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Home Front: Politix
Coke Well Beyond Woke - Globalist Conglomerate Coca Cola Abandons American Ideas
2021-02-03
[American Thinker] Now that we have entered the new world of diversity, inclusion and equity, the acronym DIE aptly applies. While schools have long been involved in these activities, businesses have now voluntarily adopted or been forced to accept this left-wing ideology as well.

Consequently, Coca-Cola has sent out notices to law firms demanding that the company will "require diversity among law firms who bill it for work in the United States and reduce payments if they do not comply."

Because of pressure from the Marxist, anti-American Black Lives Matter, many Fortune 500 companies have pledged to address alleged racial inequality more aggressively.

In fact, there is almost a competition among firms to see who gets the highest score of diversity and inclusion. How is this accomplished?
To determine the Best Workplaces for Diversity, Fortune partnered with Great Place to Work® to analyze anonymous survey feedback representing more than 4.8 million US employees.

The Best Workplaces for Diversity list focuses on the experiences of women, people of color, LGBTQ people, employees who are Boomers or older, and people who have disabilities. The ranking is based on what these employees themselves report in a 60-question Trust Index© survey about the trust, pride and camaraderie they experience in their workplace, and how those experiences compare to their colleagues’ reports of the same workplaces. Great Place to Work also consider[s] employees’ daily experiences of innovation, the company’s values, and the effectiveness of their leaders, to ensure they’re consistently experienced, as well.

The remaining 15 percent of the rank is based on the diversity of the company’s overall workforce and its management, senior leadership and board, taking into account industry trends.
Coca Cola Company's Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer, Lori George Billingsley, explains how Coca-Cola is creating a culture of diversity and inclusion.
Posted by:Besoeker

#15  Good riddance to corn syrupy crap
Posted by: Pholuter and Tenille2884   2021-02-03 18:53  

#14  It is great for cleaning off battery corrosion too.
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-02-03 17:20  

#13  Still remember my dark-ages High School class where the teacher put a 10P nail into a glass of Coke.

The nail was dissolved in less than a day.

Never drank the product after that.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2021-02-03 13:37  

#12  If you're thirsty, drink water. Coke's primary ingredient is sugar and it's bad for you. If you consider how many people die from obesity, heart disease and diabetes you might even wonder why it's legal.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-02-03 13:04  

#11   about to start identifying as members of the opposite sex.

Is it sad that I foresee a brand new category of s3xual perversion in the next Psychiatric Handbook? Secretly dressing as their natural born s3x in the bedroom...
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-02-03 11:56  

#10  They don't know it yet, but a whole bunch of rookie lawyers at big firms are about to start identifying as members of the opposite sex.
Posted by: Matt   2021-02-03 11:49  

#9   Drink Pepsi!

Pepsi supported the Arab boycott of Israel. Coke did not. But it’s a new generation making different calculations, clearly.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-02-03 11:35  

#8  What goes up will come down, usually from rot from within.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589   2021-02-03 11:16  

#7  When a Jury of their peers finds them guilty, that is applied justice and NOT based on Race, Creed or Color.

When it isn't, we have multiple layers of Appeal and Civil Lawsuits to correct it.

So just to Panic a bunch of WOKE supporters with Logic, I ask the following question:

If a majority of major US cities are Liberal/Minority Controlled and Run. An the jury selection pool is representative of the voters that elected those Liberal/Minority Leaders?

Then why is Social Justice needed? Isn't a JURY OF THEIR PEERS finding the accused Socially Responsible for the crimes?
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-02-03 06:02  

#6  I am WAS big on Diet Coke.
I guess its back to Diet RC's. I dumped Pepsi in the later 90's for donating $$ Millions to Handgun Control Inc. & Plan Parenthood. My purchases will NOT fund such ideas and causes.

So in those immortal words of "The Legend of 1900" "F--K WOKE, F--K Coke."

Posted by: Just Saying   2021-02-03 05:58  

#5  Drink Pepsi!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-02-03 05:16  

#4  No thanks Coke. I try to keep phosphoric acid out of my body in order to keep calcium in. I'd like to still have a skeleton when I am 60.
Posted by: Snineling Flotle8716   2021-02-03 05:14  

#3  Perversity & Occlusion
Posted by: Zenobia Mussolini3547   2021-02-03 03:12  

#2  Amazingly stupid. As if law firms weren’t already hiring as many qualified women and minorities as they can find. It may be time to invest in an Israeli-made SodaStream machine or switch to RC Cola or to any of those boutique soda companies that make real ginger ale and such.

Actually, we’d already cut back steeply on the family Coke consumption, as have many, or so I’ve read — too much caffeine doesn’t go well with lockdowns. It’s mostly plain club soda for us now, with the occasional kombucha as a treat; ginger-lemon is my favourite, with the added benefit of the health claims around fermented foods. ;-)

But really, if the issue is countering falling sales in the short term, I suppose Coke could do worse than to lock in the rabidly Progressive consumer dollar — look what that did for New York Times subscriptions during the Trump presidency. The problem will come later, when too many mass market companies are competing for the same limited pool of woke consumers that the previously woke foodie cachet brands had corralled.

Incidentally, the list of Coke company brands is here.

Posted by: trailing wife   2021-02-03 03:08  

#1  Coke abandoned "American Ideas" decades ago.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-02-03 01:54  

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