One person was shot and injured Thursday in northern New Mexico at a protest over a statue of a Spanish conquistador.
A man was rushed to the hospital after gunfire broke out in the city of Española at a protest against installing a statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate. Española is about 25 miles north of Santa Fe.
Authorities took the suspected shooter, Ryan Martinez, 23, into custody and said they are not looking for any other suspects in connection with the shooting.
The shooting <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/juan-de-onate-shooting-new-mexico-statue-spanish-conquistador-espanola/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">happened</a> just before 12:30 p.m. local time outside the county&#8217;s offices, Rio Arriba County Sheriff Billy Merrifield said.
The suspect had <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/29/protest-in-new-mexico-over-statue-of-spanish-conquistador-juan-de-onate-leaves-one-shot/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> been told to leave by police after getting into a verbal altercation with protesters and using obscene language.
In cell phone video footage of the moments leading up to the shooting, the suspect is seen returning to the protest and jumping over a short wall as several protesters try to grab him.
“Hey, hey, hey. Let him go!” one person shouts.
The suspect breaks free and jumps over the wall one more time, then pulls out a handgun and fires one shot into the group of people.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/ABQJournal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABQJournal</a> photographer <a href="https://twitter.com/EddieMoore8?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EddieMoore8</a> captures this photo of the shooter at the rally against a Juan de Oñate statue in northern New Mexico. Here&#39;s what we know: <a href="https://t.co/CZra8YWLtR">https://t.co/CZra8YWLtR</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/breakingnews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#breakingnews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/newmexico?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#newmexico</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/shooting?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#shooting</a> <a href="https://t.co/qZhles3MW8">pic.twitter.com/qZhles3MW8</a>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: New video shows the moments leading up the shooting at the Juan de Oñate statue protest outside the Rio Arribia County building. <a href="https://twitter.com/KOB4?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KOB4</a> <a href="https://t.co/6aCoJLpBlF">pic.twitter.com/6aCoJLpBlF</a>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NEW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NEW</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VIDEO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#VIDEO</a> shows what led to shooting at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnateStatue?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OnateStatue</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/protest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#protest</a> in Rio Arriba County. Go to :30 mark. One suspect in custody &#8211; no update on victim&#39;s condition. <a href="https://twitter.com/KOB4?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KOB4</a> <a href="https://t.co/ywngiFWhWX">pic.twitter.com/ywngiFWhWX</a>
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Afterwards, the suspect can be seen in the video running away across a parking lot as several people chase him. Screaming can be heard in the background.
The victim was shot in the upper torso, and his condition was unknown as of Thursday, the sheriff&#8217;s spokesperson said.
&#8220;Once again, the saddest part about this is we have another incident of gun violence,&#8221; Merrifield <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/29/protest-in-new-mexico-over-statue-of-spanish-conquistador-juan-de-onate-leaves-one-shot/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at a news briefing on the incident.
The previous day, county officials had postponed installing the statue over concerns it would cause backlash that could lead to safety concerns, but protesters still showed up. Merrifield said he had written to county commissioners last week warning them about his safety concerns with erecting the statue outside the county building.
&#8220;I&#8217;m very grateful for that, and they made the decision to not do it, with all the safety concerns that have risen from this,&#8221; the sheriff <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/juan-de-onate-shooting-new-mexico-statue-spanish-conquistador-espanola/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
The New Mexico State Police is heading the investigation into the shooting.
Oñate is a controversial figure in New Mexico&#8217;s history. He is known for founding early Spanish settlements in the late 1500s, but he is also <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180925220604/http://www.pbs.org/pov/lastconquistador/background/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notorious</a> for the Acoma Massacre, Oñate&#8217;s brutal retaliation against the men, women, and children of a Native American tribe that had killed 13 Spaniards including Oñate&#8217;s nephew. He was later <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180925220604/http://www.pbs.org/pov/lastconquistador/background/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> of excessive cruelty to both natives and colonists.
In 1997, protesters <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/us/statue-foot-new-mexico.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sawed off</a> the right foot on a bronze statue of Oñate in New Mexico, a reference to Oñate&#8217;s order that Acoma men have their right foot amputated. In June, 2020, a similar incident occurred in Albuquerque when a man <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protester-shot-new-mexico-conquistador-juan-de-onate-statue-albuquerque/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was shot</a> as protesters tried to tear down a bronze statue of Oñate outside the Albuquerque Museum. After that shooting, the city said the statue would be removed until officials figure out next steps.
In recent years, statues of other historical figures with a range of legacies have been targeted with vandalism including Christopher <a href="https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/10/christopher-columbus-memorial-vandalized-with-genocider-spray-paint.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbus</a>, Confederate general Robert E. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/876124924/in-richmond-va-protestors-transform-a-confederate-statue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lee</a>, and Saint Junipero <a href="https://www.ktvu.com/news/protest-over-das-decision-to-reduce-charges-in-junipero-serra-statue-vandalism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Serra</a>.

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We have some good news and some bad news. 
We’ll get the bad news out of the way first: Yet another razor company has decided to embrace radical gender ideology and force so-called “gender-affirming care” down its consumers’ throats.
This time, it’s Braun — the Procter &amp; Gamble-owned razor company that was founded by Max Braun in 1921 and was characterized in part by its “progressive ideas,” according to its <a href="https://us.braun.com/en-us/About/Why-Braun" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>. 
Oh, the company still has some “progressive” ideas, all right. 
Or perhaps the better word nowadays is “transgressive” — as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-rise-of-the-transgressives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained by Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro</a>. In the year 2023, Braun is endorsing the idea that women can become men, and that surgeries that remove body parts are something worth promoting.
On Wednesday, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-razor-company-slammed-after-showcasing-trans-model-with-chest-scars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the U.K. branch of the grooming company has <a href="https://www.braunshop.co.uk/hybrid-trimmers.list" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured</a> a woman identifying as a man to model the company’s Series X hybrid trimmers. The female model appears to have undergone a double mastectomy, a procedure frequently done when women who identify as men have their breasts removed to look less feminine.
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Critics have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-razor-company-slammed-after-showcasing-trans-model-with-chest-scars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outraged on social medi</a>a — and while the ad might be shocking, it isn&#8217;t necessarily surprising. 
P&amp;G has been known for pushing some not-so-PG-rated themes across its range of products. For example, Braun’s sister company Gillette released an ad in 2019 that features a father helping his child named “Samson” — a female “transitioning” into a male — shave for the first time.
The Gillette ad is replete with suggestions and language that the teenager featured is actually becoming a man. Except, “Samson” is a female.
Keep in mind, Gillette’s tagline is “The Best A Man Can Get.”
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P&amp;G’s wokeness doesn’t end there. 
As reported on Thursday, it’s awash in corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Last year, the company <a href="https://www.pg.co.uk/blogs/trans-day-of-visibility/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a testimony from a male employee talking about the medical procedures he underwent to look more feminine. He spoke of going through facial electrolysis (a process to remove facial hair) and using bandages and “compression tops” to “bind” his newly feminized chest to hide his “transition.” Another brand <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/people-with-female-sex-organs-major-feminine-product-makers-latest-attack-on-girls-and-women" target="_blank" rel="noopener">owned</a> by the company has referred to women as “people with female sex organs” in literature intended to guide teenagers through puberty.
So if the bad news is that one of the largest multinational consumer goods corporations in the entire world is hellbent on making its customers support these ideas that run contrary to conservative values, what is the good news?
Here it is: <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/all" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremy’s</a> exists so you don’t have to give your money to companies that hate your values.
Jeremy’s knows what a man is. Jeremy’s knows what a woman is. And <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/all" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeremy’s</a> knows that when it comes to shaving, the only thing that should be disposable are the razor blades — such as Jeremy’s Precision 5  + One year of blade refills bundle. Now, at a discount price. <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/all/products/precision-5-one-year-of-blade-refills-v2?selling_plan=3042836693" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Purchase here.</a> 
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Disposing of certain body parts doesn’t change your gender, and any company that refutes the biological, spiritual, and physical differences certainly isn’t the best a man — or woman — can get. 
We have other positive news — if you’re not planning on shaving anytime soon, Jeremy’s offers a range of soaps, shampoos, and hair and body products. <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">All are available to buy here.</a>
When Jeremy’s first launched, founder Jeremy Boreing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-launches-razor-company-takes-aim-at-woke-harrys-razors?target_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fdaily-wire-launches-razor-company-takes-aim-at-woke-harrys-razors%3Futm_source%3Dfacebook%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_campaign%3Dbenshapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said that</a> the Left, “is happy to bifurcate the culture, ripping it in two. They’re convinced there will be no economic consequences for this because, as I said, you need their products.”
That could explain why P&amp;G keeps pushing this agenda. How do conservatives and non-woke individuals build a future that competes with such a force?
Well, as Boreing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-launches-razor-company-takes-aim-at-woke-harrys-razors?target_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fdaily-wire-launches-razor-company-takes-aim-at-woke-harrys-razors%3Futm_source%3Dfacebook%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_campaign%3Dbenshapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a>, “So, to win, we have to rip the economy in two. We have to give conservatives their own companies and their own products to buy. We have to build market alternatives that, in success, will force the Left to take real losses if they don’t compete directly for our business.”
Buy your own products <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/">here</a> and hit the woke where it hurts — their bottom line.
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Boston University announced Wednesday that it would conduct an &#8220;inquiry&#8221; into Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-is-critical-race-theory-breaking-down-the-ideology-thats-hitting-schools-across-the-country">Antiracist</a> Research amid complaints about its culture.
The inquiry will be a broader version of a previous &#8220;examination,&#8221; looking at the center&#8217;s grant management practices, a spokesperson for Boston University <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/20/metro/following-layoffs-boston-university-announces-inquiry-into-ibram-kendis-antiracist-center/#:~:text=By%20Mike%20Damiano%20and%20Hilary,%2C%202023%2C%209%3A13%20p.m.&amp;text=Boston%20University%20announced%20Wednesday%20it,center%27s%20culture%20and%20financial%20management." target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Boston Globe.
The inquiry also comes shortly after layoffs at the center. Kendi recently laid off about 20 employees, more than half the center&#8217;s staff, the university <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ibram-x-kendis-center-antiracist-research-lays-off-staff-members-boston-university-confirms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> last week.
Kendi, a prominent critical race theory scholar, has become an influential voice on &#8220;antiracism&#8221; over the last several years, especially after his book, &#8220;How to Be an Antiracist,&#8221; became a New York Times bestseller in 2020 in the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death.
He has drawn criticism for promoting the theory that all racial disparities are due to racism. Kendi has also faced criticism for his book &#8220;Antiracist Baby,&#8221; a children&#8217;s picture book that introduces children to the concept of antiracism.
The Center for Antiracist Research was established in June 2020, just days after Floyd&#8217;s death, when Kendi was hired as a history professor at Boston University. Since then, the center has raised tens of millions of dollars from donors.
The center managed to accomplish certain projects, such as teaming up with The Boston Globe to <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/the-emancipator/?p1=Article_Inline_Text_Link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launch</a> a digital publication called The Emancipator. However, many other projects have gone uncompleted, such as a Racial Data Tracker, which would be &#8220;the nation’s largest online database of racial inequity data in the United States.&#8221;
The center “was just being mismanaged on a really fundamental level,” Phillipe Copeland, a Boston University professor who worked at the center, told the Globe.
Copeland skewered the center in a Facebook post on Sunday, saying the layoffs amount to &#8220;employment violence and trauma.&#8221;
&#8220;Boston University needs to explain how one of its premier Centers ended up in this situation and how mass layoffs are ‘antiracist.’ This act of employment violence and trauma is not just about individual leaders. It&#8217;s about the cultures and systems that allow it to occur,&#8221; Copeland <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/boston-univ-professor-calls-layoffs-ibram-x-kendis-antiracism-center-employment-violence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on Sunday.
“I don’t know where the money is,” <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/20/metro/following-layoffs-boston-university-announces-inquiry-into-ibram-kendis-antiracist-center/#:~:text=By%20Mike%20Damiano%20and%20Hilary,%2C%202023%2C%209%3A13%20p.m.&amp;text=Boston%20University%20announced%20Wednesday%20it,center%27s%20culture%20and%20financial%20management." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Saida Grundy, another Boston University professor who worked at the center.
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Kendi reportedly did not delegate authority, which slowed the center&#8217;s operations.
He was also on leave from the center during the last several months, and when he returned last week, he reportedly laid off about 20 staffers over Zoom, <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/20/metro/following-layoffs-boston-university-announces-inquiry-into-ibram-kendis-antiracist-center/#:~:text=By%20Mike%20Damiano%20and%20Hilary,%2C%202023%2C%209%3A13%20p.m.&amp;text=Boston%20University%20announced%20Wednesday%20it,center%27s%20culture%20and%20financial%20management." target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to one of the professors at the center.
Kendi “takes strong exception to the allegations made in recent complaints and media reports,” the Boston University spokesperson said.
The center&#8217;s scholars have also produced very little research, and the two research papers they have put out have been co-authored with other academics, a Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/ibram-kendis-center-for-antiracist-research-hasnt-produced-any-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> found.
Global health professor Elaine Nsoesie, who <a href="https://www.bu.edu/sph/profile/elaine-nsoesie/#:~:text=Elaine%20Nsoesie%20is%20an%20Associate,University%20Center%20for%20Antiracist%20Research." target="_blank" rel="noopener">leads</a> the Racial Data Tracker project at the center, co-authored a January <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2800557?utm_source=For_The_Media&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=ftm_links&amp;utm_term=011823" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> that concluded that areas with more black residents had more &#8220;dilapidated buildings.&#8221;
Management and organizations professor Sanaz Mobasseri, another <a href="https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/profile/sanaz-mobasseri/#:~:text=Sanaz%20Mobasseri%20is%20an%20Assistant,amongst%20employees%20in%20the%20workplace." target="_blank" rel="noopener">scholar</a> at the center, co-authored a <a href="https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amr.2021.0446" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> that stated, &#8220;We treat White men as the dominant group and Black people as the archetypal subordinate group in U.S. society.&#8221;
How long Boston University&#8217;s probe into the center will take is unclear.

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Longtime Howard Stern listeners grimaced when the shock jock cried, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/f-your-freedom-howard-stern-latest-celeb-to-blast-unvaccinated-say-hospitals-shouldnt-treat-them" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“F*** their freedom”</a> to anyone who didn’t take the COVID vaccine. Radio’s legendary bad boy took the government’s side, casting liberty in the circular file.
Fans figured the man who famously fought the FCC to tell fart jokes on his terms couldn’t sink any lower. Think again.
Stern recently came out of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1813-how-howard-stern-avoided-cancellation-member-exclusive">closet as woke</a>, a descriptor that completes his transformation from radio rebel to progressive scold.
<blockquote>“To me, the opposite of woke is being asleep …and if woke means I can’t get behind [former President Trump], which is what I think it means, or that I support people who want to be transgender, or I’m for the vaccine — dude, call me woke as you f&#8212;ing want … I am woke, motherf&#8212;er. And I love it.”</blockquote>
It’s a stunning about-face given his decades of raucous radio and ability to capture the Id of the nation. And he had no other option, at least if he wanted to keep cashing those sweet SiriusXM checks.
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Stern’s transformation didn’t happen overnight. The talk show titan slowly let go of his sexually outrageous banter, a shift that coincided with growing older. Even hardcore Stern fans might flinch at the 60-something star (he’s 69 now) ogling girls young enough to be his granddaughter.
Everyone grows up. Even the so-called King of All Media (a name he gave himself, and it more or less stuck).
He mended fences with longtime frenemies like Rosie O’Donnell and Kathie Lee Gifford and shared how extensive therapy allowed him to evolve.
The broadcaster doubled down on his signature interviews, leaning into satellite radio’s ability to broadcast indefinitely without a commercial break.
The new, improved Howie had some perks, including a second look from the mainstream media.
Reporters loathed Stern for years, incorrectly predicting his career implosion and framing stories about him in the most negative light possible. He raged against the press portrait on air, but he seemed to draw strength from his enemies.
It was Stern against the world, and his listeners had his back.
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Except Stern started to like it when the media reconsidered his work and legacy. He earned sympathetic notices after opening up about both therapy and a cancer scare. <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/howard-stern-reveals-cancer-scare-trump-regrets-details-a-dishy-new-book-1208773/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The press even feted him</a> when he produced a tome of his best celebrity interviews, “Howard Stern Comes Again.”
He began hobnobbing with celebrities, not berating them from his SiriusXM perch.
Other elements of his broadcast persona morphed as well. His politically ambiguous nature shifted to the Left, becoming both predictable and erratic. He fawned over both Hillary Clinton and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, figures with closets chock full of skeletons.
The old, straight-shooting Stern became a watered-down Rachel Maddow, subservient to liberal power. Suffice it to say he rages against former President Donald Trump, despite the fact that he once regularly invited him into his studio for ribald chats.
The worst part of Stern 2.0? The man who fought for free speech suddenly went silent as Cancel Culture roared into the public’s consciousness. Few were better positioned to address the issue, at least on paper.
Stern had his satellite radio perch, which gave him more freedom than most broadcasters have. He knew the cultural landscape well, having fought to say what he wanted, when he wanted <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4695519" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during the 1990s</a>.
And few talk show hosts knew the comedic mindset better than Stern. He worked for decades alongside comic firecrackers like Artie Lange and Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling. Plus, every significant comedian passed through Stern’s studio over the years, including Jerry Seinfeld, Conan O’Brien, and more.
There’s a catch, though.
Stern’s radio career teems with “problematic” material. Skit after skit. Song parody after song parody. Stern dressed in blackface, used racially insensitive words (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRXPVw9R9bg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even the “n-word”)</a>, and embraced minority stereotypes for yuks.
Day after day. Month after month. Year after year.
And that doesn’t hint at his decades of objectifying women, aggressively coaxing them to remove their clothes in-studio and reveal their most intimate feelings.
All of it on air to titillate the listener and, to use the Left’s language, strip women of their agency. Literally and figuratively.
The mob swiftly came for stars with far less offensive legacies.
Kevin Hart lost the Oscar hosting gig for a single monologue deemed homophobic. “The Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon did an on-air struggle session after his 20-year-old blackface sketch resurfaced following the George Floyd protests.
Stern trumps them all.
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Homeless Jeopardy</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Lesbian Dial-a-Date</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Black Jeopardy</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Guess Who’s the Jew (with Kurt Waldheim, Jr.)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Regular treks to “The Homo Room” with Out of the Closet Stern </li>
</ul>
Any single sketch could get him canceled, let alone an entire career full of inappropriate material.
The <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/howard-stern-blackface-trump-bullying/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">woke mob knocked on Stern’s studio door</a> three years ago, weeks after Floyd’s death. Stern confessed to his thought crimes, claimed he renounced his old material and, shrewdly, blamed Donald Trump, Jr. for pushing the old material to the surface.
Next, he brought up his new, woke bona fides.
<blockquote>“I’m not a hater … I’m excited about gay rights, telling you not to beat up gay people. I’m excited about the changes that are coming out of Black Lives Matter. I think real change might be in the air,” he said before one more odd Trump attack. “If you solve the pandemic, then we can review all my old shows.”</blockquote>
And it worked.
The mob moved on to other targets. They haven&#8217;t gone after him since, and likely never will. The woke mob turns on fellow wokesters last.
Stern still could resist the woke siren song, the cultural movement that essentially devalues his legacy. He could renounce traditional media and go rogue, broadcasting via freer speech platforms like Rumble or follow Joe Rogan to the podcasting realm.
He’d make much less money there, though, and the media’s love for him would evaporate in a New York minute.
Stern made a calculated choice and went woke instead, shattering his legend in the process. 

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Celebrity Sightings In New York City – May 09, 2019

Howard Stern 2.0: Why The Notorious Shock Jock Had No Choice But To Go Woke

Cancel Culture

Celebrities

Covid vaccine

Howard Stern

Readers Pass

General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, insisted that he was not sure what the word “woke” means.
Milley spoke on Sunday with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, who <a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/fzgps/date/2023-09-17/segment/01" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “You talk about how the military is not woke. How the military officers should be reading Karl Marx,” then asked, “Is the U.S. military too woke?”
“No, not at all,” Milley initially responded, then continued, “You know, I&#8217;m not even sure what that word truly means.”
“But I would tell you that the military I see is a military that is exceptionally strong, it&#8217;s powerful, it&#8217;s ready,” Milley declared. “In fact, our readiness rate is — the way we measure readiness is better now than they&#8217;ve been in years.”
“This military is a lot of things, but woke it is not,” Milley claimed. “So, I take exception to that. I think that people say those things for reasons that are their own reasons. But it&#8217;s not true. It&#8217;s not accurate. And it is not to say, by the way, that there is — there is not some things out there that are — could be fit into that category. But I don&#8217;t think it certainly is — it is not a broad-brush description of the U.S. military as it exists today.”
In June 2021, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/highest-ranking-u-s-military-official-defends-teaching-crt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testifying</a> before the House Armed Services Committee on President Biden’s 2022 budget request, Milley defended the reading of Critical Race Theory (CRT) texts by the United States military, asserting, “I&#8217;ve read Mao Tse-Tung; I&#8217;ve read Karl Marx; I&#8217;ve read Lenin. That doesn&#8217;t make me a communist.” Milley claimed he “personally” found it “offensive that we are accusing the United States military, our general officers, our commissioned, non-commissioned officers, of being &#8216;woke&#8217; because we&#8217;re studying some theories that are out there.”
Regarding “white rage,” Milley said, “But I do think it&#8217;s important actually for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read and the United States Military Academy is a university and it is important that we train and we understand, and I want to understand white rage and I&#8217;m white.”
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/United-States-Air-Force-Academy-42.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in September 2022 that Air Force cadets had been instructed not to use gender-specific terms like “Mom” or “Dad” and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-military-forget-mom-dad-use-woke-substitutes-instead-air-force-cadets-told" target="_blank" rel="noopener">replace</a> such terms with words such as “parent” or “caregiver.” That instruction was featured at the Air Force Academy in Colorado as part of cadets’ “Diversity and inclusion (D&amp;I) training.” “Our leaders have deemed D&amp;I a warfighting imperative,” the cadets were told.
In July 2021, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) started by saying to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, “Mr. Secretary, I have received, along with Congressman Crenshaw, several hundred whistleblower complaints about Pentagon extremist and diversity training. I just want to share a small selection of what your troops are saying.”
He followed by citing reports of a military history training session being replaced with mandatory training on police brutality, white privilege, and systemic racism; instructions to a member of Special Operations that “The U.S. Special Operations community is racist”; a general officer telling an Army officer that “the entire U.S. Army is racist”; a midshipman at the Naval Academy attesting that classmates were calling America a “fundamentally racist place” and were not challenged by school administrators; an airman saying their unit was forced into a racist exercise called a “privilege walk”; a Space Force officer saying an African-American servicemember said after the training that she would never have joined the military had she known that it was such a hotbed of racism; and a white airman who said he didn’t sign up to be indoctrinated, then filed separation paperwork. 
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Gen. Mark Milley

Joint Chiefs Of Staff Chairman Milley Protests: I’m Not Sure What Woke Means

Mark Milley

Military

Is Dove soaps trying to be the wokest brand of them all?
From pushing radical gender ideology onto kids, to throwing their weight behind an emerging field known as “fat liberation,” Dove — which is owned by the British-company Unilever — is making waves for all the wrong reasons.
For example, on Thursday, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dove-partners-with-blm-activist-in-fat-liberation-campaign-activist-wrecked-white-student-with-uncorroborated-accusations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Dove has now teamed up with BLM activist Zyahna Bryant to advance “size freedom.” 
Bryant, some readers might remember, became infamous for effectively ruining a white girl’s life based on something Bryant later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-black-woman-accused-a-white-woman-of-threatening-protesters-thats-not-what-happened-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> she didn’t actually hear and the woman never actually said. 
Nowadays, she’s apparently such a hot commodity that international brands are dying to work with her to support certain causes. As explained by Bryant, she believes, “that we should be centering the voices and experiences of the most marginalized people and communities at all times.” 
If you don’t do that, presumably, then you’re discriminating against people of size like Bryant — which hampers their success, or something. 
And you thought you were just being sold a bar of soap!  
If you don’t want to buy all the woke the Left has to offer, purchase bars of soap from Jeremy’s instead. <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/hair" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BUY HERE</a>. 
Jeremy’s wants to sell you woke-free products, but certain corporations want to sell you a crash course into the victimhood mentality that has consumed the Left. 
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That ideology is so pervasive that even buying soap has to be politicized. In fact, if you buy from brands like Dove, your money goes to support woke causes and <a href="https://www.flareproject.org/fellowship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">partner with organizations</a> that support different forms of legislation. Dove proudly acknowledges this. 
“So when I think about what fat liberation looks like, to me, it looks like centering the voices and the experiences of those who live and who maneuver through spaces and institutions in a fat body,” Bryant explained in one video, while explaining that makes Dove a perfect partner in that fight. 
 Here’s who we’re dealing with, so readers can get a good sense of the gravity of the situation:
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Zyahna Bryant ruined a white girl’s life over a non-existent remark
Dove just did a brand partnership with her to support “fat liberation” <a href="https://t.co/7mgaOuXQco">pic.twitter.com/7mgaOuXQco</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1702297504623022384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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What does any of that have to do with personal hygiene? Well, nothing. 
It has everything to do with Dove forcing its values onto you as a consumer.
Indeed, it’s not the first time that Dove has advocated far-Left ideas under the guise of “body positivity.” 
In June 2021, for example, Dove rolled out a new initiative called “<a href="https://assets.unileversolutions.com/v1/45523998.pdf?disposition=inline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Proud To Be Me</a>,” a “new body positivity tool for LGBTQ+ youth, brought to you by the <a href="https://www.dove.com/us/en/dove-self-esteem-project/self-esteem-resources-for-youth-groups/proud-to-be-me.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dove Self-Esteem Project</a>.”
“Let’s help the young people in our lives feel confident and proud of who they are,” Dove’s website confidently states.
That “tool” was targeted at kids between the ages of 11 &#8211; 14 and focused on LGBTQ acceptance. It encouraged individuals to host group conversations with children about sex-changes and sexual orientation.
In the FAQ portion of that document, “leaders” of such conversations were provided an answer to the question, “How do I facilitate the discussion around gender dysphoria and body change vs. acceptance?” 
“Leaders should speak to the fact that the way we choose to express ourselves in the world is a personal decision and there are many options for how people choose to do this,” the document said.
What sort of “options”? Oh, you know, just the life-altering ones with long-lasting and often irreversible consequences:
(&#8230;if someone is considering/has questions about body change, highlight that there are many options including choosing clothing that makes you feel good/comfortable, wearing clothing items like binders, etc. Other people may take hormones and others may choose to get some form of surgery.) (Emphasis added.)
Of course, one has to wonder how Dove can advocate “accepting” your whole body, while also letting minors know that castration and foregoing puberty might make them “proud”  — but that matters not to the woke.
What matters most to woke corporations is perpetuating the notion that power in society is built upon the oppressed vs. the oppressor.
So, in this case, it seems the message from Dove is that, if you’re fat, you will never find contentment unless society changes for you. Losing weight is not an option. Everybody else must change.
If you’re a child who thinks you should be in a different body — make it happen. Only those opposed to your well-being would discourage it, Dove seems to want consumers to believe.
Again, this is a soap company we’re talking about — not the Gender Studies Program at Oberlin College. 
Thankfully, you don’t have to give your money to companies like Dove anymore. You can buy from Jeremy’s Razors. Shampoo and conditioner, body wash, and body soap — all of which are free from parabens, sulfates, Made in the USA, and woke-free products. <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BUY HERE</a>. 
PS: If you buy <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$75 worth of ANY Jeremy’s products</a>, you’ll get a free bar of body soap. 
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Soap Fist

Bodily Mutilation. Fat Liberation. Is This The Wokest Soap Brand In The Nation?

Corporations

Dove

Fat Liberation

Jeremy's Chocolate

Leftism

Liberalism

Comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-maher" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Maher</a> slammed the beliefs of woke people while speaking to Joe Rogan during a recent interview, saying that the way they see the world is similar to the views of the Ku Klux Klan.
Maher made the remarks during an episode of &#8220;The Joe Experience&#8221; while discussing the differences between woke people and liberals.
&#8220;You’re like liberals back when they were more reasonable before they became leftists. And now every liberal kind of has to be a leftist,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;If you want to be on the team, you’ve got to subscribe to the most fringe ideas that the team is promoting.&#8221;
Maher responded, &#8220;I&#8217;m always trying to make the case that liberal is a different animal than woke, because it is, and you can be woke with all the nonsense that that now implies.&#8221;
&#8220;But don&#8217;t say that somehow it&#8217;s an extension of liberalism because it&#8217;s most often actually an undoing of liberalism,&#8221; Maher responded. &#8220;And so you can have your points of view and your positions on these things. But don&#8217;t try to piggyback on what I&#8217;ve always believed. I have always believed, as liberals do, for example, in a colorblind society, that the goal is to not see race at all, anywhere, for any reason. That&#8217;s what liberals always believed all the way through Obama, going back Kennedy, everybody, Martin Luther King.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s not what the woke believe, they believe race is first and foremost, the thing you should always see everywhere, which I find interesting because that used to be the position of the Ku Klux Klan — that we see race first and foremost, everywhere,&#8221; he added. &#8220;So again, you can have that position. But don&#8217;t say that&#8217;s a liberal position. You&#8217;re doing something very different.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/joerogan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeRogan</a>: &quot;You are like a 90&#39;s liberal back when they were more reasonable before they became leftists.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/billmaher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@billmaher</a>: &quot;The woke believe race is first and foremost the thing you should always see everywhere, which I find interesting because that used to be the position of the Ku… <a href="https://t.co/5Ui8Is6ESD">pic.twitter.com/5Ui8Is6ESD</a>
&mdash; KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) <a href="https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1698070366575546859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones – Inside

Bill Maher Slams Woke Views: ‘That Used To Be The Position Of The Ku Klux Klan’

Bill Maher Slams Woke Views: 'That Used To Be The Position Of The Ku Klux Klan'

Bill Maher

General

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

The son of the original “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/disney">Snow White</a>” director slammed the upcoming live action <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">remake</a> from Disney, saying it has the potential to “destroy” the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">film’s</a> legacy.
David Hand, 91, shares the same name as his father, who directed the original 1937 animated classic. His comments come just after lead actress Rachel Zegler called the 1937 animation &#8220;extremely dated&#8221; and claimed the new version of Snow White is &#8220;not going to be saved by the prince.” She further accused Snow White of falling in love with “a guy who literally stalks her.”
Leaked photos from the set also showed the seven dwarfs being changed into “magical creatures” to “avoid reinforcing stereotypes.” 
Hand, who worked as a designer for Disney in the 1990s, said in an interview with <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/08/18/disney-snow-white-seven-dwarfs-remake-woke-backlash/">The Telegraph</a> that both his father and Walt Disney would be &#8220;turning in their graves&#8221; over the &#8220;insulting&#8221; updates.
&#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s a whole different concept, and I just totally disagree with it, and I know my dad and Walt would also very much disagree with it,&#8221; Hand said. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s pathetic that people feel that way&#8230; these are art forms in the world of film today.&#8221;
He went on to say the original “Snow White” was made &#8220;with good taste when it was written.” Hand said in general, Disney &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t be taking a classic and rewriting it in their own image.&#8221;
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&#8220;They change the stories, they change the thought processes of the characters, they just aren&#8217;t the original stories anymore. They&#8217;re making up new woke things and I&#8217;m just not into any of that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I find it quite frankly, a bit insulting that they may have done with some of these classic films.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s no respect for what Disney did and what my dad did&#8230; I think Walt and he would be turning in their graves.&#8221;
Hand echoed what many other critics have been saying when he urged the studio to come up with new films rather than focusing on remaking the classics. &#8220;Pick on something else&#8230; create new characters, if you&#8217;re gonna do this, but don&#8217;t destroy or try to destroy something that is, that is a classic and is a beautiful piece.&#8221;
“Snow White” is slated for a March 2024 release.
(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/introducing-dw-kids">announced plans</a> for kids entertainment content.)

Snow White

Son Of Original ‘Snow White’ Director Slams Live Action Disney Remake, Says Father And Walt Disney ‘Would Be Turning In Their Graves’

Son Of Original 'Snow White' Director Slams New Version With Rachel Zegler: 'My Father And Walt Would Be Turning In Their Graves'

Disney

Entertainment

Movies

Disney&#8217;s new &#8220;Snow White&#8221; Rachel Zegler got slammed on social media by Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-goes-viral-after-disney-admits-woke-snow-white-remake-images-are-real" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh</a> and others as she continued bashing the original film in another resurfaced video in which she claimed the Prince was a &#8220;stalker.&#8221;
In the video that resurfaced on X over the weekend, the 22-year-old actress said &#8220;I mean, you know, the original cartoon came out in 1937 and very evidently so. There&#8217;s a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her. Weird! Weird. So we didn&#8217;t do that this time.&#8221;
&#8220;We have a different approach to, what I&#8217;m sure a lot of people will assume is a love story, just because we cast a guy in the movie, Andrew Burnap, great dude,&#8221; she added. &#8220;It’s one of those things that I think everyone&#8217;s going to have their assumptions about what it&#8217;s going to be, but it&#8217;s really not about the love story at all, which is really, really wonderful.&#8221;
Walsh posted a <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1690742476967968769?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">message</a> on X to his 2.4 million followers in response, &#8220;Disney is trying a really interesting marketing strategy where the star of the new &#8216;Snow White&#8217; spends a year before the movie&#8217;s release publicly talking about how much she despises Snow White.&#8221;
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Disney is trying a really interesting marketing strategy where the star of the new Snow White spends a year before the movie’s release publicly talking about how much she despises Snow White 
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&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1690742476967968769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Conservative radio host Dana Loesch joked, &#8220;[T]hey probably couldn&#8217;t have a Prince Charming in this one because Snow White is so annoying that he&#8217;d just let her continue napping.&#8221;
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So it’s not actually the story of Snow White. They probably couldn’t have a Prince Charming in this one because Snow White is so annoying that he’d just let her continue napping. <a href="https://t.co/UQwGoIWnND">https://t.co/UQwGoIWnND</a>
&mdash; Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1690912973001281536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Red State editor Brandon Morse wrote simply, &#8220;Disney’s own actors are tearing down Disney’s legacy.&#8221;
Another person wrote that it wasn&#8217;t just conservatives that were done with this idea of the &#8220;strong female lead trope,&#8221; but everyone.
&#8220;The fact that everyone is so unhappy with Rachel Zegler and Snow White shows how *EVERYONE* — not just conservatives — is done with the strong female lead trope,&#8221; the person wrote. &#8220;It&#8217;s overdone and the girls are tired of it.&#8221;
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The fact that everyone is so unhappy with Rachel Zegler and Snow White shows how *EVERYONE* &#8211; not just conservatives &#8211; is done with the strong female lead trope. It&#39;s overdone and the girls are tired of it.<a href="https://t.co/VzPobKcHCL">pic.twitter.com/VzPobKcHCL</a>
&mdash; nikki (@ateenyalien) <a href="https://twitter.com/ateenyalien/status/1691074254199013376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In another video that resurfaced recently, the actress faced a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/another-resurfaced-clip-snow-white-star-knocking-1937-love-story-draws-backlash-literally-stalks-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backlash</a> after she said that the remake wasn&#8217;t going to have any of those things like Snow White &#8220;being saved by the prince&#8221; or  the princess &#8220;dreaming about true love.&#8221;
&#8220;She&#8217;s not going to be saved by the prince and she&#8217;s not going to be dreaming about true love,&#8221; Zegler said in the clip. &#8220;She&#8217;s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be and the leader that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave and true.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-goes-viral-after-disney-admits-woke-snow-white-remake-images-are-real" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh Goes Viral After Disney Admits &#8216;Woke Snow White Remake&#8217; Images Are Real</a>
Disclosure: The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/introducing-dw-kids">announced plans</a> for kids entertainment content.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/target" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Target</a> investor has sued the retail chain, saying that it misled investors over risks related to its LGBT marketing and diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
A lawsuit filed on Tuesday by America First Legal (AFL), co-counsel Boyden Gray PLLC, and Lawson Huck Gonzalez PLLC on behalf of investor Brian Craig in Florida <a href="https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-sues-target-corporation-on-behalf-of-shareholder-for-making-misleading-statements-regarding-managements-reckless-esg-and-dei-mandates-that-cost-shareholders-over-12-billi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> that Target cost shareholders lost billions of dollars because of its LGBT, ESG, and DEI policies.
The lawsuit <a href="https://media.aflegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/08204301/Complaint-filed-stamped-copy.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accuses</a> Target and its board of directors of betraying “both Target’s core customer base of working families and its investors by making false and misleading statements concerning Target’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) mandates that led to its disastrous 2023 children-and-family themed LGBT-Pride campaign.”
Craig <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/09/target-sued-by-investor-over-backlash-to-lgbtq-merchandise.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">owns</a> over 200 Target shares and says that the corporation’s board of directors and management misled investors about risk management over social and political messaging. The lawsuit says that Target did not consider potential criticism from more conservative customers when rolling out ESG and DEI mandates.
Target market value has <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/target-hit-with-shareholder-lawsuit-after-pride-backlash-damaged-stock-price" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declined</a> $14 billion in value after backlash mounted to its June “Pride” month displays. During the controversy, Target was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lets-make-a-deal-host-wayne-brady-reveals-he-is-pansexual" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> for offering for sale “tuck-friendly” and “extra crotch coverage” female swimsuits.
In addition to the female swimwear designed to accommodate male genitalia, the Target &#8220;Pride&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-releases-latest-pride-collection-complete-with-kids-books-and-rainbow-items-for-babies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collection included</a> small shirts with phrases like “Just Be You And Feel The Love,” Pride-themed onesies, as well as rainbow-colored leggings, tutu skirts, and jumpers.
Target removed some products and moved &#8220;Pride displays&#8221; to less prominent positions in some stores after scrambling following some conservative commentators urging a boycott of the popular retail store.
The lawsuit says the displays “embroiled Target in the culture war and caused Target to experience the biggest stock decline in the company’s history, costing investors billions.”
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AFL Vice President Gene Hamilton said that Target’s board and management did not follow federal law making publicly-traded companies issue certain statements to investors on risk management.
“As alleged in our complaint, Target failed to execute its duty to its shareholders by making statements that led them to believe that political and social risks were being assessed &#8212; when in reality, the only thing Target’s Board and Management cared about was how effectively they fulfilled the desires of various metrics advanced by leftwing ‘stakeholders,’” Hamilton said.
Back in June, Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk predicted that Target would face a lawsuit over the dramatic loss of value.
“Won’t be long before there are class-action lawsuits by shareholders against the company and board of directors for destruction of shareholder value,&#8221; Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1664618300041469952" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted on X</a>.

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Oracle, a giant of the tech industry, hosted scholarship and internship opportunities in conjunction with the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) that excluded both white and Asian applicants on the basis of their race.
The two opportunities specifically notify white and Asian individuals who attempt to apply that they are ineligible on the basis of their race.
One of the two programs, archived <a href="https://archive.ph/9ioeZ">here</a>, is called the “<a href="https://scholarships.uncf.org/Program/Details/940e57b3-c32c-4e6d-b92e-323d3e8a4df3">Oracle Corporate Scholars Program</a>.” According to the description, “The Oracle Corporate Scholars Program provides extended learning experiences at Oracle headquarters during the summer of 2023.” It goes on to list the racial requirements, saying, “The program includes scholarship support for African American, Hispanics or Native Americans.”
Under a section titled “eligibility requirements,” the description lists acceptable ethnicities, which excludes white and Asian applicants and instead are limited to “African American/Black, American Indian &#8211; Alaska Native, Hispanic American.”
“Successful candidates will be offered internships during the summer of 2023 and subsequent scholarship awards for academic year 2023-24 upon successful completion of the program,” it also explains. 
An almost identical program lists the same selection criteria. Titled the “<a href="https://scholarships.uncf.org/Program/Details/39e5bfc9-d224-44b5-b935-1d627e27ef26">Oracle Developer Scholars Program</a>” and archived <a href="https://scholarships.uncf.org/Program/Details/39e5bfc9-d224-44b5-b935-1d627e27ef26">here</a>, the description says, “The Oracle Developers Scholars Program seeks to identify students to serve as technical development interns during the summer of 2023.”
At the conclusion of the internship, interns will have an opportunity to receive a $10,000 scholarship for the 2023-2024 academic school year,” it also notes.“This program seeks Black, Hispanic, and Native American students,” it goes on to say. The program lists the same race-based eligibility requirements.
Oracle advertises the two racially discriminatory internship offerings on its <a href="https://www.oracle.com/corporate/careers/students-grads/uncfscholars/">website</a>, archived <a href="https://archive.ph/zHDin">here,</a> saying, “We offer two different types of programs for students who come from underrepresented communities in STEM.”
The tech company has partnered with the United Negro College Fund to give “students from underrepresented communities the opportunity to launch their career with a world-class internship experience and scholarship funding.” It also notes donations of more than $12 million “to our shared mission.”
Oracle is set to hold the same internship and scholarship opportunities in the summer of 2024. Applicants can apply for the programs on the United Negro College Fund website but are barred from accessing the application if their profile lists “Caucasian” or “Asian Pacific Islander American” as their ethnicity. 
When white and Asian applicants click the “apply now” button on the Oracle Corporate Scholars Program page, they are informed, “Based off the following information in your applicant profile, you are deemed ineligible for this opportunity.”
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<a href="https://www.law.gmu.edu/faculty/directory/fulltime/bernstein_david">David Bernstein</a>, a professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, told The Daily Wire that, although an individual who was barred from applying might have standing to sue, “it’s a tricky question.”
“It looks like Oracle has delegated selection of the candidate, and that UNCF determines the rules for who can apply. UNCF isn&#8217;t bound by Title VII, because it&#8217;s not the employer,” Berstein added. He went on to note, however, “I think that if someone sued Oracle for hiring a grant recipient, knowing that whites and Asians were excluded, that person would likely win.”
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Oracle is not the only tech company that has hosted racially discriminatory internship opportunities that disadvantage white and Asian people. A <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/google-partners-with-top-universities-for-this-prestigious-fellowship-lawyers-say-the-racial-and-gender-quotas-its-imposing-are-illegal/">report</a> from the Washington Free Beacon found that Google put a cap on the number of white and Asian students that universities could nominate for a fellowship program.
<a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/a-microsoft-fellowship-caps-the-number-of-white-and-asian-applicants-lawyers-say-thats-illegal/">Microsoft</a> also capped the number of white and Asian students that could be nominated for one of the tech company’s fellowships. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical giant <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/pfizer-hit-with-lawsuit-over-fellowship-that-excludes-whites-and-asians/">Pfizer</a> was hit with a lawsuit over a fellowship that racially discriminates against whites and Asians.
There’s also Voya Investment Management, which <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2023/04/20/investment-management-firm-voya-excludes-whites-from-internship-scholarship/">hosted</a> a Financial Services Diversity Scholarship <a href="https://archive.ph/V8HKm#">Program</a> that did not allow white applicants, with an eligibility requirement reading “Self-identify as Black or African American; Hispanic or Latino; American Indian or Alaska Native American; Asian; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; or multi-racial.”
Oracle did not respond to a request for comment.

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HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher&#8221; host admitted he hoped the reports about the new &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/barbie-delivers-feminism-with-a-man-hating-sledgehammer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barbie</a>&#8221; movie being a &#8220;man-hating&#8221; film was a lie — but said after finally seeing the movie it was that and more, slamming the director for ignoring the world we currently live in.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-can-say-the-craziest-thing-bill-maher-says-no-one-is-canceled-for-being-too-woke" target="_blank" rel="noopener">67-year-old</a> comedian/TV host took to <a href="https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1688648703660404736" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> on Monday and wrote to his 10.8 million followers that the Greta Gerwig-directed movie about the famed Mattel doll was a &#8220;ZombieLie,&#8221; along with being &#8220;preachy&#8221; and out of touch with reality.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-answers-bill-mahers-question-about-origin-of-woke-mind-virus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maher</a> said the term &#8220;ZombieLie&#8221; means it&#8217;s either &#8220;something that never was true, but certain people refuse to stop saying it&#8221; or &#8220;something that USED to be true but no longer is, but certain people pretend it&#8217;s still true. &#8216;Barbie&#8217; is this kind of #ZombieLie.&#8221;
&#8220;Spoiler alert, Barbie fights the Patriarchy,&#8221; the HBO host wrote in his lengthy post. &#8220;Right up to the Mattel board who created her, consisting of 12 white men! The Patriarchy! Except there&#8217;s a Mattel board in real life, and it&#8217;s 7 men and 5 women. OK, not perfect even-steven, but not the way the board IN THE MOVIE — which takes place in 2023 — is portrayed.&#8221;
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OK, &quot;Barbie&quot;: I was hoping it wouldn&#39;t be preachy, man-hating, and a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZombieLie?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ZombieLie</a> &#8211; alas, it was all three. What is a Zombie Lie? Something that never was true, but certain people refuse to stop saying it (tax cuts for the rich increase revenues, e.g.); OR something that USED to be…
&mdash; Bill Maher (@billmaher) <a href="https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1688648703660404736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;And not really any longer deserving of the word &#8216;patriarchy,'&#8221; he added. &#8220;Yes, there was one, and remnants of it remain — but this movie is so 2000 —LATE. At one point the Barbies have to win over the Kens, and they are told to do it by pretending to act helpless and not know how to do stuff. Helen Gurley Brown called, she wants her premise back.&#8221;
Maher admitted yes, at one point in history this &#8220;was a thing&#8221; but said he knows from at least one woman in her 30s this is simply not true and she told him, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know a single woman of any age who would act like that today.&#8221;
And when it comes to critics who will say the TV personality couldn&#8217;t know a thing about the patriarchy cause he&#8217;s a man, he blasted the argument as &#8220;so old and so silly.&#8221; He said he might not know what others go through in life, but can clearly see &#8220;the world around me, and I can read data.&#8221;
&#8220;The real Mattel board is a pretty close mirror of the country, where 45% of the 449 board seats filled last year in Fortune 500 companies were women,&#8221; Maher added. &#8220;Truth is, I&#8217;m not the one who&#8217;s out of step — I&#8217;m living in the year we&#8217;re living in.&#8221;
&#8220;Barbie is fun, I enjoyed it — but it IS a #ZombieLie,&#8221; the talk show host concluded. &#8220;And people who don&#8217;t go along with zombie lies did not take some red pill — just staying true to CURRENT reality. Let&#8217;s live in the year we&#8217;re living in! Hi Ken!!!&#8221;
Maher&#8217;s comments echoed that of Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1683168362107490304" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro&#8217;s</a>, who&#8217;s made it clear he&#8217;s not a &#8220;Barbie&#8221; movie fan, other than for the look of the sets, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-and-brett-cooper-debate-merits-of-barbie-movie" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling</a> the &#8220;production and set designs&#8221; great.
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My producers dragged me to see ‘Barbie’ and it was one of the most woke movies I have ever seen. My full review of this flaming garbage heap of a film will be out on my YouTube channel tomorrow at 10am ET. <a href="https://t.co/Lptha0p3qx">pic.twitter.com/Lptha0p3qx</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1682468998607171584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-left-freaks-out-because-i-hated-the-barbie-movie-heres-the-real-reason-why" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Left Freaks Out Because I Hated The &#8216;Barbie&#8217; Movie. Here&#8217;s The Real Reason Why.</a>

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