Ideas flow through financed institutions. The networks that control discourse over race and gender are human resource compliance divisions. HR specialists are networked and trained, and operate across most institutions in the country.
Today, multiple Democratic Senators (Menendez and Cortez-Masto) brought up a McKinsey study on how diversity and inclusion at a board level increases corporate profits. That's a racial justice frame. mckinsey.com/featured-insig…
One reason centralizers love wokeness is because it offers a handy moral language to extend HR compliance across a larger and larger group. People mock HR compliance like everyone thinks it's bad, but HR is an important force in society with many trained professionals.
There's a direct legal connection. Civil rights laws placed liability on firms, without circumscribing clear rules on how to obey. So executives turned to HR networks to operationalize the laws, and then judges and legislatures began relying on them too.
In other words, HR compliance is what a civil rights movement looks like when no one values labor itself.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Matt Stoller

Matt Stoller Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @matthewstoller

4 Mar
1. So something extraordinary happened today on the anti-monopoly front. And not where you'd expect. Not in Congress. Or at the Federal level. Or in Europe.

But in Arizona.

Some legislators stood up to Apple and Google. And they won. This is the story.

mattstoller.substack.com/p/apple-threat…
2. Google and Apple are monopolies who control what is on your phone. Together they have 99% of the smartphone market. And they both charge high prices to app makers for the right to sell through their app stores. Apple made $64B from this tollbooth. cnbc.com/2021/01/08/app…
3. It’s basically impossible to sell mobile apps without going through the Apple/Google app stores, so they charge high prices - 30% of the take. Credit cards charge 2-3% to a merchant for access to a payment network. That's ten times Visa/MC, and Visa/MC are really greedy!
Read 20 tweets
3 Mar
Arizona legislature debating anti-monopoly bill to force Google and Apple to compete on app distribution. azleg.gov/videoplayer/?c…
Apple has Democrats attacking the app store anti-monopoly bill by attaching an amendment mandating all savings from the bill have to go to consumers. No, this doesn't make any sense. azleg.gov/videoplayer/?c…
Democrats @KelliButlerAZ is just talking about interfering with Apple's right to contract. This is just so insane to have the progressives be the bulwark for big tech monopoly power.
Read 18 tweets
3 Mar
1. A few monopolies you may not know are monopolies. Gore-Tex: "They can make or break you" mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-gore-tex…
2. A new firm called Outside rolling up a set of hiking magazines and tools. mattstoller.substack.com/p/outside-medi…
3. The Pentagon consolidated its 900 contracts with moving companies that move soldiers all over the world into one contract with American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier Group, a firm whose foreign parent was found guilty of price-fixing. mattstoller.substack.com/p/contract-bun…
Read 4 tweets
25 Feb
House Antitrust hearing on how to break up big tech platforms is starting.
This hearing is the legislative follow-through on Congress's critical investigation into big tech. These hearings are where actual policy change occurs. @econliberties's @mh4oh will be testifying on the need for break-ups.
Now @davidcicilline is talking about Facebook as a key vector for the organizing of the riot at the Capitol. Zuckerberg said he would do nothing about it, and Cicilline says that's because of a lack of competition. He doesn't fear market repercussions.
Read 20 tweets
23 Feb
Dems in Arizona were bought off by Apple. Very ugly situation.
Wow Democrat @CharleneforAZ read off talking points praising the security of the iPhone and app store. There's a serious problem with progressive legislators doing whatever big tech wants. azleg.gov/videoplayer/?c…
It's amazing to see progressives @CesarChavezAZ straight up going libertarian in Arizona. The legislature, he said, shouldn't get involved in disputes between private businesses. And let's not use the term monopoly.

Chavez praises ALEC and the Goldwater institute!
Read 4 tweets
22 Feb
"The proposal calls for platforms to pay into a trust fund, which would in turn pay for news organizations to establish robust fact-checking services."

Nightmare idea. Let's address no actual problems but create lots of new ones!
A lot of media reformers are ripping off the mask and asserting they just don't want private media outlets anymore. Their view is newsgathering should be financed and fact-checked by the government.
As @RrjohnR has written extensively, advertising has been a key mechanism to prevent the control of private media by the state since the early 1800s. Are people really that naive they imagine media that is nearly all state-funded will be a check on state power?
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!