Political commentator and podcast host Robby Starbuck revealed the weakness of radical corporate DEI during a NewsNation appearance after Ford became the latest company to renounce the leftist ideology.
Starbuck spoke with NewsNation anchor Leland Vittert on the Wednesday edition of On Balance With Leland Vittert. When Vittert expressed surprise at the “lack of pushback” against Starbuck’s repeatedly successful campaigns, Starbuck explained that corporate DEI advocates like the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) do push back, but are too weak to survive a substantial challenge.
“[H]ere’s the thing that this campaign has proven: they really do not have a sizable public support,” Starbuck said. “That's the issue is that they've had these, you know, sort of conglomerate groups like the HRC as their attack dogs for a long time. But in reality, how many real people were behind that? And the answer is not very many.”
On Wednesday, Ford announced in an email that the company would no longer participate in the HRC’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI). which pushes companies to adopt many radical policies such as allowing men in women’s restrooms and “healthcare coverage for medically necessary transition-related care.”
Ford also promised that previously-segregated Employee Resource Groups would be open to all employees. It also categorically denied using quotas for hiring, dealers, suppliers or compensation. In a post on X, Starbuck announced that he preemptively received word of Ford’s decision while investigating corporate DEI at the company.
On Wednesday evening, Starbuck told Vitter that corporate DEI was ripe for destruction. Starbuck went on to describe the secret weakness of the pressure groups like HRC that push DEI. “They essentially have been the vehicle to push these politics throughout corporate America,” Starbuck said, referring to HRC. “And so these companies got fooled into believing that there's some army there that does not exist. It was all a house of cards, somebody just had to press the first card.”
A lot of cards have fallen. Since June 27, Tractor Supply, Harley-Davidson, Jack Daniel’s parent company Brown-Furman and Lowe’s have also revealed that they have cut ties with the HRC.
The bereaved formerly effective LGBTQ+ pressure group responded to Ford’s decision.
“Today, @Ford ABANDONED its values and commitments to an inclusive workplace, cowering to MAGA weirdo Robby Starbuck,” the HRC wrote in a post on X. The HRC went on to threaten Ford, saying, “[W]e won’t forget this shortsighted decision and its impact.”
In a response on X, Starbuck rebuked the HRC, once again arguing that the DEI movement has little public support:
“Hilarious. Sorry @HRC but your spending power is nothing compared to conservatives who buy Ford trucks. Literally nothing. You have no sizable public support which is why your people won’t debate me. Your influence in corporate America was a house of cards and I pushed the first card to topple it. Your support comes from woke government, globalist elites, gender studies professors and college Marxists. My support comes from everyday working class people who make our country run everyday.”
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