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If you’re an English professor, why merely teach English literature when you can change the world? Doesn’t that make you feel much more important? And, if that’s true for a college professor, how much more so is it true for an elementary school teacher? What makes you feel more important-teaching third graders how to read and write or fighting racism? One obvious result has been the decimation of the Academy Awards, which have morphed into joyless celebrations not of acting, but of left-wing anger. But, again, beginning in the second half of the 20th century, Hollywood stars thought they had to “make a difference” by changing the world. Most actors actually found meaning in their profession-as indeed they should.īringing plays and films to life, making people laugh and cry, distracting people from their troubles for a couple of hours-these things render acting a very meaningful profession.
Until about the mid-20th century, few actors spoke out on political issues, let alone devoted their off-screen lives to social activism. They were now making the world a better place. It was sports writers who led the idiotic campaign to drop the name “Redskins” from the Washington NFL team-even though the name was adopted as an honorific (no one names their team for an insult) and even though the vast majority of Native Americans, according to The Washington Post itself, could not care less about the issue.īut the hysteria they whipped up over the name “Redskins” gave the lives of these sports writers much more meaning than merely reporting on football games. So, they decided to use their profession to change the world. They decided that merely writing about sports was not particularly significant work. There is no group more woke or more sheeplike in its behavior than sports writers. So, they sought to use journalism to change the world. In the second half of the 20th century, more and more of them found reporting the news unexciting and meaningless. And for the most part, reporters believed that was important work. For most of American history, reporters understood that their primary job was to report news. So, they sought to use their profession to change the world. There are a number of possible reasons, but here is one that explains the left-wing activism of almost every profession.īeginning in the second half of the 20th century, people in nearly every white-collar profession ceased finding their work inherently meaningful. How is one to explain Silicon Valley Bank’s-and for that matter, virtually every major bank’s-woke activism? These included ‘Lesbian Visibility Day’ and ‘Trans Awareness Week.'” “It adds that she … had authored numerous articles to promote LGBTQ awareness. “Jay is a leading figure for the bank’s awareness activities including being a panelist at the SVB’s Global Pride townhall to share her experiences as a lesbian of color, moderating SVB’s EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Pride townhall and was instrumental in … supporting employees in sharing their experiences of coming out,” her bio on the Outstanding website states. “Professional network Outstanding listed Ersapah as a top 100 LGTBQ Future Leader. In a corporate video published just nine months ago, she said she ‘could not be prouder’ to work for SVB serving ‘underrepresented minorities.’” The Daily Mail reported that Ersapah-who identifies herself as a “queer person of color”-“organized a host of LGBTQ initiatives including a month-long Pride campaign and implemented ‘safe space’ catch-ups for staff. It did have a chief risk officer for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East but the woman entrusted with that role, Jay Ersapah, was apparently considerably more interested in left-wing activism than in risk assessment. In fact, for nine months-from April 2022 until only eight weeks ago-Silicon Valley Bank in America didn’t even have a chief risk officer. Their primary concern was social activism-LGBTQIA+ diversity, equity, and inclusion environmental, social, and governance and climate change. Nor was it making money for the bank’s shareholders or safeguarding the funds of its depositors. The primary concern of the people who ran the Silicon Valley Bank-the bank that just went bust-was not banking.
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