The best-selling author of all time outside of William Shakespeare can now join fellow British authors Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming by suffering the ignominy of having her books edited for woke purposes.
The works of Agatha Christie, whose mysteries featuring detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple delighted readers enough for her novels to have sold between two to four billion copies, have been altered in new editions published by HarperCollins.
HarperCollins has “created new editions of the entire run of Miss Marple mysteries and selected Poirot novels,” The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/25/agatha-christie-classics-latest-rewritten-modern-sensitivities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>.
Examples of the bowdlerization of Christie’s novels include altering the inner narration of Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple. Other examples include the character of Miss Allerton in “Death on the Nile,” who disparaged children by saying, “they come back and stare, and stare, and their eyes are simply disgusting, and so are their noses, and I don’t believe I really like children,” now state, “They come back and stare, and stare. And I don’t believe I really like children.”
Also in “Death on the Nile,” references to the Nubian people have been elided.
The term “Oriental” is no longer extant in the HarperCollins editions; a “grinning” black servant has been changed to someone not black and  “nodding.” In “A Caribbean Mystery,” the description of a West Indian hotel worker having “such lovely white teeth” has been stricken; “beautiful teeth” has also been removed.
The word “natives” has either been removed or replaced with “local”.
The Hercule Poirot mysteries started with “The Mysterious Affair At Styles,” and went on to include at least two novels often considered some of the best mystery novels of all time: “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd,” which uprooted the rules generally hitherto adhered to in mystery novels, and “And Then There Were None.” Other classic novels included “The ABC Murders,” “Murder on the Orient Express,” “Death On The Nile,” and “Curtain,” which was published posthumously, the last case of Poirot’s career and  a brilliant example of Christie’s originality.
In addition to the novels featuring Poirot and Marple, Christie also wrote four novels about the couple Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, which had their own charm as readers followed them from being youngsters falling in love to their adventures in old age.
The publisher of Roald Dahl, the famed children’s author who wrote “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Matilda,” “James and the Giant Peach,” and “The BFG,” among other works, collaborated with the Roald Dahl Story Co., which manages the works’ copyright and trademarks, to make hundreds of alterations in order not to offend anyone with Dahl’s original works.
The Roald Dahl Story Co. admitted they had worked with Inclusive Minds, which monitors children’s literature for inclusion, diversity, and accessibility, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/02/19/roald-dahl-books-revisions-salman-rushdie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/17/roald-dahl-books-rewritten-offensive-matilda-witches-twits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegraph</a> illuminated some of the changes made to Dahl’s books, and their report caused author Salman Rushdie, himself the subject of an Iranian death warrant for his work, to tweet, “Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship. Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed.”
Ian Fleming Publications Ltd.  commissioned a review of Fleming’s James Bond novels by “sensitivity readers,” according to <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/25/james-bond-books-edited-remove-racist-references/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Telegraph</a>.

Murder On The Orient Express

No End In Sight: Publisher Woke-Editing Best-Selling Fiction Novelist Of All Time

Publisher Woke-Editing Best-Selling Fiction Novelist Of All Time

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Members of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> failed Thursday to override the veto issued by President <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> which overturned their resolution to nix a Labor Department rule supportive of the environmental, social, and corporate governance movement, also known as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/esg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESG</a>.
The Labor Department issued a <a href="https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ebsa/about-ebsa/our-activities/resource-center/fact-sheets/final-rule-on-prudence-and-loyalty-in-selecting-plan-investments-and-exercising-shareholder-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">final rule</a> in November which permits retirement fiduciaries to consider climate change and other ESG factors “when they make investment decisions and when they exercise shareholder rights, including voting on shareholder resolutions and board nominations.” Republicans and a handful of Democrats in the House and Senate voted earlier this month to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-and-senate-send-rebuke-of-bidens-esg-agenda-to-his-desk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overturn</a> the rule; their resolution was nevertheless <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-uses-first-veto-of-his-presidency-to-kill-rebuke-of-federal-esg-push" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vetoed</a> by Biden on Monday.
Lawmakers could have overturned the veto with supermajorities in both chambers; the resolution <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-joint-resolution/30/all-actions?overview=closed&amp;q=%7B%22roll-call-vote%22%3A%22all%22%7D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failed</a> to meet the threshold in the House on Thursday in a vote of 219-200.
“With his veto, the President once again insists on undermining the financial security of the very people who elected him,” Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said in <a href="https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=408994" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks</a> ahead of the vote. “Republicans will stand with American workers and retirees in protecting their savings. ESG investing puts the future of millions of Americans in jeopardy when they are already facing economic hardships and inflation brought on by this administration’s reckless spending.”
The final rule from the Labor Department overturns a previous <a href="https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ebsa/ebsa20201030" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rule</a> created by former President Donald Trump, which prevented “fiduciaries from selecting investments based on non-pecuniary considerations” and required them to “base investment decisions on financial factors” alone. Skeptics of the ESG movement contend that the investment philosophy intermixes political and social causes, such as decreasing carbon emissions or diversifying company leadership with respect to race or sex, in a manner that compromises or distracts from profitability.
Members of the House had voted 216-204 earlier this month in favor of the resolution to eliminate the Biden administration rule, while members of the Senate approved the resolution 50-46. Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), both of whom face reelection campaigns next year in broadly conservative states, voted to advance the measure, while Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) also voted for the resolution and joined the attempt to overturn the veto.
“West Virginians are under increasing stress as we continue to recover from a once in a generation pandemic, pay the bills amid record inflation, and face the largest land war in Europe since World War II,” Manchin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/absolutely-infuriating-manchin-blasts-biden-for-vetoing-rebuke-of-esg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> after the veto. “The administration’s unrelenting campaign to advance a radical social and environmental agenda is only exacerbating these challenges.”
American investors are broadly wary of the ESG movement and desire that their retirement funds are allocated in a politically neutral manner. An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-by-two-to-one-margin-investors-reject-woke-companies-pushing-political-causes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclusive poll</a> from The Daily Wire showed last year that 64% of respondents believe “individual investors whose savings are being invested” should decide whether funds are appropriated according to ESG standards, while a mere 20% believe that “Wall Street asset managers” should make such decisions.
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Republicans had considered the resolution a rebuke of the White House’s recent nods toward the ESG movement. Biden, on the other hand, <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/03/20/message-to-the-house-of-representatives-presidents-veto-of-h-j-res-30/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> on Monday that the “Republican-led resolution would force retirement managers to ignore” risk factors such as climate change, as well as spurn “the principles of free markets” and harm the retirement savings of households.

President Biden Delivers Remarks On Economy

Biden’s Woke Investment Rule Stays Intact As House Fails To Override Veto

House Fails To Override Biden's Veto Of Anti-ESG Bill

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A senior executive at <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/switzerland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Swiss</a> investment bank Credit Suisse who claims to be “nonbinary” and “gender fluid” spent much of the past several years campaigning for <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBTQ</a> inclusion in the global <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/banks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">financial</a> system as performance at the company declined.
The financial institution <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/banking-crisis-widens-as-credit-suisse-shares-plunge-on-alarming-annual-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">named</a> several “material weaknesses” with respect to risk assessment strategy in a recently published annual report. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority and the Swiss National Bank <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/collapsing-too-big-to-fail-bank-receives-massive-support-from-swiss-authorities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">provided</a> the company with $54 billion in liquidity on Thursday in order to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/collapsing-too-big-to-fail-bank-receives-massive-support-from-swiss-authorities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prevent</a> the collapse of the “systemically important” institution.
Jordan Schachtel, an independent journalist at The Dossier, <a href="https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1636353368644886528" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> on social media that Bunce has accumulated many honors from LGBTQ activist entities and prominent organizations in the financial sector. The executive’s LinkedIn <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pips-bunce-4795121/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">account</a> lists “She/Her/They” pronouns; half of the profile picture featured on the account shows Bunce in a suit and tie, while the other half shows Bunce wearing makeup, a blonde wig, a red dress, and what appear to be fake breasts.
Bunce has worked at Credit Suisse for nearly two decades, including more than eight years as the firm’s head of global markets core engineering integration components.
The Bank of London featured Bunce as recently as this week in its Rainbow Honours initiative. “It warms my heart to see so much work done to progress our world to being a more open and inclusive space for all and where everyone can live free from the fear of prejudice, discrimination and hatred,” Bunce <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pips-bunce-4795121_lovewinsoverhate-bethechangeyouwanttosee-activity-7041362432761462784-SCKi?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on LinkedIn. “I am also so very proud of all my colleagues here at Credit Suisse and the many other firms and organisations I work with as each and every LGBTQI+ Ally really is a super hero.”
Bunce has also been <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/4bd11478-baac-11e8-8dfd-2f1cbc7ee27c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listed</a> as one of the “champions of women in business” by Financial Times. The executive <a href="https://twitter.com/Openly/status/1586025246808752130" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defined</a> intersectionality as not conforming to “a nice, single one box” last year at an LGBTQ conference hosted by consulting firm McKinsey &amp; Company. “I’m nonbinary, I’m genderfluid, I’m trans, I’m many different things,” Bunce remarked. “We all have so many different amazing attributes. To me, we’re all the same, but uniquely different.”
McKinsey interviewed Bunce in 2021 and <a href="https://twitter.com/McKinsey/status/1447612204900028420" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> the executive &#8220;Mx. Pips Bunce&#8221; in a social media video.
Credit Suisse <a href="https://www.credit-suisse.com/sustainability/en/people-and-planet/diversity-and-inclusion.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasts</a> on its website that more than 6,000 employees were “active LGBTQ+ allies” as of two years ago and offers “ally networks” for members of senior management.
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The recent financial instability at Credit Suisse has been developing for years, but intensified days after Silicon Valley Bank, one of the largest financial institutions in the United States, collapsed after depositors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/regulators-shut-down-major-tech-bank-after-run-on-savings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rushed</a> to withdraw their funds. Silicon Valley Bank announced a share sale after the company suffered heavy losses from the liquidation of a $21 billion bond portfolio, raising concerns among clients about the safety of their assets. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation now directs holdings maintained by Silicon Valley Bank.
The company faced <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/failed-svb-criticized-for-hyper-focus-on-woke-dei-initiatives-lgbt-activism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backlash</a> in the wake of its collapse for an intense emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Silicon Valley Bank neglected to fill its senior risk management role for most of last year while Jay Ersapah, the executive in charge of risk management in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, described herself as a “queer person of color from a working-class background” and organized LGBTQ initiatives such as a month-long pride campaign.

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‘Mx. Pips Bunce’: ‘Gender Fluid’ Executive At Credit Suisse Pushed For LGBTQ Visibility As Bank Imploded

'Gender Fluid' Executive At Credit Suisse Pushed For LGBTQ Visibility As Bank Failed

Banks

Business

LGBTQ

Silicon Valley Bank

With the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-heres-why-silicon-valley-bank-collapsed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collapse of Silicon Valley Bank</a> (SVB), the California lender&#8217;s <a href="https://www.svb.com/leadership" target="_blank" rel="noopener">board of directors</a> are facing intense scrutiny.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/14/obama-aide-hillary-donors-improv-actor-meet-svbs-board/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conducted a review</a>, which highlighted several members of the 12-person board, and has received negative press for a focus on <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11854497/SVB-hired-woke-board-obsessed-diversity-invested-5BN-healthier-planet.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">woke initiatives and diversity</a>.
<a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=Kate+D.+Mitchell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Election Commission (FEC) records</a> show that one director, venture capitalist Kate Mitchell, has donated tens of thousands of dollars toward groups boosting Democrats, including those supporting Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama.
Mitchell made news for sharing how she prayed at a Shinto shrine in Kyoto, Japan, over Thanksgiving after Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump. “I prayed for me and us to get beyond our grieving and shock and to figure out how to engage and listen to what happened and come back together,” she said, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/13/silicon-valley-still-depressed-about-trump-win.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to CNBC</a>.
Elizabeth &#8220;Busy&#8221; Burr, who <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230109005268/en/Rite-Aid-Corporation-Names-Elizabeth-%E2%80%9CBusy%E2%80%9D-Burr-Interim-Chief-Executive-Officer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">became interim CEO</a> of the Rite Aid Corporation in January, talked in 2021 about how her participation in an improv troupe taught her valuable lessons in life.
&#8220;I’ve learned a lot from doing improv and it’s influenced how I think about leadership,&#8221; <a href="https://medium.com/authority-magazine/women-of-the-c-suite-busy-burr-of-carrot-on-the-five-things-you-need-to-succeed-as-a-senior-aa8e78f96893" target="_blank" rel="noopener">she told Authority Magazine</a>. &#8220;Improv is a creative art form — you create a story in real-time, in front of an audience — there’s no script so you’re figuring things out on your feet.&#8221;
Burr also shared her views on creating an &#8220;inclusive, representative, and equitable society,&#8221; as the publication put it, from the perch of being on a board of directors.
&#8220;I sit on a couple of public company boards and that’s one place to start, for Boards of Directors to hold management teams accountable for digging and understanding the way merit and promotion are handled in a company,&#8221; Burr said. &#8220;It’s not enough to just report the numbers, instead, we need to demand a deep look at company culture — what are the informal networks and behaviors that support the status quo. Discuss this at the board level and hold management teams accountable for real change.&#8221;
Garen Staglin <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/14/obama-aide-hillary-donors-improv-actor-meet-svbs-board/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">got a mention in the New York Post report</a> for owning a vineyard in Napa County, California, not far from where House Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and her husband Paul Pelosi have a vineyard. FEC records show <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=Garen+Staglin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">years of donations</a> from Staglin to Democrats all over the country.
Yet another SVB board member, Mary J. Miller, is a former Obama administration Treasury Department official who ran an unsuccessful campaign for Baltimore mayor in 2020.
Miller faced calls to drop out of that race after a supportive political action committee released an email that said it was &#8220;<a href="https://www.wbaltv.com/article/baltimore-mayors-race-political-action-committee-mary-miller/32480011#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">targeting white voters</a>&#8221; in a bid to pull support away from other candidates. Although Miller said her campaign had no involvement or prior knowledge of the email, she nevertheless apologized to Baltimoreans for the message.
<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/10/silicon-valley-bank-financial-in-talks-to-sell-itself-after-attempts-to-raise-capital-have-failed-sources-say.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNBC reported</a> that SVB collapsed on Friday after it struggled to raise nearly $2.3 billion in assets to cover customer deposit withdrawals and failed to find a buyer. The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-sec-launch-probes-into-silicon-valley-bank-collapse-report?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=conservnewsd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly opened investigations</a> that would include a look into executives&#8217; share sales before U.S. regulators shut down the floundering bank and took control of its deposits.
SVB CEO Greg Becker, who is listed on the board of directors, sold millions of dollars in stock just days before the company&#8217;s failure and CFO Daniel Beck sold about one-third of his holdings for about $575,000, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-sec-investigating-silicon-valley-banks-collapse-c192c2b2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to The Wall Street Journal</a>.
Other people <a href="https://www.svb.com/leadership" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listed as members of SVB board</a> include Chairwoman Kay Matthews; Thomas King, former CEO of investment banking at Barclays; Coursera CEO Jeffrey Maggioncalda; Richard Daniels, former executive vice president and chief information officer at Kaiser Permanente; and Eric Benhamou, chairman and CEO of Benhamou Global Ventures.
Among those who have taken shots at SVB&#8217;s board is &#8220;Shark Tank&#8221; star Kevin O&#8217;Leary. On Sunday, he suggested the collapse could be pinned on the bank&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinolearytv/status/1635005354953289728" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;negligent board of directors&#8221; and &#8220;idiot management.&#8221;</a>
Matthews, King, Mitchell, Miller, and Benhamou have been <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-13/svb-explores-options-for-investment-banking-fund-manager-units#xj4y7vzkg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">named as part of a team</a> to consider &#8220;<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/svb-financial-group-to-explore-strategic-alternatives-301769853.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strategic alternatives</a>&#8221; for investment banking and fund manager units that are separate from the bank itself under the parent SVB Financial Group.

Kate Mitchell

Meet The SVB Board: Trump ‘Shock’ Prayers, Dem Donors, And Improv

Meet The SVB Board: Trump 'Shock' Prayers, Dem Donors, And Improv

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U.S.

The film that saved &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-saved-hollywoods-a-spielberg-praises-cruise-for-top-gun-maverick" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollywood&#8217;s a**</a>&#8221; was rewarded for its heroism with a paltry Oscar for Best Sound at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The 95th Academy Awards</a> Sunday night.
So why did &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/top-gun" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Top Gun: Maverick</a>&#8221; get burnt by The Academy despite its high-flying success? Well, Hollywood bigwigs cannot openly give too much credit to the highest-grossing film of 2022 for its success; Doing so would admit that their anti-American and woke crusade has been an abject failure that has hurt their bottom dollar.
Ultimately, leftists can never admit they were wrong about a topic because doing so would weaken their power — whether that be cultural or political. The reality is that the audience does not want to go to movies for a lecture and forced diversity — they want to be enthralled by the magic of film and a cinematic experience.
&#8220;Maverick&#8221; hauled in <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/10/top-gun-maverick-disney-top-box-office-2022.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CTop%20Gun%3A%20Maverick%E2%80%9D%20was%20the%20highest%20grossing%20theatrical%20release,of%20the%20domestic%20box%20office." target="_blank" rel="noopener">$719 million</a> at the box office last year. The instant classic received rave reviews, including from the legendary producer/director Steven Spielberg, who recently told Tom Cruise at the 2023 Oscar Luncheon, “You saved Hollywood’s a**, and you might have saved theatrical distribution.”
“Seriously, &#8216;Maverick’ might have saved the entire theatrical industry,&#8221; he emphasized.
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TOM CRUISE SAVED the entire movie industry with Top Gun Maverick, according to Steven Spielberg. 
&quot;You Saved Hollywood&#39;s A**&quot;
Spielberg told Cruise at the Oscar luncheon, Top Gun 2 saved the theatrical distribution business, likely because he produced a traditional film that… <a href="https://t.co/QI8jYaF18Z">https://t.co/QI8jYaF18Z</a> <a href="https://t.co/opvwooB76q">pic.twitter.com/opvwooB76q</a>
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So why didn&#8217;t a film like that experience more success Sunday night?
Its critics would say that the film is too pro-America, too anti-Chinese, and too pro-military. All things that Hollywood — Hollyweird as some people like to call it — despise.
To admit that a masculine movie of that caliber is popular — unifying even — would be to admit that the American people do not welcome their message — no matter how hard they try.
Detractors would say that the film is simply Pentagon propaganda. Maybe so. But that&#8217;s still more fun than the woke propaganda we typically get out of Tinseltown.
Better yet, everybody going into the movie understood what they were getting — an entertaining experience displaying good ol&#8217; U-S-of-A bravado. That is a better sell than the usual mental rot of diversity, equity, and inclusion snuck into movies, if not the central plot device.
Again, that lesson can never be outright admitted in Hollywood; Dissent is never tolerated by the Left. As documented in numerous instances, if you dissent and offer even a semi-conservative viewpoint, then you are treated like an outcast.
Yet thanks to the near-universal praise of &#8220;Maverick&#8221; from outside leftist circles, Hollywood execs were reminded that &#8220;there’s money on the table&#8221; for movies such as &#8220;Maverick,&#8221; The Federalist&#8217;s Emily Jashinsky <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/13/the-top-gun-oscars-too-little-too-late/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">observed</a>. As she put it, Hollywood was reminded of the &#8220;monocultural magic&#8221; films can hold and their ability to attract customers.
As a result, the Oscars show was relatively scant on politics. The entire gambit, Jashisnky concluded, might be too late to save the industry.
Whether that is true remains to be seen.
Yet, one thing that is evident is that, like so many industries <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-a-chance-atlantic-writer-begs-for-pandemic-amnesty-forgiveness-for-pandemic-tyranny" target="_blank" rel="noopener">infected by leftist politics</a>, Hollywood cannot humble itself to admit that it has failed because of its ideology. For now, it seems that if wokeness is going to end in Hollywood, it will go out not with a bang, but with a whimper.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

LONDON, ENGLAND – MAY 19: Tom Cruise attends the Royal Film Performance and UK Premiere of “Top Gun: Maverick” at Leicester Square on May 19, 2022 in London, England.

Why The Oscars Can’t Give ‘Top Gun’ Too Much Credit For ‘Saving Hollywood’s A**’

Why The Oscars Can't Give 'Top Gun' Too Much Credit For 'Saving Hollywood's A**'

Hollywood

Leftism

Movies

Oscars

In the wake of the fury surrounding the woke alteration of famed author Roald Dahl’s classic books, the author of the “Goosebumps” series, which trails only J.K. Rowling’s &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; book series in sales among children’s books, pointed out that his publisher censored his work without his permission.
“Goosebumps” author R.L. Stine reacted after The Times initially <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/goosebumps-author-horror-books-rewritten-2023-95k6kjmp0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that he had joined Scholastic to edit his books as part of a 2018 ebook re-release, and over 100 edits had been made. The Times later corrected the error, acknowledging the books “were changed without his knowledge.”
“The stories aren’t true. I’ve never changed a word in Goosebumps. Any changes were never shown to me,” Stine replied when a reader deplored the changes.
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Lindsey, the stories aren’t true. I’ve never changed a word in Goosebumps. Any changes were never shown to me.
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Scholastic <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11832703/Childrens-horror-author-R-L-Stine-accuses-Scholastic-censoring-books.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued a statement</a> saying, “For more than 30 years, the Goosebumps series has brought millions of kids to reading through humor with just the right amount of scary. Scholastic takes its responsibility seriously to continue bringing this classic adolescent brand to each new generation.”
“When re-issuing titles several years ago, Scholastic reviewed the text to keep the language current and avoid imagery that could negatively impact a young person&#8217;s view of themselves today, with a particular focus on mental health,” Scholastic concluded.
Some of the edits made by Scholastic include “cheerful” instead of “plump,” removing villains making victims “slaves,” removing a reference to wolf-whistling, and removing descriptions of one character as looking like a “bowling ball” and having “squirrel cheeks.”
Sixty-two books were published in the original series, and the 2015 film &#8220;Goosebumps,&#8221; starring Jack Black, made $158 million at the box office. In the 1990s, the &#8220;Goosebumps&#8221; books sold roughly four million copies a month when they were at their hottest.
The publisher of Roald Dahl, who wrote “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Matilda,” “James and the Giant Peach,” and “The BFG,” among other works, collaborated with the Roald Dahl Story Co., which manages the works’ copyright and trademarks, to make hundreds of alterations in order not to offend anyone with Dahl’s original works.
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The Roald Dahl Story Co. admitted they had worked with Inclusive Minds, which monitors children’s literature for inclusion, diversity, and accessibility, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/02/19/roald-dahl-books-revisions-salman-rushdie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/17/roald-dahl-books-rewritten-offensive-matilda-witches-twits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegraph</a> illuminated some of the changes made to Dahl’s books, and their report caused author Salman Rushdie, himself the subject of an Iranian death warrant for his work, to tweet, “Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship. Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed.”

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A middle school in a woke Virginia school district sent a <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11833027/Woke-Virginia-school-bans-white-Asian-students-applying-college-prep-program.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to parents offering college preparation classes urging black and Hispanic students to apply, but ignored white and Asian students.
“Do you have an 8th grader who WANTS to go to college?” the letter, which was sent to parents on March 1, asked. “Do they fall into one or more of these categories?” The deadline for application was March 10.
“Black or African American” and “Hispanic students, of one or more race” were listed, along with students who would be the first in their family to go to college in the U.S., students with disabilities, English learners, and economically disadvantaged students.
“If you do, PLEASE APPLY for Fairfax County’s Partnership Program,” the letter urged. “A typical CCP student represents a traditionally underrepresented population in higher education.”
“In the 20th century, Asian Exclusion Act denied Asians equal opportunities,” former Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Nomani noted. “Now @FCPSNews promotes a college prep program with race-based admissions, excluding Asians + whites. A judge already ruled FCPS violated US Constitution in new anti-Asian admissions.”
Nomani also pointed out, “The perks also include monetary rewards: ‘A summer experiential learning opportunity (you actually visit a college and stay on their campus!).’”
“This program excludes children based on race, and it seems to be in direct violation of the school district’s own anti-discrimination policy.” Glenn Miller, an attorney whose child is in the school system, told <a href="https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/new-asian-exclusion-act-pops-up-in-fcps-program/article_58d6ac88-bc68-11ed-a99f-3bb8fa2182a9.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fairfax Times</a>.
Asian students comprise 19% of the 181,447 students, school district data tabulated in February revealed; the 666,263 white students comprise 37% of the total student population.
“No applicant or employee on the basis of, of race, sex, color, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, pregnancy status, childbirth or related medical conditions, marital status, veteran status, and disability shall be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under, any education program or activity, as required by law,” the Fairfax School District&#8217;s anti-discrimination policy states.
In 2021, the Fairfax County School District <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/fairfax-school-district-sends-educators-powerpoint-on-how-to-implement-critical-race-theory-in-the-classroom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent a PowerPoint</a> to teachers explaining how to implement Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the classroom.
Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) district sent out a resource — intended to be a “teacher facing item” — which defined Critical Race Theory, explaining how to implement the ideologies in the classroom. Examples included “culturally relevant pedagogy,” “institutional/systemic racism,” “anti-racism education,” “anti-hate education,” and more.
“In adopting this approach, CRT scholars attempt to understand how victims of systemic racism are affected by cultural perceptions of race and how they are able to represent themselves to counter prejudice,” the PowerPoint read.

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<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/banks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Santander Bank</a> Executive Chair Ana Botin discussed the company’s decision to prioritize moving more <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">women</a> into senior leadership positions.
The retail banking company, which is based in Boston and owned by the Santander Group in Spain, recently committed to ensuring that one-third of leadership roles would be occupied by female employees. “We’re making a huge effort but we have to do it the right way,” Botin said in an <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/08/santanders-ana-botin-rotating-roles-will-help-women-get-to-the-top-.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with CNBC published Wednesday. “But we also have to accelerate and so we’re putting in place plans to actually make that happen faster.”
Among the plans include rotating female employees through roles “which tend to be occupied by men” such that the women are more likely to rise in the company. “Basically having some kind of rule or incentive,” Botin continued, “so that you move people around faster so that women can have experiences that allow them to get to the top.”
Increasing the percentage of females in leadership positions is a goal often pursued by companies devoted to diversity, equity, and inclusion, also known as DEI, as well as the environmental, social, and corporate governance movement, commonly known as ESG.
David Bahnsen, the founder of Manhattan-based wealth management firm The Bahnsen Group, told The Daily Wire that leadership quotas for females risk delegitimizing women who qualify for the roles by their own merit. “Why should a talented female executive be held in suspicion of being a forced hire when her talents and capabilities can speak for themselves?” he noted.
Santander nevertheless touted its female leadership quotas in a Wednesday <a href="https://www.santander.com/en/stories/committed-to-women" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> meant to commemorate International Women’s Day; the firm has maintained between 40% and 60% of female representation on its board of directors for the past two years in accordance with previous ESG <a href="https://www.santander.com/content/dam/santander-com/en/documentos/esg-presentation/2022/do-esg-presentacion-2022-en.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commitments</a>, which also included financing the development of electric vehicles and mobilizing billions of euros in support of a transition toward renewable energy sources.
Proponents of female leadership quotas claim that firms which institute such policies tend to be more profitable, an assertion that Bahnsen and other skeptics dispute. “If there were such a connection, why not hire 100% females? It is a non-serious attempt performed in a non-serious matter,” he continued. “No one believes that profitability can be measured and assessed in a causative manner around things like gender. The very suggestion is sexist on its face.”
Critics of the ESG movement assert that the investment philosophy mingles political and social causes, such as diversifying company leadership with respect to race or sex, in a manner that compromises or distracts from profitability. ESG funds <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virtue-signaling-isnt-free-how-woke-investing-fell-apart-once-the-economy-got-bad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suffered</a> amid last year’s underperformance among technology firms, which ESG managers tend to favor because of their emphasis on corporate social responsibility and internal workforce diversity, and overperformance among energy companies, which ESG managers tend to shirk because of their dislike for industries with heavy carbon emissions.
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Bahnsen concluded that firms that recruit and promote in accordance with the merit of the candidates will see the best results in the long run. “A company focused on hiring the best candidates, which in a world of only two genders will always feature some percentage of men and some percentage of women, will perform the best,” he said. “I am more and more convinced that these sorts of quota-based gender and race pronouncements are an attempt to pacify the critics of a market economy by appealing to a side hustle of the woke left. Companies that announce such intent and criteria are performing an overt act of marketing and pharisaism and nothing else.”

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Kid Rock got everyone&#8217;s attention on Monday when he shared news on his Instagram that he will be headlining several concerts this summer as part of his &#8220;No Snowflakes Summer Concerts.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kid-rock">52-year-old</a> rocker <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpc-6_nOIEV/">posted</a> an image of a poster from Live Nation that detailed four arena concerts starting in June and going through July — and each show would feature a different special guest.
He captioned the post, &#8220;KID ROCK ANNOUNCES FOUR 2023 ARENA DATES. THE FOUR-CITY LIMITED RUN WILL FEATURE DIFFERENT SPECIAL GUESTS ON EACH NIGHT: CHRIS JANSON, MARCUS KING, TRAVIS TRITT, AND GRAND FUNK RAILROAD.&#8221;
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The post included information that pre-sale tickets will be available starting March 7, with general sales opening Friday, March 10. More information can be located on his <a href="https://kidrock.com/blogs/news/kid-rock-announces-four-2023-arena-dates">website</a>.
The concerts start in June in Austin, Texa, at the Moody Center, followed by one in Ft. Worth at the Dickies Arena. In July, the singer — whose given name is Robert Ritchie — will entertain fans in Nashville, Tennessee, at the Bridgestone Arena before ending the concert series in his home state in Detroit at Little Caesars Arena.
The outspoken <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/7-country-singers-who-remain-unashamed-conservatives">conservative country singer</a> recently slammed &#8220;dumb liberals&#8221; — whom he said had moved to red states and brought their &#8220;effing politics&#8221; with them — when he mounted an effort to prevent the former home of late-legendary country music star Hank Williams from being destroyed, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dumb-liberals-kid-rock-slams-lefties-moving-to-red-states-and-bringing-their-effing-politics-with-them">reported</a>.
&#8220;We are sick of seeing history torn to the ground,&#8221; Ritchie said. &#8220;Whether it be in the form of monuments, statues, and now something so important here in Nashville, like the former home of Hank Williams, Beechwood Hall. … Where does this end?&#8221;
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&#8220;We kind of knew that from the beginning, once this fiasco started that it was never going to end,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And now we kind of feel like we&#8217;re under an invasion from the state of California, which we understand in a lot of ways. I have a lot of friends here that come from these spots — California and New York City.&#8221;
&#8220;A lot of people say it, and they say it under their breath, but they&#8217;re scared to say it out loud,&#8221; Kid Rock continued. &#8220;So, once again, I&#8217;ll be the guy: They come here leaving these woke policies from those cities for better schools, lower taxes, lower crime. You have talked about it a million times. We kind of tell them to leave your effing politics at the state line from where you&#8217;re coming. And this is just one more example.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dumb-liberals-kid-rock-slams-lefties-moving-to-red-states-and-bringing-their-effing-politics-with-them">&#8216;Dumb Liberals&#8217;: Kid Rock Slams Lefties Moving To Red States And Bringing Their &#8216;Effing Politics&#8217; With Them</a>

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A top official at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democratic-national-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic National Committee</a> (DNC) on Saturday attacked critics of “woke” ideology as “anti-black.”
Lindy Li, the women’s co-chair and mid-Atlantic regional chair at the DNC, appeared on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/msnbc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MSNBC</a> over the weekend to attack conservatives and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cpac" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Conservative Political Action Conference</a> (CPAC) that took place last week.
“Let’s be clear what anti-woke means. It’s anti-black. And I think people are very reluctant to say it, but I don’t mince any words, and that’s the truth. That&#8217;s their way of, you know, sounding the dog whistle without being extremely explicit,” Li said.
“Woke” as it is currently used refers to leftist policy and ideas, such as Critical Race Theory, transgender ideology, social justice, and political correctness. Many on the political Right use the term to denigrate policies that aim at speech censorship or equity, such as editing books for “sensitivity” or affirmative action policies that take race into account.
Defenders of “woke” policies say they are necessary to help disadvantaged groups.
Li also targeted a series of high-profile Republicans, CPAC, and the American Conservative Union (ACU).
“Let’s also not ignore the fact that CPAC has become a gathering of sexual predators,” Li said, before targeting ACU chairman Matt Schlapp and a group of conservative lawmakers over allegations of misconduct leveled against them — which have yet to be proved.
Li called former President Donald Trump, who delivered a keynote address at CPAC, a “serial rapist.”
“And then finally tonight, we have Trump, a serial rapist. And so this is the party that claims to be the party of Christian family values, and I have nothing to say or do but laugh at that,” Li said.
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After Li’s comment, the host of the show paused for several awkward moments before clarifying the network’s position on Li’s allegation against Trump and the others.
“I just want to be clear here, though, that it’s important to put out there that we understand the accusations that have been made, of course, against the former president,” the host said. “But I want to be clear, of course, that none of that has actually rung true as of yet. They’ve all been accusations, so far.”
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I dropped some truth bombs about the (alleged) sexual predators at CPAC and what &quot;anti-woke&quot; really means
It may not be pretty but this is the unvarnished truth
Please share widely
Huge thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/yasminv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@yasminv</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/YasminMSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YasminMSNBC</a> for having me on! Warm shoutout to my friend <a href="https://twitter.com/only1deja_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@only1deja_</a> <a href="https://t.co/AMdjt00t8r">pic.twitter.com/AMdjt00t8r</a>
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Li is a Democratic Party partisan who at times has found herself the target of ire from the Left. She resigned her position as treasurer of the Pennsylvania Young Democrats in 2020 after making a series of social media posts critical of self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont (I).
“This is like Bernie Bro behavior in real life,” said Li, blaming aggressive behavior by Sanders supporters for her departure. “I wasn’t always like this. They drove me to this.”

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<a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/jeremys-chocolate/products/jeremys-traditional-bundle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremy&#8217;s Chocolate</a>, the new business line founded by Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing in response to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boycott-hersheys-trends-on-twitter-as-brand-features-man-who-identifies-as-trans-in-international-womens-day-campaign" target="_blank" rel="noopener">woke stunt by Hershey&#8217;s</a>, has sold 300,000 non-woke candy bars less than two days after it was launched.
The chocolate bars, which come in two varieties, were created after Hershey&#8217;s rolled out an International Women&#8217;s Day marketing campaign that featured a man who identifies as a woman as one of its spokespersons. Boreing promptly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nuts-or-nutless-the-daily-wire-launches-jeremys-chocolates-after-hersheys-trans-farce-insults-customers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entered the chocolate business</a>, and, in a rebuke of Hershey&#8217;s, made clear The Daily Wire would not compromise on the definition of womanhood.
“Fine, I’ll do it,” Boreing tweeted. “Introducing Jeremy’s Chocolate. Yes, it’s real. We have two kinds: HeHim and SheHer. One of them has nuts. If you need me to tell you which one, keep buying Hershey’s. But if you know what a woman is and love chocolate, go to: <a href="http://www.ihatehersheys.com/">ihatehersheys.com</a>.”
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Fine. I’ll do it.
Introducing Jeremy’s Chocolate.
Yes, it’s real.
We have two kinds: HeHim and SheHer.
One of them has nuts. If you need me to tell you which one, keep buying Hersheys.
But if you know what a woman is and love chocolate, go to:<a href="https://t.co/QVnCwoBu17">https://t.co/QVnCwoBu17</a> <a href="https://t.co/o5P6Vqj01l">https://t.co/o5P6Vqj01l</a>
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The Daily Wire has built a reputation for big responses to woke corporations and institutions. In January 2021, the company signed Gina Carano to produce and star in “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/terror-on-the-prairie">Terror on the Prairie</a>” after she was canceled by Disney. And in March of last year, Boreing launched <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremy&#8217;s Razors</a> in response to Harry&#8217;s Razors publicly declaring they would pull ads from The Daily Wire in response to a Daily Wire host articulating traditional views on gender.
“The people asked and we answered,” Boreing said. “Thanks to Jeremy’s Chocolate, you can stop eating chocolate that hates you. Harry’s Razors hates you; Disney hates you; and now Hershey’s hates you. As long as corporations and institutions across America continue to alienate half the country, The Daily Wire will continue building alternatives. Stop giving your money to woke chocolate companies that hate you.”
Boreing previously revealed that more than 100,000 chocolate bars had been sold in the first 12 hours of launch.
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Twelve hours, 100,000 bars of chocolate.
⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a>⁩ is breaking the cycle of lose, bitch, and boycott and is instead creating actual alternatives.
Thank you for building the future with us. <a href="https://t.co/QVnCwoBu17">https://t.co/QVnCwoBu17</a> <a href="https://t.co/F22ZSrBucG">pic.twitter.com/F22ZSrBucG</a>
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The Daily Wire also published an ad for Jeremy’s Chocolate featuring Boreing and Daily Wire hosts Brett Cooper and Michael Knowles.
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Many Twitter users were astonished at the speed with which The Daily Wire was able to launch Jeremy’s Chocolate.
“That was fast,” journalist and podcaster Tim Pool tweeted.
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“22 hours ago the Hershey Chocolate company used a trans person in an ad… less than a day later the Daily Wire launched their own chocolate company,” radio host Kenny Webster wondered. “Did… did they know ahead of time about the ad?”
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22 hours ago the Hershey Chocolate company used a trans person in an ad&#8230; less than a day later the Daily Wire launched their own chocolate company.
Did&#8230; did they know ahead of time about the ad? <a href="https://t.co/izbPWrxE6M">https://t.co/izbPWrxE6M</a>
— Kenny Webster (@KennethRWebster) <a href="https://twitter.com/KennethRWebster/status/1631715109507670016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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But Boreing confirmed that he worked through the night Thursday to get the product off the ground. “We did not know,” he tweeted. “We just stayed up all night for the love of the game. And the country. And chocolate. <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/jeremys-chocolate/products/jeremys-traditional-bundle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ihatehersheys.com</a>.”
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We did not know. We just stayed up all night for the love of the game.
And the country.
And chocolate.<a href="https://t.co/QVnCwoBu17">https://t.co/QVnCwoBu17</a> <a href="https://t.co/8nqNIp8PTw">https://t.co/8nqNIp8PTw</a>
— Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1631719513833046016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration&#8217;s</a> nominee to head up the Federal Aviation Administration has an extensive history of pushing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, according to a memo obtained by The Daily Wire.
Phil Washington, Biden&#8217;s nominee to head up the FAA, is the CEO of the Denver International Airport and previously served as the CEO of the Los Angeles Metro Transit Authority. During his tenure as CEO of L.A. Metro, Washington pushed an aggressive DEI agenda, while allegedly engaging in discriminatory behavior himself.
Beginning in 2020, as CEO of L.A. Metro, Washington used the COVID pandemic to push for the city&#8217;s transit system to stop charging fares, saying it had a moral duty to do so despite L.A. Metro&#8217;s increasingly dire financial straits. “LA Metro has a moral obligation to pursue a fareless system and help our region recover from both a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic and the devastating effects of the lack of affordability in the region,” Washington said at the time, via transportation magazine <a href="https://www.itsinternational.com/its17/news/la-considers-free-public-transit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ITS International</a>.
But even at the time, L.A. Metro was struggling to make ends meet. ITS International reported that in 2019, the system made between $250 and $300 million in fares, against an operating budget of $1.9 billion; a fares-to-cost ratio of about 13%. That rate had been declining for 20 years and would continue to decline as operating costs rose, Metro noted. But instead of increasing revenues, Washington planned to use federal grants and advertising to fill the farebox gap, claiming that public transit is “no different than other public programs funded by the public purse such as firefighting, policing and other public infrastructure that serves as a public right and common good.&#8221;
Washington touted his equity priorities in a <a href="https://thesource.metro.net/2020/06/10/metro-statement-on-black-lives-matter-and-our-commitment-to-fighting-racial-injustice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter to Metro staff</a> in 2020, reacting to the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and Philando Castile. &#8220;The hallmark of my tenure at Metro has been ensuring equity both in the services we provide to the community and within our agency,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;This has been evidenced by my standing up an Office of Race and Equity, advancing the Equity Platform and ensuring diversity on my senior leadership team.&#8221;
At an <a href="http://libraryarchives.metro.net/DB_Attachments/200702_Employee%20Town%20Hall%20Questions%20Final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">employee town hall</a> later in the year, Washington made his DEI agenda very clear. In response to one employee question, Washington said that not identifying people by their races &#8220;can actually be discriminatory in that while people want to simply call everyone the human race, it erases part of people’s identities and histories that are very much tied to lived experiences.&#8221;
He also claimed that a colorblind society ignores the lived experience of black people and other minority groups. &#8220;It feels like an unwillingness to recognize that there is systemic racism, that black people have been oppressed,&#8221; he said. Washington told another employee that systemic racism exists at L.A. Metro, and touted the corporate offices and initiatives intended to address systemic racism among riders and employees. Another employee demanded that the company affirm the statement, &#8220;Black Lives Matter!!!&#8221;
&#8220;I agree!&#8221; Washington replied. &#8220;I might add too that all lives cannot matter, until Black Lives Matter first.&#8221;
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One employee asked Metro to implement a mandatory &#8220;undoing racism&#8221; training across the entire agency. &#8220;Yes!&#8221; Washington responded enthusiastically, adding that the training was one of the goals of the then-newly-created Diversity &amp; Inclusion Unit.
Despite all of the efforts he put forth at L.A. Metro, it seems that Washington might be a hypocrite. He was involved in a discrimination investigation during his tenure at the agency; according to a <a href="https://wordpress.bidennoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Woolley-Report-Section-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from one of the attorneys in the investigation, he was involved in an &#8220;informal networking group&#8221; called &#8220;Chicken Bone.&#8221; The group is men-only, and excludes white men.
Furthermore, during his tenure at L.A. Metro, Alex Wiggins, L.A. Metro&#8217;s Chief System Security and Law Enforcement Officer, was investigated for creating a hostile work environment. A letter from the <a href="https://wordpress.bidennoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Alex-Z.-Wiggins-Workplace-Reatilation-In-The-Work-Place-Sustained-Letter_-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles County Counsel</a> said that Wiggins led a department &#8220;riven with racial tensions, cutthroat competition among managers, extremely low morale and serious rifts between employees and managers.&#8221;
The FAA and the aviation industry are already under heavy fire for pushing DEI at the expense of efficiency and safety. In January, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/faas-woke-garbage-resurfaces-after-computer-issues-ground-planes-nationwide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the FAA endorsed woke ideology and pushed LGBTQ representation; those internal communications resurfaced after a computer system outage that grounded all flights on January 11. Last week, Fox News host <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBzc0xoUDKg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tucker Carlson</a> blasted the aviation industry for pushing woke diversity policies in hiring and training pilots, which he said contributed to at least one major plane crash.
Editor’s note: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated George Floyd was shot. It has been corrected.

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Biden's FAA Nominee Phil Washington Aggressively Pushed Woke DEI Policies At LA Metro, While His Agency Was Investigated For Discrimination

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