Goodyear’s Racial Discrimination Story Just got Even Worse

DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

[EyesOfTX]

Just when you think a story about leftist activism can’t possibly get any worse, it inevitably proves you wrong. – That is certainly the case with yesterday’s story about Goodyear, and its efforts to indoctrinate its employees by endorsing the propaganda of the openly-Marxist Black Lives Matter domestic terrorist group.

For those who may have missed it, here is the central aspect of that story:

But that consideration of ever buying from Goodyear ended this morning when news broke about a new attire policy the company has adopted for its employees. Check out this graphic:

So, it’s perfectly fine for Goodyear employees to wear clothing endorsing BLM, an openly-Marxist domestic terrorist group funded by front groups for George Soros and the Democrat Party. But it is not ok for those same employees to wear attire endorsing law enforcement or their desire to make America great again. You seriously cannot make this stuff up, folks.

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As I noted in that post yesterday, Goodyear management responded to the story by issuing a mealy-mouthed statement denying the slide had been distributed by the company’s corporate office, but not denying that it in fact reflects formal company policy. In other words, exactly what you would expect from a company that is guilty of the accusation.

VDO.AI This morning, the story got even worse for the company. Check out this clip that was aired by OANN:

That is a leaked recording of an actual internal Goodyear training seminar. In the recording you clearly hear the speaker – who is without any question at all communicating company policy – openly telling people that the company outright endorses race-based discrimination, telling the employees that wearing “black lives matter or LGBTQ pride on their face coverings, shirts or wristbands…will be deemed appropriate…However, if any associate wears all, blue or white lives matter shirts or face coverings, that will be not appropriate.”

Get it? Black lives good, white lives bad.

Not only is this policy advocating actual race-based discrimination reprehensible, it is also very likely completely illegal under U.S. law. The company could probably get away with denying the right to wear shirts or other clothing displaying slogans like “blue lives matter” and “all lives matter,” but directly punishing employees for for “white lives matter” stuff could truly be a bridge too far.

All of which explains why the only intelligent policy for a company to adopt is a policy against any sloganeering in the workplace. But at Goodyear, it is obvious that the temptation for management to engage in politically-correct virtue signaling was too strong to resist.

Let the lawsuits begin.

That is all.

[Cowboy Bob]

The CEO needs to resign.

[Bayard]

Woke kids got into the management dept, the ones responsible need to be fired. And a lesson needs to be learned by corporate America. Get woke, go broke.

[treetopsandroofs]

Meh.

When CFA told us they were supporting Planned Parenthood, many here told us how much they like their sandwiches.

When CFA told us we should be washing black people’s feet, the endorsements here went down a bit, but not a lot else happened.

Am expecting some to tell us Goodyear tires are good enough to offset their stance, or simply forget about it Nov. 4.

[fuente]

It ain’t kids.. This virtue signalling BS is ubiquitous throughout corporate America. HR is usually the very very worst.

[precisionshootist]

This sounds like an actual appropriate time for a door kicking SWAT raid.

[T.B. Yoits]

Let loose the class-action lawyers for this clear discrimination recorded for all to see.

[JennysCool]

So stupid. Why can’t a company simply issue an edict banning ANY political slogan or image on employee clothing? Why be choosy?

[Regulator]

All of this from the whitest corporate gang I’ve ever seen:

https://corporate.goodyear.com/en-US/about/leadership.html

[Red Badger]

Do not buy another Goodyear tire or other product from now on.....................

[KamperKen]

It will be interesting to see the impact on the price of the Goodyear stock. It’s drop slightly since this news broke but it’s a very low-value share to start with, under $10.

The price of a share includes the expectation of future earnings and those earnings will now decline.

[Scrambler Bob]

wearing “black lives matter or LGBTQ pride on their face coverings, shirts or wristbands…will be deemed appropriate
= = =

So what happens if I wear my LGBTQ face mask upside down????

Or Stencil MAGA on my Jock Strap?

[MtnClimber]

This woke company was tanking when the stock market was surging. Racing decreasing radius circles around the toilet bowl is what I call it.

[Secret Agent Man]

I hope goodyear fails

[Secret Agent Man]

Many people can make better chocken sandwiches at home than you can get at chick fi la

[AZJeep]

Probably because it.

[Kriggerel]

Whatever Middle-Management lunks are responsible for this PR disaster should maybe count themselves lucky that the Goodyear CEO isn’t likely to treat them the way Leopold II of Belgium liked to treat *his* rubber-workers... X.x

[forgotten man]

What do you do with 365 used condoms? Melt them down, make a tire out them, and call it a Goodyear.

[cherry]

tried CF once...truthfully, not impressed....and now, with their capitulation, its so easy to never go there for any reason....

I know boycotts seldom work but sometimes they do....

goodyear won't get our business.....

nobody who discriminates against me will get my business...

[pepsi_junkie]

You can be sure it’s not originating from them. Their head of HR and/or diversity officer came up with this dumb idea. Letting HR run your business is a bad idea. They are there to execute policy, not make it.