The other day National Review wunderkind/enfant terrible Nate Hochman asked on our little blog whether we might be seeing “woke capital blink.”
He had in mind a spate of recent reversals among corporations that had made hasty and panicked investments in fringe yet fashionable progressive causes. Among them: Exxon Mobil largely banning the promotion of campaigns du jour at corporate offices; Netflix’s brushback of employees who’d called for censorship of spicy content; State Farm’s sudden withdrawal of funds from a program that pumped books on gender and sexuality into schools; and, of course, Disney’s and other Fortune 500 companies’ relative silence on the news of the potential overturn of Roe.
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