{"id":1068762,"date":"2021-11-30T15:39:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1068762"},"modified":"2021-11-30T15:40:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:40:12","slug":"best-buy-and-levis-offer-employees-a-racial-trauma-specialist-to-heal-after-rittenhouse-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/best-buy-and-levis-offer-employees-a-racial-trauma-specialist-to-heal-after-rittenhouse-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Buy and Levi\u2019s offer employees a \u2018racial trauma specialist\u2019 to heal after Rittenhouse verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbest-buy-and-levis-offer-employees-a-racial-trauma-specialist-to-heal-after-rittenhouse-verdict%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1068762&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Best Buy and Levi Strauss have in effect told their employees that the Kyle Rittenhouse not-guilty verdict was in error, that the right to self-defense does not exist, and that violent rioters should have been allowed to attack the armed then-17-year-old with impunity that night in Kenosha, Wis.<\/p>\n<p>Both companies face boycotts after they showily offered employees mental-health counseling after the Rittenhouse verdict, which did not go the way leftists hoped it would, DailyMail.com reports.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that next time blue jeans, electronics or appliances are on the shopping list: Would Levi\u2019s or Best Buy have offered counseling to mortified employees if Rittenhouse were found guilty?<\/p>\n<p>Following the teenager\u2019s acquittal, both companies sent memos out to employees offering counseling, with Levi\u2019s even offering a \u201cracial trauma specialist\u201d to \u201cencourage healing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Best Buy\u2019s \u201cChief Inclusion, Diversity &amp; Talent Officer,\u201d Mark Irvin, encouraged triggered employees to \u201ctake advantage of our mental health services, including the Life Solutions counselling services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it\u2019s all just a way to tell captive audiences how they should be feeling \u2013 and thinking \u2013 if they are interested in continuing or being promoted at their respective companies.<\/p>\n<p>But on social media the companies are being slammed for their wokeness, with many people threatening to boycott stores or cancel their orders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c@BestBuy is actually offering counseling to employees for the jury getting the verdict in the Rittenhouse trial correct. They just lost a long standing customer in me,\u201d one user wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Another condemned Levi Strauss, writing: \u201cThe race for most woke company marches on and I can no longer buy 501s, which I have worn for 40+ years. These idiots destroy everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c@BestBuy just found out about ur memo on the Rittenhouse verdict to ur employees, in response I cancelled the $2500 Macbook on order n the appt to have stereo work done on my truck $1100 n there\u2019s more like me [sic],\u201d another Twitter user wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will never, ever buy anything from Best Buy again. They offered counseling services to employees after Rittenhouse verdict\u2026 WTF?\u201d posted yet another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Buy and Levi Strauss have in effect told their employees that the Kyle Rittenhouse not-guilty verdict was in error, that the right to self-defense does not exist, and that violent rioters should have been allowed to attack the armed then-17-year-old with impunity that night in Kenosha, Wis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}