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Virtue signalling CEOs — because that's what big corporations do
PJ Media ^ | 8/16/2017

Posted on 08/16/2017 9:53:01 PM PDT by Liberty7732

From the story:

"Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank said his company "engages in innovation and sports, not politics.""

Seems like he is directly engaging in politics.


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1 posted on 08/16/2017 9:53:01 PM PDT by Liberty7732
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To: Liberty7732

Public corporations do. Because those CEOs are under pressure to show quarter-over-quarter gains, they are constantly looking for ways to appease and play up to their big investors and investment analysts. They are like politicians and a TV camera...never get between the two! They knew all about not letting a crisis go to waste long before Rahm-bo said it, and the opportunity to grandstand was too tempting not to take.

But so what. Average Americans could care less. In fact average Americans hate their guts.


2 posted on 08/16/2017 10:03:59 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Liberty7732

Anyone who’s ever dealt with big corporations, they are deathly afraid of liberal and racial criticism.


3 posted on 08/16/2017 10:18:33 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: bigbob

“Public corporations do. Because those CEOs are under pressure to show quarter-over-quarter gains,”

No in this case their next quarterly report is the least of their worries - it’s their lives and careers that has them preoccupied. Any prominent CEO seen siding with Trump is taking a huge career risk. Who want’s a mob with the media in tow descend on their headquarters and getting called a confederate sympathizer and a Nazi?

The only thing that would alter their reaction is if enough on our side would make the CEOs lives even more miserable than the leftists do, or if we protect them from the attack dogs of the left.

I don’t think they see either occurring so they go with their only option for survival - kowtow to the left.


4 posted on 08/16/2017 10:25:41 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Liberty7732

Where is the so-called “White Privilege” when major corporations led by supposedly white privileged dudes are brought to their knees by SJW snowflakes?


5 posted on 08/16/2017 11:15:56 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Liberty7732

Little potential customers like me then walk away.


6 posted on 08/16/2017 11:33:41 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Plank is a coward.


7 posted on 08/17/2017 2:07:27 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: bigbob
CEOs are under pressure to show quarter-over-quarter gains, they are constantly looking for ways to appease and play up to their big investors and investment analysts.

Never really thought of it that way. Interesting.

8 posted on 08/17/2017 3:24:53 AM PDT by Tallguy (Twitter short-circuits common sense. Please engage your brain before tweeting.)
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To: Liberty7732
"Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank said his company "engages in innovation and sports, not politics.""

I go through a lot of sporting gear. Plank went as political as one could possibly get with his cheap stunt.

UA is dead to me now.

9 posted on 08/17/2017 4:13:33 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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Democrats have become the part of big Corporations.


10 posted on 08/17/2017 4:35:57 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Maverick68

Should be “party”


11 posted on 08/17/2017 5:02:36 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Liberty7732

Because they are advised to do this by their marketing departments.

Because marketing departments are staffed with Millenial women who received PC educations from Liberal universities.

Five negative tweets will convince them that the sky is falling and they start screaming at their bosses to hit the panic button.


12 posted on 08/17/2017 6:39:15 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“marketing departments are staffed with Millenial women who received PC educations”

Bingo! x1000


13 posted on 08/17/2017 6:41:05 AM PDT by The Toll
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