A Response To Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon And Other Business Executives: Virtue Signalling Is Not Virtuous

"..As we watched the events and the response from President Trump over the weekend, we too felt that he missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together by unequivocally rejecting the appalling actions of white supremacists. His remarks today were a step in the right direction and we need that clarity and consistency in the future."

Heaven knows there's no shortage of 'leaders' looking to capitalize on this. Just like other CEO's handing in their resignations to Trump. 

If I'm Trump, I take their letters and say, 'Buh-bye. Don't let the turn hit you on the way out.'

Now that I have this out of the way. What Doug wrote is horseshit.

Here's why.

He didn't miss anything. Leave aside the recent phenomena of demanding a President respond to local affairs is absurd for a second. I choose to go back to Obama's tenure whenever an overblown event took place.

I seem to recall Obama repeatedly choosing to play politics rather than 'bring our country together'. At its most critical moments, he chose divisive rhetoric instead of inclusive speech. Did you, Doug give a shit when Obama invited BLM to The White House days after one of their own murdered five police officers? A more sickening display of tone deaf arrogance I've never seen. Trump is a piker next to Obama when it comes to such classless displays.

Meanwhile, the President has repeatedly brought up the real elephant in the room with the violence in Chicago and other urban centres burning under decades of Democrat rule. 

And what did he get for that? SILENCE. Silence from you and others. I didn't see 'business leaders' from Starbucks, Facebook, Intel, Under Armour (gee, he fell into line quickly), applaud the President challenge Chicago to once and for all put an end to the sickening display of violence.

Nah. Much easier to sit on your ass and virtue signal about a disjointed rag-time band of white supremacist no one pays any attention to. Or to simply dismiss bringing this statistical reality as 'racist'. 

Of course you didn't care. Virtue signalling against a black President would have been horrible optics for you and your company often on the wrong side of the popularity scale among the left.

And what of the left and their well-organized mobilization tactics that serve to provoke as well as their absurd rhetoric and violent behaviour reminiscent to the 'organs' so darkly described in Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago? Have you not been paying attention to their attacks on free speech on campuses? Did you not notice their illiberal beliefs actually become policy that directly contradict our Western classical liberal values?

Why do they get a continuous pass? Why?

When that piece of shit left-wing professor smacked a bystander with a bike lock nearly killing him, did you take to pen?

Yet, you pile on a group of people who could only dream to have such power. 

No, Doug. The danger right now is the growing power of the left. And guess who the left hate, Doug?

That's right: FREEDOM AND HUMAN AGENCY.

And corporations. In case you haven't noticed.

We'll be the first lined-up and shot. I can't believe we have to keep saying this despite the wealth of evidence the death and destruction left-wing ideologies has left in its degenerate wake. 

Which makes your comment all the more baffling and absurd and without genuine merit.

Trump chose to be more measured. But it's better to be emotional and say bull shit, right?

And let's not pretend the media and Antifa didn't have their part to play in this event. A sane person would have concluded if people stayed home this would have blown over and no one would have remembered the gathering of a group of people who had every right to assemble regardless of their views.

Once again, the way I see it, you and your ilk side against liberty. 

Chill,and spare us the faux self-righteous jargon-gibberish and do your job by keeping prices low.