{"id":11674,"date":"2020-08-09T22:05:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T02:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=11674"},"modified":"2020-08-09T22:08:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T02:08:14","slug":"the-ministries-of-truth-and-love-in-corporate-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/09\/the-ministries-of-truth-and-love-in-corporate-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ministries of Truth and Love in Corporate America"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1984, George Orwell\u2019s overly optimistic vision of what the future totalitarian progressive state would be, he calls the government agency in charge of propaganda, the Ministry of Truth and the Ministry of Love was the agency whose job it was to terrorize and punish the citizens into believing that truth.\u00a0 In the real world, where things are much worse, instead of just the government, each corporation has now combined those functions into the Human Resources department.\u00a0 They provide you with the loving truth and you had better pay attention when they do.<\/p>\n

Last week on one of my posts<\/a> someone commented his reply to his employer\u2019s corporate \u201cconversation\u201d about anti-black racism in America. To say he gave them the straight dope would be an understatement.\u00a0 He gave them both barrels.\u00a0 And he did this without anonymity.\u00a0 That\u2019s amazingly brave.\u00a0 Recently Cisco had a similar townhall meeting to air opinions about the same topic and when some employees said things like \u201cAll Lives Matter Not Just Black Lives Matter\u201d they were promptly fired.\u00a0 LinkedIn had a similar meeting but allowed anonymity and after they received similar answers, they promised to never allow anonymous replies again.\u00a0 Here\u2019s MSN’s article describing these two events<\/a>.\u00a0 Being Microsoft, the article takes the view that the employees got what they deserved.<\/p>\n

Now normally I prefer not to quote people I do not respect but for once I think I\u2019ll use Barack Obama\u2019s favorite phrase.\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at this as a \u201cteachable moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do we see here?\u00a0 American corporations pretending to encourage open discussion of a divisive position on race relations that the company has taken and when the employees provide nuanced reasonable opinions that oppose the company\u2019s position, they are declared racists and fired.<\/p>\n

What should we learn from this?\u00a0 First of all, if an American company says they want your opinion, really what they are telling you is what your opinion must be.\u00a0 Namely, the same opinion as theirs.\u00a0 Period.\u00a0 In fact, what they\u2019re expecting you to do is virtue signal just how much more you believe in something than even the company does.\u00a0 If the company says it\u2019s going to donate a half percent of profits to BLM you should declare that you\u2019re going to donate a full percent or even more of your paycheck to BLM.\u00a0 If you want to keep working at the company the least you are allowed to do is just stay silent about your true opinion.\u00a0 And depending on how \u201cwoke\u201d the company is, even that may get you fired.<\/p>\n

Secondly, corporate America has knuckled under either willingly or unwillingly to the progressive agenda, lock, stock and barrel.\u00a0 Unless you happen to be a protected class, you are at best a second-class citizen and most likely someone they would rather see leave.<\/p>\n

And finally, the way this should get fixed is by a Justice Department investigation that prosecutes one of these companies for civil rights violations at a monetary level that puts the fear of God in every board room in the country.\u00a0 And the only way that happens is if the President, the DOJ and the Supreme Court are all on our side and want us to be free citizens again.\u00a0 Whether that is likely to happen sooner or later is hard to say.<\/p>\n

But I had a funny idea, call it a thought experiment.\u00a0 Since the BLM\/Antifa model of direct action is apparently perfectly acceptable to the governments of the various states involved would it be equally okay if a mostly peaceful protest showed up in Mountain View, California and burned Google\u2019s headquarters to the ground.\u00a0 Or maybe CNN or The New York Times or even Harvard University.\u00a0 Nothing violent or wrong just a mostly peaceful protest where people took direct action to let the country at large know that they were unhappy.\u00a0 Now, my guess is that the executive office of every big corporation in America would have a very long meeting about that occurrence but I also guess there wouldn\u2019t be any Human Resources townhall about it.\u00a0 I\u2019ll bet they won\u2019t state their opinion at all.\u00a0 But they may stop telling Americans what they have to believe in order to work at their company.\u00a0 Just a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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