Spain&#8217;s equality ministry has launched a new ad campaign in the name of diversity with the message that &#8220;all bodies are beach bodies.” The campaign includes photos of a topless woman after a mastectomy and more.
Minister of Social Rights Ione Belarra said that the idea behind the campaign is for women to stop worrying about how their bodies look, enjoy the summer, and hit the beach no matter what their size, the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62325030">BBC</a> reported in a piece published Wednesday.
&#8220;Summer is ours too,&#8221; the slogan on the campaign poster reads.
&#8220;All bodies are beach bodies,&#8221; Social Services Minister Ione Belarra <a href="https://twitter.com/ionebelarra/status/1552237445407576064">tweeted</a> in promotion of the campaign.
The poster for the campaign can be seen below and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CgghxqFMXOh/">here</a>.
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In the campaign, people can see illustrations of five women at the beach. One goes topless after having a mastectomy, several plus-size models wear bikinis, and another woman lies on a towel in a swimsuit.
The Spanish Women&#8217;s Institute, the organization behind the initiative, said the idea behind the campaign is to show the validity of all bodies, the BBC noted.
&#8220;Today we toast a summer for all, without stereotypes and aesthetic violence against our bodies,&#8221; the ad explained.
However, not everyone was impressed with the move, with many calling it absurd to assume that women need government permission to go to the beach. Junior equality minister Ángela Rodríguez Pam took to <a href="https://twitter.com/Pam_Angela_/status/1552270386125066240?s=20&amp;t=He0p99aXavcYnmvSqw2hVQ">Twitter</a> and wrote that &#8220;of course we go, but we&#8217;re assuming we&#8217;ll attract hatred for showing a body that isn&#8217;t standard,&#8221; the outlet noted.
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Señores diciendo que las gordas ya podíamos ir a la playa sin permiso de Igualdad. Claro que vamos pero asumiendo odio por enseñar un cuerpo que no es normativo Lo que reivindicamos es que todos los cuerpos están bien, también el tuyo Manolo que no es precisamente el más bello
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&#8220;Gentlemen saying that fat women could now go to the beach without permission from Equality,&#8221; the tweet read, per Twitter translate. &#8220;Of course we are going but assuming hatred for teaching a body that is not normative.&#8221;
&#8220;What we claim is that all bodies are fine, including yours, Manolo, which is not exactly the most beautiful,&#8221; the post added.
Others asked if the ad needed to include men who didn&#8217;t have a perfect physique. Then Spain&#8217;s left-wing leader, Cayo Lara, labeled the campaign the height of absurdity, saying it was trying to &#8220;create a problem where it doesn&#8217;t exist.&#8221;
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Actor Simon Pegg said during a recent radio interview that &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; had the most toxic fan base — especially when compared to &#8220;Star Trek.&#8221;
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/11-must-watch-shows-and-movies-debuting-in-2021/">Pegg</a>, uniquely qualified to address that particular question because he has appeared in both franchises, made the comments on Sirius XM&#8217;s &#8220;Jim and Sam&#8221; radio show.
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&#8220;Who have you found has the hardest fans to please when you’re like jumping into the franchises between &#8216;Dr. Who,&#8217; &#8216;Star Trek,&#8217; &#8216;Star Wars.&#8217; I mean, these are people who, who take these licenses very, very seriously,&#8221; co-host Sam Roberts began.
&#8220;To be honest — And as someone who kind of was, you know, kicked off about the prequels when they came out, the &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; fan base really seems to be the most kind of toxic at the moment. I’m probably being very controversial to say that,&#8221; Pegg replied.
The &#8220;Shaun of the Dead&#8221; actor went on to note that he had said some things he regretted — and later apologized for — about the &#8220;<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/racist-sexist-bigots-the-beatdown-of-star-wars-own-fanbase/">Star Wars</a>&#8221; prequels, particularly the widely-panned character Jar-Jar Binks.
&#8220;I mean, I’m out of it now … I’ve apologized for the things I said about, you know, Jar Jar Binks. Cause of course there was a f***ing actor involved there. He was getting a lot of flack and … It was a human being. And because it got a lot of hate, he suffered, you know, and I feel terrible about being part of that,&#8221; Pegg said.
Actor Ahmed Best — the human behind the CGI character — <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44708983">said</a> that the backlash got so bad that he considered suicide. Sharing a photo with his young son in 2018, Best said, &#8220;20 years next year I faced a media backlash that still affects my career today. This was the place I almost ended my life &#8230; It&#8217;s still hard to talk about. I survived and now this little guy is my gift for survival.&#8221;
Pegg then pivoted to compare the franchise to &#8220;<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/star-trek-strange-new-wokes/">Star Trek</a>,&#8221; where he played the role of Montgomery &#8220;Scotty&#8221; Scott in the recent series reboot.
&#8220;I find the &#8216;Star Trek&#8217; fans have always been very, very inclusive, you know, &#8216;Star Trek’s about diversity. It has been since 1966, it always was,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;There’s no sort of like, ‘Oh, you’re suddenly being woke.’ No, &#8216;Star Trek&#8217; was woke from the beginning, you know? … This is massively progressive. &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; suddenly there’s, there’s a little bit more diversity and everyone’s kicking off about it. And it’s, it’s really sad.&#8221;

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“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">Friends</a>” co-creator Marta Kauffman is planning to atone for her crime of not having enough <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity">diversity</a> on the hit NBC comedy series, she told the Los Angeles Times in an interview.
“I’ve learned a lot in the last 20 years,” Kauffman <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-06-29/friends-diversity-marta-kauffman-brandeis-university">said</a> in a Zoom interview with the publication. “Admitting and accepting guilt is not easy. It’s painful looking at yourself in the mirror. I’m embarrassed that I didn’t know better 25 years ago.”
“Friends” documented the lives of six single people living in New York City. The series, which ran for 10 seasons from 1994 until 2004, became a worldwide sensation and is considered one of the most successful <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/entertainment">comedies</a> ever made. It boasts 62 Primetime Emmy Awards and a host of other awards and accolades.
While several of the recurring roles included black actors, the six main characters were all white. Kauffman regrets making this casting choice while still saying she’s happy that Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, and Matthew Perry were all part of the series.
“I would have been insane not to hire those six actors. What can I say? I wish Lisa was black?” she <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/friends-reunion-cast-reveals-creators-interview-1234959624/">told</a> The Hollywood Reporter prior to the reunion special airing.
Now Kauffman is pledging $4 million to her alma mater, Brandeis University. The money will be used for African American students specifically. 
The Marta F. Kauffman ’78 <a href="https://alumni.brandeis.edu/news/2022/06-15-aaas-endowment.html">Professorship in African and African American Studies</a> “will support a distinguished scholar with a concentration in the study of the peoples and cultures of Africa and the African diaspora” and “help the department to recruit more expert scholars and teachers, map long-term academic and research priorities and provide new opportunities for students to engage in interdisciplinary scholarship,” per the university.
“It took me a long time to begin to understand how I internalized systemic racism,” the alumna told Brandeis. “I’ve been working really hard to become an ally, an anti-racist. And this seemed to me to be a way that I could participate in the conversation from a white woman’s perspective.”
Kauffman said the topic of diversity has been on her mind for some time.
“It was after what happened to George Floyd that I began to wrestle with my having bought into systemic racism in ways I was never aware of,” Kauffman told the LA Times. “That was really the moment that I began to examine the ways I had participated. I knew then I needed to course-correct.”
“What makes this truly emotional for me is that I want this connection I didn’t have,” she continued. “I deeply, deeply want this connection with the black community that I didn’t have. Because of ‘Friends,’ I never attained that.”
The “Friends” co-creator also confirmed that any future projects would include a more diverse cast.
“I feel I was finally able to make some difference in the conversation,” Kauffman told the publication. “I have to say, after agreeing to this and when I stopped sweating, it didn’t unburden me, but it lifted me up. But until in my next production I can do it right, it isn’t over. I want to make sure from now on in every production I do that I am conscious in hiring people of color and actively pursue young writers of color. I want to know I will act differently from now on. And then I will feel unburdened.”

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After the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court">Supreme Court</a> overturned <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/roe-v-wade">Roe v. Wade</a> — the 1973 opinion which argued that the Constitution guarantees the right to an <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/abortion">abortion</a> — several businesses announced that they would bankroll employees’ travel to seek abortions in other states. In a news segment with <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/cnn">CNN</a>, the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/diversity">diversity</a> czar of <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/yelp">Yelp</a> explained her company’s reasoning for a similar policy.
The online rating platform began offering workers and their dependents financial help for abortion-related travel in April, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/yelp-joins-apple-citigroup-other-companies-covering-travel-costs-for-abortions-11649789862?mod=article_inline">The Wall Street Journal</a>. In reaction to last week’s ruling, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman <a href="https://twitter.com/Yelp/status/1540400774345359361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">said</a> that business leaders must speak out “against the wave of abortion bans that will be triggered as a result of this decision” and called on lawmakers to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-right-to-an-abortion-is-sacred-democratic-lawmakers-renew-calls-to-codify-roe">codify Roe</a>.
Likewise, Yelp Chief Diversity Officer Miriam Warren told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2022/06/27/companies-yelp-abortion-access-benefits-economy-yurkevich-dnt-nr-vpx.cnn">CNN</a>, &#8220;For any employer that cares about issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, to stay silent on such an issue is really just not okay.”
CNN correspondent Vanessa Yurkevich asked Warren, “Do you think it’s both an asset for retention of employees, then also an asset for attracting new employees to the company?”
“I think it’s both,” she responded. “It has really been a wonderful recruiting tool in terms of prospective employees saying, ‘I want to work at a company that is out there and loud about what they believe in, and what they care about.’”
Even beyond the human rights implications of Yelp’s policy, an exclusive <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-by-two-to-one-margin-investors-reject-woke-companies-pushing-political-causes">Daily Wire poll conducted by Echelon Insights</a> showed last month that most Americans want companies they invest in to refrain from pushing social agendas. While 29% of respondents agreed it is a “good thing” for companies to leverage their power for political ends supported by executives, 58% — twice as many — said it is a “bad thing.”
Nevertheless, many of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-woke-businesses-vowing-to-cover-travel-costs-for-employees-abortion-tourism">America’s leading corporations</a> denounced the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe — which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-leaves-abortion-restrictions-to-states">occurred</a> through the Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — and clarified their support of employees’ interstate travel to obtain abortions.
“Our company remains committed to removing barriers and providing comprehensive access to quality and affordable care for all of our employees, cast members and their families, including family planning and reproductive care, no matter where they live,” Disney executives Paul Richardson and Pascale Thomas said in a memo.
“We have processes in place so that an employee who may be unable to access care in one location has affordable coverage for receiving similar levels of care in another location,” the executives continued. “This travel benefit covers medical situations related to cancer treatments, transplants, rare disease treatment and family planning (including pregnancy-related decisions).”
“In response to today’s ruling, we are announcing that if a state one of our teammates lives in restricts access to abortion, DICK’S Sporting Goods will provide up to $4,000 in travel expense reimbursement to travel to the nearest location where that care is legally available,” DICK’S Sporting Goods CEO Lauren Hobart said. “This benefit will be provided to any teammate, spouse or dependent enrolled in our medical plan, along with one support person.”
The wave of businesses announcing they would reimburse for abortion-related travel expenses began in May after Politico <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-supreme-court-strikes-down-roe-v-wade-decision-in-draft-of-majority-opinion-report-says">published</a> Justice Samuel Alito’s draft Dobbs opinion. Companies such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/levis-will-reimburse-some-employees-for-abortion-related-travel-expenses">Levi Strauss</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/subsidizing-the-abortion-industry-amazon-to-fund-abortion-tourism-for-its-employees">Amazon</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/investment-bank-will-pay-travel-expenses-so-employees-can-get-abortions-more-easily">Citigroup</a> released such policies the days after the leak.

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<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/tesla">Tesla</a> laid off two high-achieving employees involved with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity">diversity</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq">LGBTQ</a> initiatives, according to a Monday report.
Earlier this month, Tesla CEO <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a> announced that he would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-has-a-super-bad-feeling-about-the-economy-wants-a-massive-layoff-at-tesla">lay off</a> 10% of the electric automaker’s staff due to his “super bad feeling” about the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/economy">economy</a>. According to electric vehicle news outlet <a href="https://electrek.co/2022/06/20/tesla-lay-off-head-lgbtq-diversity-elon-musk-woke-mind-virus/">Electrek</a>, Bobby Berretta-Paris — the volunteer “President of LGBTQ+” at Tesla who worked as a recruiter — was among those who lost their jobs. Berretta-Paris included &#8220;President of LGBTQ+&#8221; on his LinkedIn page, although it is unclear what the designation entailed.
An unnamed engineer, who volunteered as a “Diversity and Inclusion Leader,” was also let go. Electrek made clear that both separations were part of the &#8220;broader wave of layoffs,&#8221; but repeated that both employees had received multiple promotions in their relatively short tenures, seemingly indicating that their performance was not a cause for concern.
Large corporations frequently enforce a progressive social and political agenda under the guise of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” initiatives. Technology companies are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woke-corporations-really-hate-diversity-of-thought-new-viewpoint-diversity-score-reveals">particularly intolerant</a> of conflicting worldviews outside of leftist orthodoxy. However, a recent poll conducted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-by-two-to-one-margin-investors-reject-woke-companies-pushing-political-causes">Echelon Insights on behalf of The Daily Wire</a> revealed that American investors — by a two-to-one margin — disapprove of companies leveraging their financial power for political or social means.
As Electrek noted, the layoffs come amid Musk’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/get-woke-go-broke-elon-musk-says-woke-mind-virus-makes-netflix-unwatchable-as-shares-plummet-20">concerns</a> about the “woke mind virus,” which he believes to be “the biggest threat” to civilization. Days earlier, rocket company SpaceX — which Musk also runs — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/get-woke-go-broke-spacex-fires-employees-who-wrote-a-letter-blasting-elon-musks-behavior-and-values">fired multiple employees</a> who circulated a letter criticizing the billionaire entrepreneur for his “behavior” and “values.”
“Elon’s behavior in the public sphere is a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment for us, particularly in recent weeks,” the letter asserted. “As our CEO and most prominent spokesperson, Elon is seen as the face of SpaceX — every tweet that Elon sends is a de facto public statement by the company.”
The authors also said that “it is critical to make clear to our teams and to our potential talent pool that his messaging does not reflect our work, our mission, or our values,” demanding that SpaceX “swiftly and explicitly separate itself from Elon’s personal brand.”
The day after the letter circulated, an email from SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell — who has often <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spacex-president-tells-employees-she-does-not-believe-elon-musk-sexual-misconduct-allegations">defended</a> Musk from spurious allegations — said that the employees had been canned.
“The letter, solicitations and general process made employees feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied, and/or angry because the letter pressured them to sign onto something that did not reflect their views,” Shotwell wrote. “We have too much critical work to accomplish and no need for this kind of overreaching activism.”
The separations at both companies came days after Musk made headlines for announcing that he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-tips-hat-toward-ron-desantis-to-be-next-president-of-the-united-states">cast his ballot</a> for Mayra Flores — a Mexican-American Republican congressional candidate who won a historically Democratic district in southern Texas — after earlier announcing that he would vote Republican in this year’s midterm elections. When asked online about who he was leaning toward supporting in the 2024 presidential election, Musk said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Musk has encouraged Silicon Valley — and the United States at large — to reject wokeness and reaffirm a commitment to free expression.
“I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans,” Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-torches-mainstream-institutions-for-extreme-antibody-reaction-to-free-speech">said</a> in April, adding that the “extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all.”

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Actor and activist Chris Evans on Tuesday slammed critics who don&#8217;t approve of a gay kiss scene in the latest &#8220;Toy Story&#8221; spinoff, &#8220;Lightyear.&#8221;
Disney/Pixar reinstated the same-sex kiss between two female characters, Alisha and her wife, following Florida&#8217;s Parental Rights in Education bill, which bans classroom discussion on anything related to sexuality and gender to children in third-grade and younger.
“The real truth is, those people are idiots,&#8221; Evans <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/instant-article/idUSL1N2Y103M">told</a> Reuters, slamming critics of the kiss. &#8220;Every time there’s been social advancement as we wake up, the American story, the human story is one of constant social awakening and growth and that’s what makes us good.”
Evans similarly <a href="https://variety.com/2022/film/features/chris-evans-lightyear-same-sex-kiss-1235293017/">gushed</a> over the gay kiss in an interview with Variety on Monday.
&#8220;Disney put a line in the sand saying, we’re putting this back in, but also, we’re not going to remove it for any other territories, in these places that would have a problem with it,&#8221; a Variety reporter said. &#8220;What did you make of the company making that decision?&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, it’s great,&#8221; the actor responded. &#8220;As great as it is — and you know, I’ve been asked the question a few times — it’s nice, and it’s wonderful, it makes me happy.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s tough to not be a little frustrated that it even has to be a topic of discussion,&#8221; Evans continued. &#8220;That it is this kind of &#8216;news.&#8217; The goal is that we can get to a point where it is the norm, and that this doesn’t have to be some uncharted waters, that eventually this is just the way it is. That representation across the board is how we make films.&#8221;
&#8220;Look, it’s an honor to be a part of something that is taking those steps, but the goal is to look back on this time and just be shocked that it took us this long to get there,&#8221; the &#8220;Captain America&#8221; star added.
Disney also notably recast Tim Allen for Evans as the iconic voice of the character Buzz Lightyear. Allen is openly conservative.
Actress Patricia Heaton, who is also openly conservative, slammed Disney on Tuesday for the replacement, asking why they would “completely castrate this iconic, beloved character,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/actress-slams-disney-for-replacing-tim-allen-with-chris-evans-in-lightyear-asks-why-they-would-completely-castrate-this-iconic-character">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
“Saw the trailer for Buzz Lightyear and all I can say is Disney/Pixar made a HUGE mistake in not casting my pal [Tim Allen],” Heaton said on <a href="https://twitter.com/PatriciaHeaton/status/1536737444804034561?s=20&amp;t=gt5X9XXQA3a7eQFFC8kaHg">Twitter</a>. “Tim Allen in the role that he originated, the role that he owns. Tim IS Buzz! Why would they completely castrate this iconic, beloved character?”
(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/introducing-dw-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> plans for kids’ entertainment content.)
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Corporate America does not like the First Amendment, according to a new business index released on Thursday.
The <a href="https://viewpointdiversityscore.org/">Viewpoint Diversity Score</a> — a joint venture between legal nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom and Christian financial firm Inspire Investing — examines 50 companies on the Fortune 1000 list to determine “corporate respect for religious and ideological diversity,” according to a <a href="https://adfmedia.org/press-release/adf-rates-50-companies-fortune-1000-list-commitment-free-speech-religious-freedom">press release</a>.
How did those 50 companies score? Not particularly well, according to the project’s <a href="https://viewpointdiversityscore.org/company/meta">business index</a>. The firms averaged 12% on “respecting religious and ideological diversity in the market, workplace, and public square.”
“A project like this would not have been necessary 30 months ago, let alone 20 years ago,” David Bahnsen, a Manhattan-based wealth management executive and member of the Viewpoint Diversity Score’s advisory council, told The Daily Wire. “American companies have never been willing to sacrifice the profit motive, let alone the First Amendment, for social activism, let alone ill-defined cultural extremism.”
Two industries in particular — software and internet services — scored particularly poorly at 6% and 7%, respectively. For instance, Facebook parent company Meta earned a 9% overall rating — a 13% for promoting diversity in the public square, a 12% for doing so in the workplace, and a dismal 3% for doing so in the market.
“CEOs and business leaders have positions of considerable power. They shouldn’t weaponize their influence or the companies they run to divide Americans or engage in speech censorship or anti-religious bigotry,” ADF Senior Counsel Jeremy Tedesco said in the release. “Instead of using the cultural power of their brands to drive polarization, business leaders should commit to respecting everyone, regardless of their religion or ideology. Businesses should respect viewpoint diversity at every level of their organizations, from the shop floor to the board room, and externally as well.”
To help businesses understand the importance of guarding viewpoint diversity among their customers and employees, the Viewpoint Diversity Score is offering a variety of <a href="https://viewpointdiversityscore.org/resources">research and resources</a>, as well as polling on Americans’ thoughts about building “a culture of respect for people who hold diverse religious and social viewpoints.”
“Ideologically charged business services are bad for everyone, no matter their religious or political views,” Inspire Investing CEO Robert Netzly added in the release. “By adopting the model policies and strategies we recommend, companies can cement their reputations as tolerant businesses that respect free speech and religious freedom as a standard part of doing business.”
Indeed, a recent poll of American investors conducted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-by-two-to-one-margin-investors-reject-woke-companies-pushing-political-causes">Echelon Insights on behalf of The Daily Wire</a> revealed that respondents want companies to stop preaching and pursue profits. While 29% of respondents agreed it is a “good thing” for companies to leverage their financial power for political or social means supported by executives, 58% — twice as many — said it is a “bad thing.”
When asked to discern the motives of companies that take stances on political or social issues, 56% of investors said the firms are merely “trying to appease their critics” and 34% said the firms genuinely “believe it’s the right thing.” When companies do take stances on issues, 36% of investors said the stances are “too liberal,” while 17% said they are “too conservative.”
“The data are clear: everyday investors want companies to focus on creating shareholder value by delivering excellent products and services to their customers, not on advancing social or political agendas,” entrepreneur and former pharmaceutical executive Vivek Ramaswamy told The Daily Wire.

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State Farm is backing down Monday after outrage over its plan to donate books promoting transgenderism to schools and public libraries for children as young as five years old.
&#8220;State Farm&#8217;s support of a philanthropic program, GenderCool, has been the subject of news and customer inquiries,&#8221; reads a May 23 email from Victor Terry, State Farm&#8217;s chief diversity officer, to State Farm agents, according to the popular Twitter account @LibsofTikTok, which often breaks news on cultural issues.
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BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/StateFarm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StateFarm</a> sent out a mass email to their staff today stating “we will no longer support that program” after they were exposed for supporting a project to push LGBTQ books into schools. A source tells me “the agents were really upset when we found out.” W <a href="https://t.co/55P1QJ0oLa">pic.twitter.com/55P1QJ0oLa</a>
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The program was intended to promote &#8220;inclusivity,&#8221; but State Farm will no longer support it, Terry wrote.
&#8220;Conversations about gender and identity should happen at home with parents,&#8221; reads Terry&#8217;s email. &#8220;We don&#8217;t support required curriculum in schools on this topic.&#8221;
&#8220;We will no longer support that program,&#8221; State Farm&#8217;s chief diversity officer continued. &#8220;We will continued to explore how we can support organizations that provide tools and resources that align with our commitment to diversity and inclusion.&#8221; The company also said it supports organizations &#8220;providing resources for parents to have these conversations.&#8221;
Earlier on Monday, news broke that the car insurance company encouraged its Florida agents to volunteer to receive books about gender identity and donate them to their community schools or public libraries by the end of April. The three books — “A Kids Book About Being Transgender,” “A Kids Book About Being Non-Binary,” and “A Kids Book About Being Inclusive” — are intended for kindergarten and above.
“The project’s goal is to increase representation of LGBTQ+ books and support our communities in having challenging, important and empowering conversations with children age 5+,” a leaked internal email <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leak-state-farm-said-its-giving-transgender-books-for-five-year-olds-to-florida-schools-appears-to-backtrack">showed</a>.
That internal email said that the insurance giant is deploying the project nationwide, not just in Florida. About 550 State Farm agents and employees will have the opportunity to donate the books to a local teacher, community center, or library, according to the email.
In Florida, books promoting transgenderism such as the ones State Farm is donating would not be allowed in young children’s classrooms come July 1, when Florida&#8217;s new parental rights law goes into effect.
The email caused a stir on social media, with many Twitter users reacting to the news by saying they would cancel or avoid State Farm insurance policies.

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A former wealth management executive at Wells Fargo joins other former and current employees in claiming that the bank conducts fake interviews with female and minority applicants to boost diversity numbers, according to a Thursday report from <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/business/wells-fargo-fake-interviews.html">The New York Times</a>.
Joe Bruno is “one of seven current and former Wells Fargo employees who said that they were instructed by their direct bosses or human resources managers in the bank’s wealth management unit to interview ‘diverse’ candidates — even though the decision had already been made to give the job to another candidate,” the Times reported. “Five others said they were aware of the practice, or helped to arrange it.”
The individuals said that the interviews were meaningless attempts to support diversity goals — and to avoid regulatory audits. In August 2020, Wells Fargo agreed to pay $7.8 million to settle a Department of Labor claim alleging that the bank <a href="https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ofccp/ofccp20200824">discriminated</a> against more than 34,000 African-American applicants for banking, customer sales and service, and administrative support positions, as well as over 300 female applicants for administrative support positions.
Bruno told the Times that he complained to his superiors about the “fake interviews” — which he characterized as “inappropriate, morally wrong, ethically wrong.” Bruno was fired last summer after Wells Fargo “dismissed his claims,” the Times added; Wells Fargo says he was fired for retaliation against another employee.
Wells Fargo spokeswoman Raschelle Burton told the Times that “to the extent that individual employees are engaging in the behavior … we do not tolerate it.”
The bank also faced criticism in the summer of 2020 after Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf said in a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/wells-fargo-ceo-apologizes-for-comment-on-recruiting-black-employees-11600884439">memo</a> that “the unfortunate reality is that there is a very limited pool of Black talent to recruit from with this specific experience.” He apologized for the “insensitive comment reflecting my own unconscious bias” later that year, affirming that “there are many talented diverse individuals working at Wells Fargo and throughout the financial services industry and I never meant to imply otherwise.”
The criticism came despite Wells Fargo <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/01/wall-street-ceos-speak-out-about-george-floyd-and-protests-rocking-us-cities.html">joining other top investment banks</a> in launching diversity pushes after the death of George Floyd.
“This is a painful time for our nation,” Scharf said. “As a white man, as much as I can try to understand what others are feeling, I know that I cannot really appreciate and understand what people of color experience and the impacts of discriminatory behavior others must live with … I can commit that our company will do all we can to support our diverse communities and foster a company culture that deeply values and respects diversity and inclusion.”
Beyond its potential fudging of diversity benchmarks, Wells Fargo agreed to pay $3 billion in February 2020 after it had pressured employees to “meet unrealistic sales goals that led thousands of employees to provide millions of accounts or products to customers under false pretenses or without consent, often by creating false records or misusing customers’ identities,” according to the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wells-fargo-agrees-pay-3-billion-resolve-criminal-and-civil-investigations-sales-practices">Department of Justice.</a>
“Our office is committed to bringing to justice those who deliberately falsify and fabricate bank records in order to deceive regulators and the public,” Inspector General Mark Bialek of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection said at the time.

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A judge in California said that a law forcing companies to include women on their corporate boards is unconstitutional. 
In a ruling from Friday, Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis said California could not prove that the “use of a gender-based classification was necessary to boost California’s economy, improve opportunities for women in the workplace, and protect California taxpayers, public employees, pensions and retirees.”
The California legislature also didn’t think about changing anti-discrimination laws that were already in effect or “putting into effect a new anti-discrimination law focused on the board selection process before Senate Bill 826 was signed into law, Duffy-Lewis wrote,” per the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-16/california-law-women-on-corporate-boards-ruled-unconstitutional">Los Angeles Times</a>.
The court also found that the state couldn’t put forward any proof of a certain company that discriminated against a woman and would have been under the law.
Judicial Watch, a conservative legal foundation, brought a challenge against the law in a trial without a jury a few months ago, making the argument that taxpayers should not be forced to pay to make sure corporate boards met a certain gender qualification.
The law dates back to former Democratic Governor of California Jerry Brown, and was signed by Brown in 2018. However, workers with the secretary of state’s office said in the trial that it was essentially useless by 2022.
If a company didn’t meet the quotas, they could be fined $100,000 for a first-time offense and then $300,000 for another, but none were ever issued fines for violations and California wasn’t going to carry out the rule, according to Betsy Bogart, chief of business programs at the secretary of state’s office.
Last year, less than half of the almost 650 applicable companies in California reported they had acted in accordance with the law. &#8220;More than half didn’t file the required disclosure statement, according to the most recent report,” according to <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/judge-says-california-law-requiring-women-on-corporate-boards-is-unconstitutional#:~:text=The%20law%20required%20publicly%20held,required%20to%20have%20three%20women">PBS</a>.
Prior to Brown signing the legislation, the secretary of state at the time — Alex Padilla — told the governor it would be hard to carry out.
“Any attempt by the secretary of state to collect or enforce the fine would likely exceed its authority,” Padilla wrote to Brown in a letter that was incorporated in the trial.
State Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, who co-authored the legislation, said the decision was a disappointment.
“More women on corporate boards means better decisions and businesses that outperform the competition — that’s a studied, proven fact,” Atkins said in a statement. “We believe this law remains important — despite the disheartening ruling from the Los Angeles Superior Court — and it exemplifies equal access and opportunity, the very bedrock of our democracy. For those still afraid of women in positions of leadership, they need to work on figuring that out because the world is moving on without them.”
Judicial Watch also brought forward another lawsuit concerning a California law that tried to force certain companies in California to have specific diversity requirements for their boards. That law was also found to be unconstitutional by a judge in Los Angeles. The judge did not provide a reason for the decision.
The ruling “declared unconstitutional one of the most blatant and significant attacks in the modern era on constitutional prohibitions against discrimination,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-04-04/california-corporate-diversity-law-ruled-unconstitutional">said</a> in a statement, per the Los Angeles Times.

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Netflix thought they’d get accolades for making so many diverse hires. That strategy backfired when the company had to do layoffs months after launching the fan website Tudum. Now the company is facing public outcry that a number of minority employees lost their jobs.
According to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/28/netflix-layoffs-tudum-editorial/amp/?guccounter=1">TechCrunch</a>, the company laid off editorial staff from its in-house publication Tudum only five months after launching the new venture. More than ten writers tweeted about being let go, including an editorial manager. The publication indicated that 25 people in Netflix’s marketing department were affected by the decision.
A Netflix spokesperson told the outlet, “Our fan website Tudum is an important priority for the company.”
“It is worth mentioning that Netflix actively recruited Black women and people of color just to lay them off MONTHS later without a second thought,” journalist Monique Judge shared on Twitter. “Don’t brag about being inclusive when you treat your ‘diversity’ hires like they are disposable.”
Affected staff “were full-time, part-time or on contract. Most of them had just been given promotions the month prior to lay-offs,” <a href="https://madamenoire.com/1313902/tudum-layoffs-netflix/">according to</a> Madame Noire. The publication noted that employees “were only offered two weeks of severance pay.”
“Netflix recruited me seven months ago only to lay me and a bunch of other talented people off today. I’m going to take time off to just exist, so please get in touch if you’ll have editing and content strategy opportunities open after August,” one woman tweeted along with her contact information.
“Well. I just was laid off from a significant contract originally intended through August so I’m looking for stable work… and rent. I need rent,” Nichole Perkins <a href="https://twitter.com/tnwhiskeywoman/status/1519754133158473729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1519754133158473729%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2022%2F04%2F29%2F1095642535%2Fnetflix-promised-secure-jobs-at-tudum-now-one-of-its-teams-has-been-laid-off">tweeted</a>.
One ex-Tudum employee told <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/04/29/1095642535/netflix-promised-secure-jobs-at-tudum-now-one-of-its-teams-has-been-laid-off">NPR</a>: “They went very out of their way to hire high level journalists of color who have quite a bit of name recognition and a lot of experience and talent. In some ways, they were just buying clout to lend credibility to their gambit…We were courted pretty aggressively.”
“They sold us on the most amazing thing that you could want as a culture journalist or entertainment journalist,” the former staffer continued. “They just sold something that seemed impossible anywhere else…But the biggest selling point was the pay…People upended their lives for this.”
The streaming service made headlines when it admitted to losing 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022, marking its first subscriber loss in more than a decade. The company expects to lose 2 million subscribers globally in Q2. Netflix responded by raising prices for customers, which could encourage more cancellations, and vowing to crack down on password sharing.

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The University of Waterloo is advertising a researcher position exclusively for &#8220;qualified individuals who self-identify as women, transgender, non-binary, or two-spirit.&#8221;
The position at the <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/571514536/University-of-Waterloo-Advertisement">Canadian university</a> is for a researcher in the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council. While &#8220;exceptional&#8221; candidates may be considered for an assistant professor position, the advertisement makes it clear that you cannot be one of these candidates if you are a male.
&#8220;This call is open only to qualified individuals who self-identify as women, transgender, non-binary, or two-spirit.&#8221; The term &#8220;two-spirit&#8221; <a href="https://lgbtqhealth.ca/community/two-spirit.php">referring</a> to an Indigenous person who identifies as more than one gender.
The university did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Daily Wire.
Applicants are required to &#8220;self identify&#8221; through a university survey, which first asks applicants to select whether they identify as a woman, a man, transgender, &#8220;gender-fluid and/or non-binary,&#8221; two-spirit, or &#8220;prefer not to answer.&#8221;
The applicant is then asked to select the option they identify with: asexual, bisexual, gay, lesbian, pansexual, straight or heterosexual, other, or &#8220;prefer not to answer.&#8221;
&#8220;Select all that apply,&#8221; the survey notes.
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The University of Waterloo&#39;s Faculty of Environment is seeking a candidate to fill an NSERC Tier 2 Canada Research Chair and tenure track position. Learn more: <a href="https://t.co/cxaLZDa8EG">https://t.co/cxaLZDa8EG</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/water?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#water</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/climate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#climate</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/climatechange?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#climatechange</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/research?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#research</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/waterloo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#waterloo</a> <a href="https://t.co/C9vmtpDS68">pic.twitter.com/C9vmtpDS68</a>
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The University of Waterloo emphasizes that it seeks to attract &#8220;outstanding and diverse faculty members with the goal of being recognized as one of the top innovative universities in the world,&#8221; noting that &#8220;embedding equity, diversity and inclusivity across the research enterprise enhances research excellence.&#8221;
&#8220;As such, we encourage applications from candidates who have been historically disadvantaged and marginalized, including applicants who identify as Indigenous peoples (e.g., First Nations, Métis, Inuit/Inuk), Black, racialized, people with disabilities, women and/or 2SLGBTQ+,&#8221; the advertisement says.
In the university&#8217;s advertisement it notes that the candidate &#8220;will propose an innovative program of high-quality research that will attract external funding and excellent, well qualified and diverse graduate students.&#8221;
&#8220;Evidence of an active research program with emphasis on climate and/or climate change science, water science and sustainability, or future cities and a successful record of Tri-Agency research funding, or equivalent, is required,&#8221; the advertisement says. &#8220;Ability and desire to partner with faculty in closely related fields is required.&#8221;

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