and social-justice warriors are strange bedfellows. Yet many American companies have embraced leftist causes. In 2016 PayPal cancelled its expansion in North Carolina after the state began limiting transgender people’s choice of bathroom. When Donald Trump instituted a travel ban on people from Muslim countries, 164 firms signed legal briefs opposing it. And following a mass shooting in 2018 Delta, an airline, ended discounts for members of the National Rifle Association.
Yet in a two-party system, firms cannot order a main dish of tax cuts with criminal-justice reform on the side. Democrats back social liberalism and tighter state control of corporations; Republicans espouse the opposite. Do supposedly socially tolerant companies donate more to leftists than to candidates on the business-friendly right?
What? Mega corporations are only saying they support progressive causes on the outside to pander to a younger demographic? I’m shocked! Capitalism may not be a good as I originally thought!
And they should. If a business isn’t focused on profit they won’t be a business very long.
Without a conservative landscape the extracted data would not likely exist.
How is that news?
Really?!? I can't believe it!!🙄😋
'wokeness index', what times we live in.
companies & people practicing selective 'wokeness', what a joke
Ayyyyy turns out capitalism is still broken! Great work there team
You're The Economist, please don't use the term woke....
being woke is being able to see the manipulation of the masses. People who do not vote are woke for example. someone who does vote is definitely not woke. I think that word has taken a strange definition lately
Does supporting democrats increase the wokeness index? There's some democrats stuck in the dark ages too
“Business friendly republicans” - that’s a vague & misleading statement
Because “woke” companies prefer to back the economy friendly Dems over “business” friendly Reps
That’s poetic!
What’s a woke company? If you’re going steal some groups slang think instead of using fucked instead. Which fucked up companies donate (payoff) conservatives. I never saw you write which companies are groovy in the sixties.
Not really that surprising lol
Yep, I love Wendy's than, no matter what they do 😂😂😂👍👍👍
Being woke isn’t what makes you left wing. Supporting the following does - GreenNewDeal - MedicareForAll - LivingWage - FreeCollege - EndtheWars Basically no big corporation supports these things
You make linear regression fitting to a shotgun pattern.
I'm embarrassed for humanity that 'woke' has become a unit of measurement
The business friendly right? Like us tax payers paying trumps golf coarse for pence to stay there right now. Then yea I guess so. Democrats aren’t that greedy!
Certainly yes.
Virtue signal with Democrats for marketing publicity or get tax breaks with Republicans.
I cannot believe admitted this. Is there a change in the wind?
No shock
alllibertynews WTF are you talking about?
as soon as someone says they are woke, I totally disregard their biased arrogant opinions
cc WokeCapital
Given how unpopular wokeness is should companies want this released to the public?
Duh. And Dems return the favor. On the take.
'We need to make the markets serve us rather than the other way around.' Profit-maximizing leads to extreme policies/outcomes. We need gov leaders focused on the public interest above all else and lead companies in that direction. - AndrewYang
Let alone Corporate, I’m doubtful about social responsibility.
Dear FT: you purport to be a professional publication. Please, “do good english.” Stop with the “He woke” and similar sentence structure. Use proper grammar.
arjenlubach check dit een wokeness index. Waar scoort die Chick uit je voorstelling?
So what's the Y-axis? Rule 1 - label your axes.
LKD5210 recently discussed how a lot of consumer dollars are going to left-leaning causes and listed the many companies. It's a fascinating read!
Being 'woke' usually means the opposite of being liberal.
That linear regression on a circle of data points LOL, well analyzed trend
How is this freaking news? Gonna tell us salt is salty next?
It’s in national interest of your country too
Get broke, go woke!
Did Pepsi lead in wokeness because of that Jenner ad? 🤣
Should the preference of companies matter? I thought the point of democracy was that a country's citizens got to choose their government, not corporations.
Misrepresented 'woke'
Why do people no longer label their X and Y axis and include solid lines for both. Graphs are wrong without them. Period.
Suckers
Can we put “woke” to sleep?
We needs less woke and more rational people
No shit
I love graphs
It may seem oxymoronic that corporate entities deeming themselves democratic because of their trumpted awakening to the social ideals of inclusivity and diversity should be propelled by the economic compulsions of their bottom line to turn to the Republicans for gravitas.
Goddamn markets on fire. What are you doing?
In reality, there is no any social responsibility let alone corporate social responsibility currently.
Delta airlines spreads anti-union propaganda telling employees to buy a videogame console rather than form an union... is this woke?
Wokeness...really? Smh
I would love a more thorough look at the differences (and similarities) between what firms say and actually do in the realms of environmental and social justice.
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