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So punished and oppressed.
Are the LGBT mafia in the room with us right now? Who is their leader?
Larry Fink would be one of them.
Ah yes, the CEO of Blackrock is definitely an ally to LGBT people (head of their "mafia" even, according to you) and not just cynically pandering to whichever way the wind is blowing for exactly the amount of time it's beneficial to him and not a second more.
Just so you know, no progressive likes these evil companies or considers them or their CEOs allies. Their DEI initiatives are as fake as their environmental ones, it's just virtue signaling. They don't actually do anything for LGBT people — or any people for that matter, because believe it or not, real DEI includes straight white guys too! — they just adapt their marketing and product offerings to growing progressive sentiment. But the second the culture shifts, so does their "very serious commitment" to ESG/DEI/whatever.
And don't get me started how the rainbow marketing is non-existant in countries without widespread acceptance of LGBT people, which you'd think would be a crucial piece of their activity if their goal was actually to spread an ideology, right? (By contrast, think how MAGA-like movements exist in even the most progressive countries, and they push on regardless.) But this supposed "LGBT mafia" doesn't push at all, they're reactive to the environment and they shift gears the second it becomes a perceived liability: Musk, Zuckerberg, all of Big Tech and other supposed global wokeness spreaders, they all pivoted away from performative progressivism the second they realized it wouldn't harm their profits.
So there's your LGBT mafia chief. Got any more?
You just proved my point, all these people in the west are "supporting the LGBT movement" because it's trendy. No one cares about these minorities in the middle east, where being gay is punished by death.
Blackrock is pushing DEI because it's the new popular thing. I never said that Fink believes in it, but still he's the one "forcing behaviors".
I didn't prove your point, you're just being inconsistent: you started by saying this "mafia" of yours is supposedly imposing a trend, but now they're just following the trend — they can't do both. If they're just mimicking support, then they're just following... so who's leading? Who's the boss of the "LGBT mafia"? That was my original question: who's incentivizing all the wokeness?
As for "forcing behaviors", they're not forcing anything more than some KPIs that can be skirted by hiring a consultant to do some bullshit sensitivity training. Just take a look at how shallow the environment pledges have been: all that posturing and nobody's actually hitting their targets, not companies and not even countries (because it's a neoliberalism problem). They talk a big game then bury the lede when it's time to show results. They do the same crap with all progressive issues, and their hypocrisy is delegitimizing the actual movements, because people associate the real issues with this shallow pretend support, and come to believe it's all fake. We're so cooked, man.