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Copyright Gated IP Empires"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EIn 1998, Congress passed the Mickey Mouse Protection Act. In a classic case of bipartisan corruption, the bill brought together Republicans, along with Barney Frank and John Conyers, to do a special favor for Disney and for other entertainment industry companies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhwuQskvq9iI2Wtblt3PE6BiMw8idCl5DroIWv2I0M8QGe5ik0gySr_WLpUjJSNu3UixUnuFu7Ef3MTYph3xAIvzlQ96uJurgKLJXVQPZitmjc-ED0uWdYHdCBUGNADxdF7xvU_u0AOtH0OJlnPRVGTJ6LzK-3OcCfeosMyba3NzzY2oKuQ3Kw\/s806\/emmys2.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"462\" data-original-width=\"806\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhwuQskvq9iI2Wtblt3PE6BiMw8idCl5DroIWv2I0M8QGe5ik0gySr_WLpUjJSNu3UixUnuFu7Ef3MTYph3xAIvzlQ96uJurgKLJXVQPZitmjc-ED0uWdYHdCBUGNADxdF7xvU_u0AOtH0OJlnPRVGTJ6LzK-3OcCfeosMyba3NzzY2oKuQ3Kw\/s320\/emmys2.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe Mickey Mouse Act (formally the Copyright Term Extension Act) was one of a series of measures that took the original copyright system, meant to protect an author's rights, and instead turned it into a permanent monopoly cash cow for Hollywood studios.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMickey Mouse, a character created in the 20s, will only become public domain in 2024.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is if Republicans don’t once again decide to do a special favor for Disney, Warner Bros, and a number of other massively woke and wealthy entertainment industry monsters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn response to Disney's support for pushing sexual indoctrination on kindergarteners, Rep. Jim Banks has sent a letter warning that \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/exclusive-republicans-threaten-to-let-disneys-mickey-mouse-copyright-lapse-over-radical-political-activism\/\"\u003Ethe free ride was over\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“It’s hard to believe that anyone would have considered extending the already lengthy term, but there’s no way they will get the ear of any Republicans after their radical political activism. America’s strong copyright protections helped make America great — they gave our creators and distributors the right incentives to produce content that shows the world the importance of freedom. But Congress should not add to Disney’s 90+ years of federal copyright protection to incentivize its new far left agenda,” Rep. Jim Jordan said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney had spent around\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/priceonomics.com\/how-mickey-mouse-evades-the-public-domain\/#:~:text=By%20the%20mid%2D1990s%2C%20Disney,and%20Donald%20Duck%20in%202009.\"\u003E $150,000\u003C\/a\u003E on members of Congress considering the bill in the 90s. The company these days allegedly spends millions on various direct and indirect lobbying efforts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Congress does nothing, Mickey's copyright will expire in 2024, followed by Pluto in 2026, Goofy in 2028, and Donald Duck in 2029. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves will lapse in 2032, followed by classic Disney movies like Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi and Cinderella.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeyond Disney, Superman’s copyright ends in 2033, Batman’s copyright in 2034, and Wonder Woman in 2036. In another blow to Warners, Bugs Bunny goes public domain in 2035.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the copyrights apply to specific works, like Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie or the first Superman comic, it would open up opportunities for independent creators and companies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIncluding conservatives and traditionalists who want to recreate American culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDisney and Warners, among others, would stand to lose billions in profits from these characters. They’ll fight for another copyright extension if they can, and if they can’t, will try to sneak in poison pills that will keep anyone else from being able to use them while bribing politicians left and right. Literally. Conservatives haven’t cared about this in the past. Now they should.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOpposing copyright extension is about more than just punishing Disney for wokeness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECompanies like Disney and Warners have built massive war chests of intellectual property that their current management and even ownership had nothing to do with creating while robbing the original creators, on whose behalf copyright laws and extensions were passed, of the profits.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, Disney's Marvel filed five lawsuits to block the families of Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, and other creators of classic characters like Spiderman, Iron Man, Thor, and many others, from reclaiming copyright. This is the latest episode in a series of legal battles over comic rights (Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were originally paid $130 for the rights) and with the artists, creators, and animators who made the entire comic book industry possible.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEntertainment industry wokeness is built in large part on taking classic characters and “renewing” them by pushing them to be more politically radical, racially recasting them, or killing the characters off entirely and replacing them to prepare for the end of their copyrights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHollywood, increasingly incapable of producing popular original stories, is farming properties that are almost a century old to wring the last shreds of profits from them. The industry and our culture would look very different if it didn’t consist of a few companies milking a few characters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFreeing classic characters into the public domain could enable the rise of an alternative more traditional entertainment industry. And one that might better reflect the values of their creators.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWalt Disney was a Republican. J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit’s copyright lapses in 2033) was a deeply religious conservative traditionalist. Steve Ditko, the co-creator of Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, was an Objectivist. Superman’s creators were Zionists. Many of them would be disgusted by the woke ways in which their work is being twisted by the companies that control them. Few of them would be employable by any of those companies today. Indeed even some living creators, like J.K. Rowling, are being canceled by the companies cashing in on their work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECopyright laws made it possible for creators to earn a living as full-time writers and artists, but the modern Grub Street exploited copyright by giving creators pennies and then using lobbyists to build copyright empires while making it all but impossible for new creators to get started.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Mickey Mouse Protection Act already extended copyright beyond any possible lifetime of a creator. Heirs have had to spend years or decades in court battling for any of the profits. There’s no possible moral argument for yet another copyright extension and compelling arguments for preventing Disney, Warners, and other woke corps from permanently exploiting copyright.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOur culture would be better off taking apart Hollywood copyright empires, built on the work of exploited and cheated writers and artists, and making it accessible to everyone. The results couldn’t be any worse than Disney execs boasting of “queering” content meant for children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECulture is meant to be a common heritage, not a permanent corporate asset.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGone With the Wind’s copyright expires in 2031. That means people will finally be able to watch it without HBO Max forcing them to sit through a speech on how they’re a bunch of racists. They’ll however have to wait until 2039 for Song of the South to escape from Disney’s vault.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIs there an argument for keeping either one locked up for decades in the thrall of companies like Disney and Warners that despise them and have nothing but contempt for their audiences?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESetting Mickey Mouse free does more than just punish Disney or rebuke Hollywood’s corrupt business model which only exists because enough politicians in California and Washington D.C. have been bribed to make it possible, it frees people to engage with their culture. The entertainment industry is building a world of culture renters who don’t actually own the digital books, songs, comics, shows, games, and other items that they’ve bought online.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe best defense against copyright plantations is liberation. Once the creators and partners have passed on and a work is culturally significant, it should belong to the culture, not to a corporation. We don’t live in a world in which Beethoven’s Fifth is wholly owned by Amazon, all the rights to Shakespeare’s works by Netflix, or the Mona Lisa by Disney.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it’s a good thing too.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBoth our society and the free market are best served by allowing those works to enrich new creations, instead of being locked up in the Disney vault to be perverted more and more.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd Disney, Warners, and other companies, no longer sitting on a monopolistic culture hoard, would actually have to create new things and engage with more than just their own woke set.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat would be good for them, for us, and for the culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERepublicans are waking up and warning that Disney won’t get any more free rides. Neither should the rest of the entertainment industry. Americans need a vital, diverse, and active culture market, not one in which a handful of woke titans force their political dogmas on the country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBreaking up their copyright monopoly would free Mickey Mouse and free our culture.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8512490010596869444\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/beating-woke-hollywood-means-taking.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8512490010596869444"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8512490010596869444"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/beating-woke-hollywood-means-taking.html","title":"Beating Woke Hollywood Means Taking Away Their Copyright Gated IP Empires"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhwuQskvq9iI2Wtblt3PE6BiMw8idCl5DroIWv2I0M8QGe5ik0gySr_WLpUjJSNu3UixUnuFu7Ef3MTYph3xAIvzlQ96uJurgKLJXVQPZitmjc-ED0uWdYHdCBUGNADxdF7xvU_u0AOtH0OJlnPRVGTJ6LzK-3OcCfeosMyba3NzzY2oKuQ3Kw\/s72-c\/emmys2.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1484149733701977450"},"published":{"$t":"2022-02-24T05:20:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-02-24T05:20:50.929-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Corporate America"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"CEO of World's Largest Publisher Funds Campaign to Force Critical Race Theory Into Schools"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EBehind Ibram X. Kendi's racist tract, How to Be an Antiracist, is a German publishing giant with a Nazi past. Kendi’s books have been published by Penguin Random House, which after a merger overseen by Bertelsmann executive Markus Dohle, and despite antitrust challenges from the Justice Department, became the world's largest publisher under CEO Dohle.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEj-tSZVHYSfhTcb-B7-KUyguVBceRAt-8ROqaTH43bPW4OhHFOB3H-6-2eOxpfvaVtAe0W20T9CQQQu7fMnAXBuY6tH2FAnGUirhIRzjo6OfkdwuOHNpjYo7owB2Ud7LnFHk_SPHNkDbdurblui8gHybLLWlIKgD12I8we4uSJSvhVERTDMRVc=s783\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"545\" data-original-width=\"783\" height=\"223\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEj-tSZVHYSfhTcb-B7-KUyguVBceRAt-8ROqaTH43bPW4OhHFOB3H-6-2eOxpfvaVtAe0W20T9CQQQu7fMnAXBuY6tH2FAnGUirhIRzjo6OfkdwuOHNpjYo7owB2Ud7LnFHk_SPHNkDbdurblui8gHybLLWlIKgD12I8we4uSJSvhVERTDMRVc=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EBertelsmann, the German mega-publisher, whose owner had donated to the SS, which, employed Jewish slave labor, and long before Kendi, was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cms.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/07\/jewish-federations-are-promoting-farrakhan-fan-who-daniel-greenfield\"\u003Einfamous\u003C\/a\u003E for racist tracts such as The Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth, is heavily invested in pushing racism on Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd schools are a lucrative market for inflicting critical race theory on American students.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow Dohle, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/16\/books\/book-bans-markus-dohle-donation-pen-america.html\"\u003Ein a \u003C\/a\u003ENew York Times story that suspiciously reads like a press release, has announced that he’s donating $500,000 to PEN to create the “Dohle Book Defense Fund”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe fund by the wealthy German CEO appears to be meant to fight efforts by states, schools, and parents to keep racist hate out of the classroom like the kind purveyed by Bertelsmann which went from the The Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth to How to Be an Antiracist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New York Times connects efforts by parents \"demanding the removal of certain books from schools\" and local legislators working to keep \"gender identity\", \"pornographic material\" and \"critical race theory\" out of the classrooms to Dohle growing up in Germany after WW2.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDohle claims to be aware of “the dark times and the dark history of the country\" in his native Germany, as if parents fighting to keep racist books out of classrooms makes them Nazis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EParents already struggling with the disproportionate power of the Biden White House, which attempted to treat them as terrorists, and the smears of the media, will now also have to contend with the world's largest publisher coming after them in order to protect its profit margins.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDohle’s move however casts light on the role of Penguin Random House and the former Nazi megapublisher behind it in the war over critical race theory in America. None of the media stories about the Dohle Book Defense Fund bother to mention Kendi or the financial stake that the former Nazi book publisher has in forcing American schools to keep buying its racist hate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPenguin Random House has aggressively marketed Ibram X. Kendi’s brand of hate to adults and even to children with the widely mocked Antiracist Baby, a board book for babies, and Goodnight Racism, which does for Goodnight Moon what Farrakhan did for bow ties.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(There’s even a card game: The Antiracist Deck. Whatever card you pick, you lose.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPenguin Random House's education arm however also pushes Kendi's How To Be an Antiracist to high school students grades 9 to 12. Kendi's Be Antiracist is targeted at grades 6-12.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's not just Kendi.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERobin DiAngelo's racist White Fragility is being distributed by Penguin Random House which promotes it for grades 6 to 12. Her latest, Nice White People, is designated for grades 9 to 12.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETa-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me is promoted for grades 9 to 12. There's also the latest Coates book being adapted for young adults, The Beautiful Struggle (likely to be translated as Der Schone Kampf in German if Bertelsmann ever gets around to it.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter all, Bertelsmann had only agreed to stop selling Mein Kampf in 1999.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s no coincidence that three of the most infamous racialist authors who, more than anyone, have helped mainstream racism, and have become the public face of the ideas inherent in critical race theory, are on the list of one single publisher. Or that the publisher’s CEO is now going to war against parents trying to keep Bertelsmann’s brand of racism out of their schools.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPreviously few conservatives were willing to connect the dots to Penguin Random House.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Markus Dohle’s declaration of war on American parents and conservatives may change that. The Dohle Book Defense Fund is not defending books, it’s defending the cash that Dohle’s company makes from hooking American kids on hate. PEN, which has failed to advocate for conservative writers being canceled left and right, is thrilled to act as a front for the financial interests of one of the megapublishers destroying the industry. It probably helps that Dohle sits on PEN’s Board of Trustees and has served as the Board’s executive vice-president.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(If you wonder why PEN won’t actually protect writers, read that last sentence one more time.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerican publishing has been carved up by foreign interests like Germany’s Bertelsmann and France’s Lagardère Group (\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/09\/rich-white-leftists-are-encouraging-black-people-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Epublishers\u003C\/a\u003E of In Defense of Looting) which have not only destroyed longtime American publishing firms like Random House and Little, Brown, and Company, but turned them into machines feeding hate, violence, and the breakdown of American society.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the media’s press releases, Dohle neglected to mention his company’s financial interests, and instead claimed that he decided to invest at least $500,000 into fighting American parents because of “the future of our democracy.” Nothing says “democracy” like a German CEO using the world’s largest publisher and rivers of cash to bully American parents into backing down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut as Dohle and Bertelsmann go to war to protect their racist business model, they may experience more of that “democracy” than they expect. It took a long time to wake up conservatives to the dangerous threat of monopolistic Big Tech companies. Dohle and Bertelsmann may be about to wake the same sleeping giant as Bezos and Zuckerberg.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPenguin Random House under Dohle signed a $65 million deal with the Obamas, and a $20 million deal with Prince Harry. Cuomo’s shady $5 million book deal came through Crown: an imprint of Penguin Random House. Hillary’s book deals came through Simon \u0026amp; Schuster which is set to be swallowed up by Bertelsmann extinguishing one of the last large U.S. publishers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Justice Department is fighting to block this latest Bertelsmann cannibalization of America’s publishing industry, but considering how many politicians have made millions from book deals through the German giant, the odds may not be on the side of justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you follow the big book deals of politicians and the big racist book deals, they tend to lead to the same German company which is destroying our society and our culture for its profit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDohle and Bertelsmann could have been satisfied wielding their power from behind the scenes. Now they have declared war on American conservatives and parents, and that will raise questions about whether not only Kendi, Coates or DiAngelo’s racist tracts belong in our schools, but whether any Bertelsmann and Penguin Random House books do.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/1484149733701977450\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/ceo-of-worlds-largest-publisher-funds.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1484149733701977450"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1484149733701977450"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/02\/ceo-of-worlds-largest-publisher-funds.html","title":"CEO of World's Largest Publisher Funds Campaign to Force Critical Race Theory Into Schools"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEj-tSZVHYSfhTcb-B7-KUyguVBceRAt-8ROqaTH43bPW4OhHFOB3H-6-2eOxpfvaVtAe0W20T9CQQQu7fMnAXBuY6tH2FAnGUirhIRzjo6OfkdwuOHNpjYo7owB2Ud7LnFHk_SPHNkDbdurblui8gHybLLWlIKgD12I8we4uSJSvhVERTDMRVc=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5728633898056770043"},"published":{"$t":"2021-10-27T03:02:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-10-27T03:02:25.722-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Corporate America"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Corporate Safe Spaces: How Racial Affinity Groups Radicalize Companies"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Workplace chat software like Slack is probably the single most effective tool for making companies go woke. Organizing workers was a difficult challenge in companies that did not have unions. But while companies closely monitored union organizing, they actively encouraged the use of workplace chat software that made it all too easy for leftists to network, identify opponents, get them fired, and use those incidents to radicalize the company.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe second most effective tool is the identity politics affinity group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5g1YPgxry84\/YXj5dycFGFI\/AAAAAAAATi4\/gjaC5yfxnAsdf0LWe4znyE-mzMkvbgx2wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1608\/1984.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"905\" data-original-width=\"1608\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5g1YPgxry84\/YXj5dycFGFI\/AAAAAAAATi4\/gjaC5yfxnAsdf0LWe4znyE-mzMkvbgx2wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/1984.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAffinity groups or ERGs have become a popular tool by HR departments to organize internal woke caucuses. Corporate affinity groups are a counterpart of campus student groups and were promoted as a way to enable the same kind of experience in the workplace. Identity politics student groups, usually dominated by students and faculty from identity politics studies departments, were the biggest players in campus radicalization and protests. Affinity groups replicated black, Latino, and gay student groups in corporations with executives as their faculty sponsors. The executives were often picked based on their own student activist backgrounds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring the campus wars, some conservatives had dismissed the student protests as an unreal university bubble. “Just wait until they get into the real world and have to find jobs,” they said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut campus radicalism had always been meant as a training ground for institutional radicalization. The student activists were being taught how to take over government agencies, companies, and any organization they become part of using internal networking and political pressure. The students didn’t change to accommodate the workplace, instead workplaces changed to accommodate them, making the activist culture a part of corporate culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same system that had ousted conservative faculty, intimidated conservative speakers, and transformed courses had been copied and pasted into the corporate workplace. On college campuses, students were the customers, but workplace affinity group members were employees. Except that corporations began treating the affinity groups as stakeholders who became more important than the actual customers. Affinity groups applied internal pressure that ousted conservative employees and dropped conservative customers and businesses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuch as student groups had advocated defunding investments in oil companies or Israel on college campuses, affinity groups pressured banks to drop firearms manufacturers and Republicans. Companies that refused faced internal revolts, staged resignations, and pressure on key investors and shareholders that would claim the jobs of CEOs and principled leaders.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe conquest of corporations was swift and effective because it utilized existing leftist revolutionary organizational principles that exploited new technologies while their victims, often liberal and conservative, failed to understand that the discontent, the demands, and the new entities and language invading the workplace were not some odd millennial trend, but part of a plan. Even now the backlash against wokeness has hardly come to terms with the infrastructure behind it, touching mainly on the stories of individuals who were purged for political offenses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat the testimony of the victims neglects is an understanding of the machinery of the purges.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe affinity groups were not truly new, but their spread and pervasiveness has been breathtaking. Black, Latino, gay, and other identity politics affinity groups not only exist in most corporations but, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org\/collections\/pamplets\/products\/disloyal\"\u003Eas revealed in \u003C\/a\u003Ethe Freedom Center’s recent booklet, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org\/collections\/pamplets\/products\/disloyal\"\u003EDisloyal\u003C\/a\u003E, in the military. They’ve become ubiquitous in the non-profit sector and across all levels of the government.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOfficially, racial and sexual affinity groups are meant to make minorities more comfortable in the workplace, provide mentoring, and the favorable treatment that enables “diversity”. In practice affinity groups are widely used to advocate for political issues in the same way as minority leaders. Essentially, affinity groups embedded a Sharpton in every company and institution.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAffinity groups claim that they are structurally disadvantaged and that certain corporate moves make them feel “unsafe” or “threatened”. A key affinity group tactic is pressuring executives to state that the company suffers from “systemic racism” and that minorities are at risk. This is the familiar campus safe space ethos transplanted to some of the biggest Fortune 500 companies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnce the affinity groups have established the need for corporate safe spaces, they begin pressuring companies to impose political tests on all employees and fire those who disagree. Affinity groups begin by establishing their oppressed credentials before pivoting to become the oppressors. Once executives begin surrendering to them, they’ve established that the company is a dangerous environment for an identity politics group and the leadership “needs to do better.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile affinity groups typically tend to claim that they represent black, female, or gay employees, they’re just another embedded leftist front group which silences or suppresses those employees who are there for mentorship or work instead of politics. Where unions at least had democratic vestiges, affinity groups have little to none. Like the NAACP, the HRC, or any number of advocacy groups that claim to represent the voices of a group, which has no way of ratifying or removing their representation, affinity groups claim to represent a people as a political group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd since affinity groups typically have the support of HR and executives, few employees are willing to dissent or speak out against them. Fortune 500 companies now routinely pressure their employees to join affinity groups, including pushing white employees into “white allies” groups for maximum political indoctrination in the workplace. This setup, not at all coincidentally, resembles the old “soviets” which the Bolsheviks began to use as their political power base.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EModern wokes are using the same basic methodology as 19th century revolutionaries but with the added benefit of the internet and smart devices to provide them with far superior coordination. The underlying objective though remains the familiar process of horizontal consolidation of power within an organization, a group of organizations, and then an entire industry, and vertical consolidation across different organizations and industries.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHorizontal consolidation is how leftists took over specific university departments, entire fields of study, academic organizations, and then entire universities, and much of academia. The same process was also used to consolidate the field of education, and is being replicated everywhere from Big Tech to medicine. And, as discussed in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org\/collections\/pamplets\/products\/disloyal\"\u003EDisloyal\u003C\/a\u003E: the United States military.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVertical consolidation might use the media, medical experts, and government officials to advance a particular program, or academia, Wall Street, and the clergy for another.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe basis for the mass censorship of conservatives was coordinated between the Justice Department, the media, and Big Tech. Such improbable alliances only seem unlikely until you understand that vertical consolidation transforms culturally incompatible organizations and industries into the components of a single machine whose true mission is that of the Left.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELeftists create cells within each organization. The members of those cells see themselves as members of the “resistance”, the term they embraced during the Trump administration, “working within the system” to achieve a total takeover of society. The old dream, the one advanced by Communist organizations, got a shot in the arm from the new possibilities for organizing and coordinating operatives. Before the internet, communications were a problem requiring in-person meetings, magazines and newsletters, but the rise of the internet, and then social media, and finally workplace chat enabled this brave new world and its social credit system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe affinity groups merge traditional identity politics organizing with corporate workplaces. The Left has abandoned its old working class politics to focus on the upper middle class and it has accompanied its new base through student identity politics to their workplaces. The stereotypes of dysfunctional millennials unable to cope with adulthood led corporations to create frictionless workplaces that made the transition from college to corporate life as smooth as possible.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s also no coincidence that Big Tech, the arena where the top talent was guided into corporate campuses meant to replicate their old college campuses, is also the epicenter of safe spaces, radical politics, and affinity groups. The college dropouts who built Silicon Valley aimed to extend the college experience to the workplace with a casual atmosphere, free food, and all-night working hours. It’s no wonder Big Tech became the first corporate casualty of the Left.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut not the last. Corporate America, eager to jump on a new trend, is succumbing to the virus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConservatives were behind the curve on campus organizing. They’ve made up a great deal of ground on college campuses even as the generation that was organized is taking over the corporate workplace. And conservatives are once again behind on organizing the opposition.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaking matters more difficult is the insistence that identity politics affinity groups are apolitical, that their messages, whether Black Lives Matter or Trans Inclusion, are “above politics”, and that implementing these groups is Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion which many organizations, from Kellogg’s cereal to the United States Space Force, have defined as central to their mission.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd so it will take a good deal more to crack workplace organizing than calls for equal time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWorkplace civil rights is about more than the right of employees to be free of political tests and indoctrination, it’s about more than denying the Left a space to organize and recruit. These initial considerations have to give way to the realization that an organization hijacked by the Left will horizontally and vertically consolidate to conquer organizations, industries, and the country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA company will funnel money to leftist causes and deny services to conservatives. It will coordinate with other companies and create industry-wide standards that act as cartels. That means firearms manufacturers and gun stores will be denied loans and payment options, conservative candidates will be prevented from being heard on social media and accepting donations. Vocal conservatives won’t be able to buy or sell, have a bank account or a credit card, not to mention a job, or access any services that are mediated by major corporations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe variety of companies that appear to be making independent decisions to deplatform, fire, and break ties with conservatives are actually acting as one nationwide woke cartel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s not an alarmist prediction, but a growing everyday reality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECorporations have adopted critical race theory, anti-racism, equity, and inclusion which, despite its name, insists that it is not enough to include if you do not also exclude. Exclusion, from the marketplace of ideas, from public and private spaces, from employment and finally life, has been equated to safety for the “oppressed” who cannot be safe without the power to oppress.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is how the social credit system comes to America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt took conservatives a while to embrace student free speech rights. The shift came with the delayed realization that campuses were no longer in a struggle between moderate administrations and student radicals, but radical administrations and student conservatives. Making that same shift with woke corporations purging conservative employees and customers may be a more painful process. And yet it is an absolutely necessary existential matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConservatives could survive woke academia, but not a woke economy.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5728633898056770043\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/corporate-safe-spaces-how-racial.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5728633898056770043"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5728633898056770043"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/corporate-safe-spaces-how-racial.html","title":"Corporate Safe Spaces: How Racial Affinity Groups Radicalize Companies"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5g1YPgxry84\/YXj5dycFGFI\/AAAAAAAATi4\/gjaC5yfxnAsdf0LWe4znyE-mzMkvbgx2wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/1984.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4474918025939952609"},"published":{"$t":"2021-10-21T04:22:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-10-21T04:22:08.850-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Corporate America"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Kellogg’s Goes Woke While Its Workers Go Broke"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In the late 19th century, John Harvey Kellogg, a eugenicist and celibate vegetarian, became the leading health food nut of the era and along the way accidentally invented corn flakes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZUFk_A1FEHI\/YWXT6i1pj6I\/AAAAAAAAThU\/SNiHOzV75YstsBNy8I3687dc-2X_SG6rQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s662\/kellogs%2Bframe.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"657\" data-original-width=\"662\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZUFk_A1FEHI\/YWXT6i1pj6I\/AAAAAAAAThU\/SNiHOzV75YstsBNy8I3687dc-2X_SG6rQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/kellogs%2Bframe.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EBack then Kellogg’s Battle Creek Sanitarium was a spa for the rich where patients got electric baths and enemas (the subject of a scathing parody in the book and movie, The Road to Wellville). These days, Battle Creek, Michigan is in much worse shape and Kellogg’s is the area’s biggest employer. But the corporation, like most of its multinational woke ilk, spends most of its time virtue signaling social justice while outsourcing American jobs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe W.K. Kellogg Foundation, another of the multitude of hijacked radical foundations, is the biggest shareholder of Kellogg's through the Kellogg's Foundation Trust. The left-wing activist foundation had originally been founded as the W. K. Kellogg Child Welfare Foundation by John's brother who idealistically but foolishly told his board, \"Use the money as you please, so long as it promotes the health, happiness, and welfare of children.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn example of the Kellogg Foundation's promotion of the happiness of children \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wkkf.org\/resource-directory\/resources\/2016\/12\/truth--racial-healing---transformation-implementation-guidebook\"\u003Eis its \u003C\/a\u003ETruth, Racial Healing \u0026amp; Transformation Implementation Guidebook which claims that \"emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology\" is racist, and saying, “People are people. We are all alike regardless of the color of our skin,” is even more horrifyingly racist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA century after John Kellogg’s involvement with the Race Betterment Foundation which called for a registry deciding who should be sterilized in order to improve the “race”, an idea later embraced by the Nazis, Kellogg’s is hopelessly racist. The only difference is that it traded eugenic racism against black people for social justice racism against white people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKellogg’s cereal pushes Ibram X. Kendi’s Antiracist Baby board book on parents to teach that even white babies are evil racists. “We know that by two years old children are already consuming racist ideas,” Ibram X. Kendi declared. That wasn’t true until he got started.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith some help from Kellogg’s.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut while Kellogg’s was working hard to promote the ”health, happiness, and welfare of children” by feeding them sugary cereals and teaching them that white people are evil, it was also busy wrecking the economy of Battle Creek, Michigan to make a little more money.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt didn’t count though because much of the Kellogg’s Battle Creek workforce is white.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnder CEO Carlos Gutierrez, later Bush's Commerce Secretary, much of the operation was shut down and moved to Mexico. After that Battle Creek's unemployment rate went \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/crainsdetroit\/docs\/cdb_20160411\"\u003Efrom\u003C\/a\u003E 3.9% to 7.5%.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"He knows exactly what it takes to make American businesses grow and create jobs,\" Bush said of Gutierrez.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhich was true. Just in Mexico.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince then, Gutierrez became Romney's Hispanic chairman, and endorsed Hillary and Biden, but not until he created Republicans for Immigration Reform after turning on Mitt Romney for not being sufficiently supportive of replacing Americans. \"I think we lost the election because the far right of this party has taken the party to a place that it doesn't belong,\" he huffed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaybe some Republicans opposed to endless immigration used to have jobs in Battle Creek.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe workers who do still have jobs in Battle Creek are on strike. 1,400 workers are now walking the picket line after Kellogg's announced that it would \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/fighting-future-kelloggs-workers-strike-142744416.html\"\u003Ecut 212 jobs\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe local union president, a fourth-generation worker, said that they were tired of Kellogg's moving jobs to Mexico.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We work seven days a week, that’s what we do. In exchange for that, we live the American dream. At the end of the day, that’s what they want to take from all of us.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKellogg’s prefers the Kendi dream of getting rich by accusing Americans of racism while screwing the American working class. And it’s not just the American workers who get the shaft from the woke virtue signalers in the C-suite. A few years ago, Kellogg's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/windsor\/last-box-of-kellogg-s-cereal-from-london-ont-plant-opened-in-timmins-1.2979897\"\u003Emoved \u003C\/a\u003Eits cereal plant from Ontario to China. And it closed its Australian plant and shifted \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.foodanddrinkbusiness.com.au\/news\/kellogg-s-project-k-hits-home\"\u003Eover to \u003C\/a\u003EThailand.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Kellogg's isn't firing its American workers and trading them for foreign workers who will work for a fraction of the cost, it's terrorizing its workforce with Equity, Diversity \u0026amp; Inclusion. While Kellogg's won't pay its workers fairly, it has hired a roster of diversity executives who make 4 times their salary to tell them how racist they are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECEO Steve Cahillane responded to the drug overdose death of George Floyd and the subsequent devastating riots by the Black Lives Matter racist hate group by falsely claiming that there were \"racial injustices\" and declaring that \"in North America, we cannot reinforce strongly enough our commitment to a diverse and inclusive environment\". In North America, maybe not as much in actual racist countries where Kellogg's offers fewer “race conscious” classes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 360 degree turn from the Race Betterment Foundation to the Kellogg’s Race Conscious learning series shows that horseshoe theory also applies to woke cereal companies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Kellogg recognized, along with the rest of the country and world, that we had entered a point of no return in terms of social justice,” a quote in Kellogg’s Equity newsletter screams. “What if we created a dialogue about the intersectionality of race and food?”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr what if Kellogg’s stopped firing workers while telling them they’re racist?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Kellogg’s touts the “Fight for Food Justice”, it treats its food workers like garbage. C-suite woke virtue signaling can cover up a multitude of sins. That’s why it’s taken over corporations. Instead of actually practicing ethics and decency, major corporations now hire diversity executives to assemble social justice word salads that make Corporate America sound like Che.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe more jobs Kellogg’s cuts at its Battle Creek birthplace, the more it talks about equity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKellogg’s boasts that it’s a Top 50 Company for Diversity and that diversity and equity are “paramount to achieving our success”, but the real secret sauce is cheap foreign labor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn Amnesty International report \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/nestle-and-kellogg-profit-from-appalling-child-labour-abuse-in-indonesian-palm-oil-plantation\"\u003Eaccused Kellogg's\u003C\/a\u003E and a variety of woke food multinationals, including Unilever, the parent company of antisemitic BDS advocate Ben and Jerry's, of getting palm oil from plantations where 8-year-olds worked under hazardous conditions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the C-suite virtue signals about social justice, children are dropping out of school to labor on plantations, women are working for $2.50 a day, and breathing in toxic pesticides.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I don’t go to school,” a 10-year-old boy working on a plantation \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2016\/11\/palm-oil-global-brands-profiting-from-child-and-forced-labour\/\"\u003Esaid\u003C\/a\u003E. “I carry the sack with the loose fruit by myself but can only carry it half full. It is difficult to carry it, it is heavy. I do it in the rain as well but it is difficult…My hands hurt and my body aches.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo one actually likes to see how the woke sausage or the cereal gets made.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery are among the many names burned into our consciousness,\" Kellogg's CEO Steve Cahillane declared.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaybe the name of that 10-year-old boy or the fired Kellogg’s workers should be burned into his consciousness instead. But accusing America and white people of racism is cheap, running an ethical company is expensive. Just stop by Battle Creek or a woke palm oil plantation and find out how many children had to suffer and how many American workers had to lose their future so that Tony the Tiger could rot children’s teeth with sugar and their souls with racist wokeness.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4474918025939952609\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/kelloggs-goes-woke-while-its-workers-go.html#comment-form","title":"12 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4474918025939952609"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4474918025939952609"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/kelloggs-goes-woke-while-its-workers-go.html","title":"Kellogg’s Goes Woke While Its Workers Go Broke"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZUFk_A1FEHI\/YWXT6i1pj6I\/AAAAAAAAThU\/SNiHOzV75YstsBNy8I3687dc-2X_SG6rQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/kellogs%2Bframe.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"12"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7378100128632921970"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-03T23:29:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-03T23:29:33.597-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Big Tech"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Corporate America"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Big Tech's 'No Free Speech' Amendment"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"A few years ago the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) was demanding government regulations that would force internet providers to carry the content of members like Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Now it's suing Florida to fight regulations that would force some of those same members to carry the content of ordinary Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENet Neutrality, or forcing cable and DSL companies to carry all content without picking and choosing, \"helps preserve free speech, access to information — and democracy,\" former CCIA boss Ed Black argued two years ago.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-v3yFqdLWdmQ\/YLmeE6omonI\/AAAAAAAATSI\/iJPD7u2MghUZ5JZ7q1KpFH3tRbKhC53sgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s685\/google%2Bevil.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"355\" data-original-width=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-v3yFqdLWdmQ\/YLmeE6omonI\/AAAAAAAATSI\/iJPD7u2MghUZ5JZ7q1KpFH3tRbKhC53sgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/google%2Bevil.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EBut when Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law barring Big Tech monopolies from deplatforming candidates for public office and journalists, and forcing Big Tech to adopt clear and consistent standards for how they treat users, including deplatforming, as is the norm in every other industry, the CCIA went to war against free speech, access to information -- and democracy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernor DeSantis says that Big Tech is suppressing free speech. Big Tech argues that DeSantis is taking away its free speech which it defines as censoring people’s speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We are bringing this suit to safeguard the industry’s free speech,\" current CCIA boss Matt Schruers claimed. “A digital service that declines to host harmful content is exercising its own First Amendment rights.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDoes Facebook have free speech? And can speech consist of denying service to conservatives? Should Mark Zuckerberg’s speech nullify the speech of millions of Americans?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1948, the first program ran on a computer. It was also the year that George Orwell finished 1984 with its infamous slogan, “Freedom is Slavery” and “Slavery is Freedom.” Big Tech’s version of it is, “Free Speech is Censorship” and “Censorship is Free Speech.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Big Tech censors millions of Americans, it’s engaging in free speech. And when those Americans rise up and fight back against their illegal monopolies, that’s censorship.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Big Tech already dismantled all the arguments it’s putting forward with Net Neutrality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf a digital service picking and choosing its content is a First Amendment right, then why don’t cable companies have the same right to bar access to the harmful content on Twitter?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA trade association whose members include Twitter and Facebook insists they have a right to ban the President of the United States and any conservatives because that’s free speech, but that AT\u0026amp;T or Comcast don’t have the right to ban access to Twitter because of free speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf censorship is also free speech then that cuts both ways. Otherwise it’s free speech for me, but not for thee, which is exactly the argument that Big Tech’s lobbies and front groups are making.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter want to force internet service providers to have no choice about carrying them, but they want to pick and choose whose speech they carry. And yet Google, Amazon, and Facebook have much broader monopolistic powers than internet service providers. The cable provider market has too little choice, but it’s incredibly diverse compared to an e-ecosystem with Google, whose search engine controls 80% of the market, Facebook, which controls 80% of the social media market, and Amazon’s massive ebook dominance.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf any aspect of the ‘net’ needs more neutrality, it’s the platforms, not the providers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Comcast’s control of 40% of the broadband market gives it so much power that it can’t be allowed to pick and choose what content it carries, what about Facebook’s 80% control?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd if Comcast potentially deciding not to carry Twitter is an assault on “free speech, access to information — and democracy”, then why isn’t Twitter’s decision not to carry President Trump and other conservatives an assault on “free speech, access to information — and democracy”?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwitter, Facebook, and the rest of the Big Tech crew want to argue that denying access to platforms is an attack on free speech, but that platforms denying access to users isn’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Tech’s position is that only its monopolies have free speech and they should use that speech to deny everyone else free speech. That’s a surreal mockery of the First Amendment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Tech’s trade group is relying on the same compelled speech argument that Christian bakers have used to avoid baking a cake for a gay wedding. But there’s a multitude of bakeries, most of whom will be happy to bake a cake for anything if you pay them enough.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow many Facebooks and Googles are there?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChristian bakers and photographers argued that they’re artists and taking part in a gay wedding would compel their speech. Are Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey artists? Are Facebook and Twitter their artistic creations that would be spoiled by allowing conservative speech?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet the same media that ridiculed the idea that a Christian baker should be allowed to pick and choose which cakes he bakes is insisting that telling a social media monopoly not to censor candidates for public office is a violation of Zuckerberg and Dorsey’s free speech rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut if the speech on Facebook and Twitter is the speech of these billionaires, then they can be held accountable for it. If it’s not their speech, then free speech isn’t an issue. The CCIA is in the absurd position of arguing that speech on platforms is and isn’t really theirs speech. And that platforms express their speech by taking away the ability of others to speak.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECall it the No Free Speech version of the First Amendment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Big Tech speaks by eliminating the speech of others, then maybe we would be better off without this novel black hole theory of speech on whose basis it’s going to war against Florida.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe CCIA was advocating for the so-called “Save the Internet Act” to impose Net Neutrality. But the internet appears to be in no particular danger from the lack of Net Neutrality. Despite all the alarmism about the end of the internet and even death threats (one activist was sentenced for threatening to kill the family of Trump’s FCC Chairman Ajit Pai), little has actually changed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s not the case with Big Tech censorship which silenced millions of people from POTUS on down, influenced the outcome of a national election, and defined the national debate. Net Neutrality advocates could not point to any measurable harm caused to them, but opponents of Big Tech censorship can easily point to the harm being done to them and to the United States.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFlorida is bringing real Net Neutrality to the table. Unlike Net Neutrality, which was an effort by platforms to enlist the government and dumber lefty internet users into their war against broadband providers, real Net Neutrality begins with monopolistic platforms not providers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The internet has been historically neutral. After decades of legal battles by those who want to either make money from discrimination or look the other way, we are glad to see legislation to protect consumers’ and businesses’ access to the open internet,\" the CCIA argued a mere two years ago in defense of Net Neutrality and the “Save the Internet Act”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnfortunately the internet hasn’t been neutral. It’s dominated by a speech cartel which deploys the rhetoric of an open internet and free speech when it serves its business interests, but is fighting tooth and nail when Governor DeSantis and Florida asked Big Tech to be neutral.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConservatives looked the other way while Big Tech consolidated its control over the internet. They’ve gotten tired of looking the other way, but Big Tech is just as eager to gaslight them, to hire Republican lobbyists to argue that speech is censorship and censorship is speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe need a real Net Neutrality and a real Save the Internet Act.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe CCIA has unintentionally made some great points over the years. Americans paid for the internet, from the earliest networks down to Google. We put our economy and our political system on the internet. Now Big Tech monopolies are consuming our wealth and our freedom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans deserve an open and neutral internet. Consumers and businesses need access to an open internet, but so do elected officials, journalists, and anyone who cares about the way that our country is run and has an opinion about government, culture, and education.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Tech engaged in blatant election rigging and voter suppression in the 2020 election. And it’s marginalizing and suppressing the views of half the country from the marketplace of ideas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIts front group laughably claims that it’s suppressing half the country in the name of free speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA true net neutrality applied to the CCIA’s Big Tech bosses would \"preserve free speech, access to information — and democracy.\" Florida’s move is a good first step in the war to take back free speech on the internet and force platforms to host political speech in an open and neutral way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Tech claims that it loves free speech. Governor DeSantis and Florida are showing what real free speech looks like.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/7378100128632921970\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/big-techs-no-free-speech-amendment.html#comment-form","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7378100128632921970"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7378100128632921970"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/big-techs-no-free-speech-amendment.html","title":"Big Tech's 'No Free Speech' Amendment"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-v3yFqdLWdmQ\/YLmeE6omonI\/AAAAAAAATSI\/iJPD7u2MghUZ5JZ7q1KpFH3tRbKhC53sgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/google%2Bevil.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}}]}});