gross corporate wokeness. According to a whistleblower, Coca-Cola is forcing its employees to complete online
training that instructs them on “What it Means to Be White” and how to “Try and
be less white.”
This racist training declares that,
To be less white is
to:
be less oppressive
be less arrogant
be less certain
be less defensive
be less ignorant
be more humble
listen
believe
break with apathy
break with white solidarity …
No doubt this garbage is directly the result of Coca-Cola
bowing to the evil efforts of the “woke” army of Black Lives Matter (BLM) and
the like. As Al Perrotta recently put it, “Of course, it’s doubtful anybody with any brains in
Coca-Cola’s leadership really believes such racist, divisive gibberish. But
they do believe the Woke Warriors won’t let them rest until they push this
poison onto their employees.”
Thanks in large part to Big Corp, as cities were looted and
burned across America in 2020, BLM raked in tens of millions of dollars. As reported last year by Jordan Davidson at The Federalist, Amazon,
Pepsi’s Gatorade, Microsoft, Warner Records, Intel, and numerous other members
of Big Corp helped to line the stuffed coffers at BLM. Of course, this will do
nothing if not embolden BLM and its allies to continue their violent,
destructive, and grifting ways. In addition, the lavish funding of BLM will
further promote their racist agenda. None of this is good for America.
Coca-Cola is far from alone when it comes to its corporate
“wokeness.” Under Armour has also recently come under fire for forcing employees to endure “anti-white diversity
training videos.” Long before “woke” and its derivatives entered our lexicon,
Big Corp had surrendered to the agenda of the modern left. Decades ago, Big
Corp quickly got on the bandwagons of the radical pro-abortion agenda, the
perverse LGBT agenda, and so on.
According to very recent polling by Echelon Insights, the top issues for republicans (yes,
not all republicans are reliably conservative, but virtually all conservatives
vote republican) that are a “problem for the country” are (in order of
importance):
·
Illegal
immigration
·
Lack of support for
the police
·
High taxes
·
Liberal bias in the
mainstream media
·
General moral decline
of the country
·
Socialism
·
Antifa violence
·
China
·
Legal abortion in the
third trimester
·
Election fraud
·
Tech company
censorship
·
Discrimination against
Christians
Other than perhaps “high taxes” (and even this means
something different to individual conservatives than it means to Big Corp)
there’s not an issue in this list that Big Corp has taken a stand on that is
favorable to conservatism. For example, “Corporate Supremacists”—as Brian
Schuster described them in 2018—“love mass immigration.” What he means is they
love illegal immigration. One reason for this is, as Schuster put it,
A steady stream of immigrants means a steady stream of
competition for jobs. Workers generate profit for multinational corporations,
and the cheaper a company’s labor costs are, the more profit is left over for
the corporate supremacists at workers’ expense.
Just after the 2020 Presidential Election, the New York
Post reported
that “Big Tech” began lobbying the incoming Biden administration to “reverse
President Trump’s stricter immigration policies.” According to the Post,
“rescinding Trump’s [immigration] actions is the industry’s top priority next
year.”
Media corporations that are part of Big Corp are the main
reason that conservatives are concerned about “liberal bias in the mainstream
media.” Because this bias helps to further the left’s agenda, other members of
Big Corp play along. In fact, in attempts to censor conservatives, many of them have sometimes engaged in advertising boycotts.
Tragically, hundreds of members of Big Corp—including
Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Best Buy, Capital One, Chevron, Citigroup, Coca-Cola,
Dell, Delta Airlines, Dominos, E-TRADE, Food Lion, General Motors, Google,
Hershey, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg, MasterCard, Mattel, Microsoft,
Netflix, Nike, PepsiCo, Sony, Starbucks, Target, Texas Instruments, Uber, and
many others—have thrown their support behind the evil—and misnamed—“Equality Act.” Thanks to democrat
control and the support of Big Corp, this abomination recently passed the U.S.
House. Perhaps more than any other collection of words in recent history, the
“Equality Act” epitomizes the “general moral decline” of America.
As many others have already noted, the evil “Equality Act”
promotes anything but “equality.” Among other disastrous consequences, if the
“Equality Act” becomes law, it would make criminals out of those who live
according to the biblical (and biological) view of who is a male and who is a
female; it would gut religious liberty and compel speech; it would ruin women’s
and girls’ sports; it would endanger women and girls; it would allow for
children to be taken from their parents, and so on. Yet Big Corp finds all of
this not only acceptable, but necessary.
Clearly these “woke” corporations have forgotten their foundations and forgotten what allows for their continued existence
and prosperity. They have forgotten—or choose to ignore—that they could only
have prospered as they have in the United States of America. Most importantly,
they have forgotten God and His law. As I point out in The Miracle and Magnificence of America, the United States is the world’s most enduring
constitutional republic and the world’s most powerful and prosperous nation—which
has produced the world’s largest and wealthiest corporations—because our Founders rightly feared God and dually
embraced the principles of Christianity and free market capitalism (as espoused
by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations).
Many liberals in America—including many now in D.C. —would’ve long ago shredded the
U.S. Constitution. The Constitution endures because it is worth conserving, and
from the beginning of this great nation, conservatives in America have long
understood that fact. If anything is worth conserving it is those things that
have been settled for all time, and more than any other governing document written by
mankind, the U.S. Constitution embraces this notion.
Again, to the great detriment of America (or any nation)
“wokeness” is a war on the truth. Like individuals, corporations embrace this
deadly ideology because they ignore God and go their own way. As has been the
case for all time, if we want this to change, we need revival and repentance in
our corporate boardrooms.
(See this column at American Thinker and The Blue State Conservative.)
Copyright 2021, Trevor Grant Thomas
At the Intersection of Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason.
www.trevorgrantthomas.com
Trevor is the author of The
Miracle and Magnificence of America
tthomas@trevorgrantthomas.com
