Alex Parker at Red State offers the three most important observations to be made from CrossFit firing its Chief Knowledge officer for his statement regarding the "pride" day an Indianapolis unit of the gym chain was going to hold:
- The stupidity of companies taking social or political stances in the first place. In the 1990’s, when you went to your local big-chain pharmacy, were you aware of their stance on gay marriage? How about free trade? What about the border? Or whether or not you should be able to buy a rifle at Wal-Mart? How about race relations or Islam? You didn’t know about any of that, because it didn’t matter. No one thoughtit did, including the company. They sold something, and you bought something. That was the limited notion of what a business was. These days, you can’t buy house shoes without being aware of the store’s publicly-unleashed rebel yell about whether a man in a dress should be allowed to enter a woman’s locker room. In my opinion, businesses should stay out of the arena of sociopolitical debate, and simply focus on selling a product worth buying.
- The perplexing trajectory of the Pride movement: a company which provides a public service is going to host a special physical workout to congratulate people on their sexual interests? “You like doing what? Okay, then let’s all meet up and do consecutive pull-ups to toast that.”
- The growing danger of speaking one’s personal thoughts on any form of social media, for fear of being fired by a company which is completely removed from one’s life as a private citizen.
And were you aware of how the company's CEO chimed in on the matter?
CrossFit founder and CEO, Greg Glassman, made that clear in an interview with Buzzfeed:
“[Berger] needs to take a big dose of ‘shut the f*** up’ and hide out for awhile. It’s sad.”
Therefore, if you’re gay and proud, shout it from the rooftops; if you’re of another belief, shut the ____ up.
Oh, and “hide out for a while.” Imagine a company publicly telling someone on the other side of the ideological aisle to hide out due to their stated belief; it’s not so easy.
This is why we call 'em, jackboots, folks.
Companies now swab for nicotine use, it is verboten, can't even smoke a cigar in a martini bar on a Saturday when u got nobody or you won't get paid, no, not no more, you're out the door. This is Nazi ain't it?
ReplyDeleteHas nothing to do with the subject at hand.
ReplyDeleteHmm, it's corporate overlords dictating what their employees do even when they're not at work. They got the power (big money) to mold our minds too, to buy their products and put their big shot managers behind gated walls. Ahh, but you'd rather damn the state.
ReplyDeleteAnd we're all expected to buy-in to their virtues of selfishness. Their lawyers, accountants and MBA management mold us in their image. You'll be shocked to know that their pension plans, the ones that remain, are as woefully underfunded as OASI.
ReplyDeleteIn "Retirees Were Promised Pensions. Globally, We're Going to Be $400 Trillion Short" Sam Becker tells us "Pensions - regular payments from an employer paid out after retirement - are in serious trouble. The short and sweet of it is the people and organizations who are on the hook to pay out those pensions are coming up short - trillions of dollars short." While Ania Zalewska in "Huge pension fund deficits are a global crisis in waiting" quantifies these assertions, writing: "According to a Citibank report from 2016, the 20 largest OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries alone have a US$78 trillion shortfall in funding pay-as-you-go and defined benefit public pensions' obligations." And "Private pensions are not any more sound.
https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/retirees-promised-pensions-globally-400-trillion-short.html/?a=viewall
US private pensions, for example, have (across the board) only 82% of the funds necessary to meet their liabilities."
ReplyDeleteBut when they step on your anti-gay toes you howl.
ReplyDeleteHere's why it's unrelated: Swabbing for nicotine may or may not be intrusive. A good case can be made that it is. But an individual chooses to work there of his own volition. Now, that is also true in the case of the CrossFit Chief Knowledge Officer, but he was speaking the basic tenets of his faith. Proclaiming what God has put on one's heart is an entirely different kind of behavior from choosing to use tobacco. Ion other words, the locus of what is wrong g in the CrossFit situation is cultural - namely, the concerted effort to stamp out Christianity - rather than heavy-handed corporate policy in general.
ReplyDeleteAnd you further drift afield in your next few comments by bringing in pensions. Doesn't have one stinking thing to do with the topic of the post.
It's all about corporations dictating what their employees think do, write and say on their own time as if they live, pray they don't die their corporate way. And you rail against the state.
ReplyDeleteWhile nicotine swabs are indeed intrusive, it's dictating what you can't do on your own time that's the abomination for personal freedom.
ReplyDeleteThat may be, but the only reason corporate heavy-handedness enters into this post’s subject is that it happens to be the instrument in that s case by which the Devil is working to rot our culture.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, the state must be kept as small as possible, for the most part inconsequential to people’s daily lives
This is not a post about the problematic aspects of the corporate world in general
ReplyDeleteOh, I see, this post is about the devil. Well let's attack the devil by keeping corporations or any employer our of our private lives, how's that?
ReplyDeleteYou Republicans and former Republicans seem to think you have a bead on the supernatural dontcha? Actually you're quite atavistic, besides being full of it.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/theres-a-special-place-in-hell-for-trudeau-after-his-g7-stunt-top-wh-trade-adviser-peter-navarro-says/ar-AAys9Kn?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=SL5JDHP
You're getting more off-topic with each comment.
ReplyDeleteOh, then it's not about the devil (which you capitalize)working to rot our culture?
ReplyDeleteThe Devil is the personification and archetype of evil in various cultures. Historically, the Devil can be defined as the personification of whatever is perceived in society as evil and the depiction consist of its cultural traditions. It was not the devil who elected Trump, it was fundamentalist Christians who always bring it up.
The dude tweeted his mind and, since he's not Trump, his employer fired him. Evidently his employer is what they call "gay friendly." So if you want to pop off, warn us, be negative, scare us, and all that, I'm very cool with that. Don't whine if your employer does not agree and fires you because I guess they don't want their company associated with your views. It's wrong of course, but the devil did not make them do it, perhaps their lawyers did, which is close, but no cigar. No cigar ever for some employees. No cigar. Oh well, it's bad for us, though it worked for Grant and Churchill. Who's them people?
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