My Experience With Woke Corporations
I don t contest the right of these companies to choose their projects. Nor do I deny Chase its right to choose its customers. My concern is a larger one. These companies, by becoming hyper-political, are essentially discriminating against a significant portion of Americans who don t share their political views.
What are the implications of this? If woke banks won t do business with us, then people like me political conservatives, mainstream Republicans will have to have our own banks. If woke companies won t sell to us, we ll have to have our own merchandizing sector. If woke digital platforms won t carry our views, we ll have to make our own, and if as in the case of Parler there is a coordinated strike to take them down, we ll have to restore our networks in a manner completely secure from such dangers.
This past weekend, my wife and I watched the movie The Green Book. In it, we saw a white and black man driving through the segregated South, where blacks basically lived in their own world their own banks, restaurants, barbershops, and public lavatories and water fountains and all because the whites flatly refused to do business with them.
It struck Debbie and me with the force of epiphany that this is where we seem to be heading. De facto segregation, not de jure segregation. And segregation not based on race but based on political viewpoint. It might seem overdramatic to say that Republicans and conservatives are the new blacks, but Republicans and conservatives are now treated in woke America with the same derision, contempt, and second-class citizenship that blacks were in the first part of the previous century.
I should be able to bank where I want, fly on any airline I want, and share my views on social media platforms that were set up precisely to foster communication and debate. We might need a new type of civil rights movement to combat the new political discrimination and restore equality of rights for all citizens.
Dinesh D’Souza.