“Corporate Social Justice Warriors”

Viewers are tired of woke politics seeping into every facet of entertainment media. Patience is running thin and most are simply tuning out.

The latest Marvel release called The Falcon and the Winter Soldier warranted a record breaking audience for its highly anticipated premiere episode, according to Disney+. The streaming service did not provide any numerics to corroborate this claim however the new show was proclaimed to be the most watched title for its opening weekend overall, even beating out The Mandalorian.

Another organization blinded by the Kultursmog.

Major League Baseball (MLB) is following Black Lives Matter (BLM) and taking a stand on the state of Georgia’s recent election legislation. MLB, under the direction of someone by the name of Rob Manfred, is pulling the 2021 All-Star Game out of suburban Atlanta along with the MLB draft. The New York Times in a front-page editorial (camouflaged as news) said the move by MLB was a “rebuke of a new Georgia voting law that critics have predicted would disenfranchise Black voters.”

Professional athletic leagues have traditionally steered clear of politics in order to emphasize the purity of their entertainment and to avoid dividing fans over partisan controversies. That has changed in the last year. Players in the National Football League have “taken the knee” during playing of the national anthem as a protest against police practices; the National Basketball Association has embraced Black Lives Matter, also as a protest against the police; and now Major League Baseball has taken this year’s All-Star game out of Atlanta as a protest against Georgia’s new voting law, though baseball executives do not appear to have studied that law. Through these gestures, formerly non-political organizations have allied themselves with explicitly political causes.

One of Georgia’s largest companies is facing a boycott backlash from Republicans after its CEO bashed the state’s new GOP voting reform bill.

Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey recently joined a chorus of other chief executives who, under pressure from Democrats and activist groups on the Left, have begun weighing in on the matter, prompting Republicans to push back.

According to the US Census Bureau, Atlanta, Georgia, has a population that is 51.0 percent black. According to the same source, Denver, Colorado has a population that is only 9.8 percent black. These facts seem to indicate that, as usual, leftists activists and organizations such as MLB are only virtue-signaling rather than really trying to show constructive support for black Americans.

Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are calling for Congress to end the antitrust exemption for Major League Baseball following MLB’s decision to move the All-Star Game from Atlanta because of the voting law.

The notification, when it arrived, seemed innocuous enough. It appeared, on first glance, to be an email notification of some change of status regarding my credit card, obtained many years ago through the Chase Bank. Normally, I don’t even read such notifications. Life is too short.