After decades of celebrating liberal activists for exerting pressure on corporations to end racism, clean up the environment, support abortion rights and “ voting rights ,” the media is now panicking over belated counter-actions by conservatives against such corporate activism.
A New York Times front-page story Friday by environmental beat reporters David Gelles and Hiroko Tabuchi laid out the accusation in the headline: “G.O.P. Weaponizes Statehouses Against Green Corporate Goals.” Liberals apparently don’t “weaponize” against free markets. The online headline writer preferred the term “punished”: ” How an Organized Republican Effort Punishes Companies for Climate Action .”
They started with examples, including the state of West Virginia, which pulled money from proudly “woke” asset manager BlackRock for tagging climate change as an economic risk. The reporters warned “Conservative lawmakers in 15 other states are promoting similar legislation.”
It may seem odd for mainstream journalists to fight alongside the world’s largest financial manager […]
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