WOKE WEDNESDAY: The 2023 Anti-Woke Awards Show

Dec 20

Written By Matt Moscardi

Anti woke awards

Anti woke company of the year

SVB: “I’m not saying 12 white men would have avoided this mess, but the company may have been distracted by diversity demands”

Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs

Anheuser Busch / Bud Light
Chick-fil-A

Chick-fil-A sparks anti-woke outrage for VP of diversity, equity, inclusion post

Norfolk Southern

“After seeing another Norfolk Southern train derailed this weekend, I was reminded of the fact that the company wrote to shareholders stating that it is focused on DEI,” Collins said on the House floor. “This administration’s focus on DEI is forcing private companies to rethink their goals and one has to wonder, was Norfolk Southern’s DEI policies directing resources away from the important things like greasing wheel bearings? Now this insanity must stop.”

Anti woke shareholder proposal of the year

Marriott: Stockholder Resolution Requesting that the Company Publish a Congruency Report of Partnerships with Globalist Organizations, The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR)

“past Bilderberg meetings have been held inside Marriott hotels”

Microsoft: Gender Based Compensation report (National Legal and Policy Center)

Women who choose not to abort pre-born babies… get paid less

Boeing “throw in a Uyghur” proposals (NLPC)

And so shareholders are entitled to full and transparent disclosure of what efforts Boeing is exerting to persuade its Chinese business partners to end their unconscionable oppression of their Uyghur Muslim, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic and/or Muslim ethnic minority populations. Failure to do so will further damage Boeing’s international reputation, as it will stand credibly accused of hypocrisy, and of placing profits above principle, by proclaiming its commitment to racial justice while tolerating, for the sake of its business relationship, “behavior that is contrary to our values”—China’s cruel subjugation of ethnic and religious minorities.

Anti woke fund of the year

2ndVote Society Defended - LIQUIDATED!

The “Society Defended” ETF screens out companies “that oppose 2nd Amendment rights, border security, civil society or support for law enforcement”
“There is an overall failure in either our messaging or a commitment by conservatives and Christians to actually take meaningful steps to counter the successful radical ESG/woke/leftist agenda,” David Black said.
2ndVote ratings (we analyzed 1,000 of the 1,800 ratings) used to create the funds were found to hate three things: companies that manage carbon emissions, companies that have unions, and companies that have women on boards (especially if they have power)

Strive 500 ETF

Strive Asset Management is seen “as political over investment oriented,” turning off some investors and limiting its opportunities to grow - so they changed messaging to be “shareholder value” oriented

God Bless America ETF (YALL)

“An investment for God fearing, flag waving conservatives”

Largest holding: NVIDIA, who announced Nvidia will reportedly sell new chips to China that still meet U.S. rules
Also, diversity

Anti woke legislation of the year

Florida amendment to section 215.855 requiring: “Any written communication made by the investment manager to a company in which such manager invests public funds on behalf of a governmental entity must include the following disclaimer in a conspicuous location if such communication discusses social, political, or ideological interests; subordinates the interests of the company's shareholders to the interest of another entity; or advocates for the interest of an entity other than the company's shareholders: The views and opinions expressed in this communication are those of the sender and do not reflect the views and opinions of the people of the State of Florida. The contract may be unilaterally terminated at the option of the governmental entity if the investment manager does not include the disclaimer required in paragraph (a).
Texas SB 883: Except as provided by Section 565.006, an insurer may not use an environmental, social, or governance model, score, factor, or standard to charge a rate different than the rate charged to another business or risk in the same class for essentially the same hazard.
Wyoming SLIB rule amendment: Pecuniary factors do not include the furtherance of environmental, social, governance, political, or ideological interests. These ideological investment criteria which have crippled, corrupted, disadvantaged, subverted, damaged, or otherwise harmed the children, citizens, industry, and financial well-being of Wyoming and America and we expect they will continue to do so.

Anti woke celebrity blowhard of the year

Scott Adams / Dilbert

Alice Cooper Calls 'Woke' Ideology 'Laughable,' Slams Trans 'Fad'

Cooper said, "I find it wrong when you've got a 6-year-old kid who has no idea. He just wants to play, and you're confusing him, telling him, 'Yeah, you're a boy, but you could be a girl if you want to be.’”

Musk

Anti woke defense of the year

Disney’s “Royal clause”: This Declaration shall be deemed effective as of the Effective Date and continue to be effective in perpetuity unless all or certain portions of the provisions of this Declaration are expressly terminated as provided elsewhere herein; provided, however, that if the perpetual term of this Declaration shall continue in effect until twenty one (21) years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, King of England living as of the date of this Declaration. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary herein, this Declaration will terminate as of the date that none of WDPR or any of its Affiliates (or their respective successor entities) owns any real property within ten (10) miles of the RCID Properties.