{"id":1493339,"date":"2022-05-26T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1493339"},"modified":"2022-05-26T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T18:45:09","slug":"woke-corporations-really-hate-diversity-of-thought-new-viewpoint-diversity-score-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-corporations-really-hate-diversity-of-thought-new-viewpoint-diversity-score-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Woke Corporations Really Hate Diversity Of Thought, New \u2018Viewpoint Diversity Score\u2019 Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fwoke-corporations-really-hate-diversity-of-thought-new-viewpoint-diversity-score-reveals%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=1493339&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>Corporate America does not like the First Amendment, according to a new business index released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/viewpointdiversityscore.org\/\">Viewpoint Diversity Score<\/a> \u2014 a joint venture between legal nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom and Christian financial firm Inspire Investing \u2014 examines 50 companies on the Fortune 1000 list to determine \u201ccorporate respect for religious and ideological diversity,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/adfmedia.org\/press-release\/adf-rates-50-companies-fortune-1000-list-commitment-free-speech-religious-freedom\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How did those 50 companies score? Not particularly well, according to the project\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/viewpointdiversityscore.org\/company\/meta\">business index<\/a>. The firms averaged 12% on \u201crespecting religious and ideological diversity in the market, workplace, and public square.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA project like this would not have been necessary 30 months ago, let alone 20 years ago,\u201d David Bahnsen, a Manhattan-based wealth management executive and member of the Viewpoint Diversity Score\u2019s advisory council, told The Daily Wire. \u201cAmerican companies have never been willing to sacrifice the profit motive, let alone the First Amendment, for social activism, let alone ill-defined cultural extremism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two industries in particular \u2014 software and internet services \u2014 scored particularly poorly at 6% and 7%, respectively. For instance, Facebook parent company Meta earned a 9% overall rating \u2014 a 13% for promoting diversity in the public square, a 12% for doing so in the workplace, and a dismal 3% for doing so in the market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCEOs and business leaders have positions of considerable power. They shouldn\u2019t weaponize their influence or the companies they run to divide Americans or engage in speech censorship or anti-religious bigotry,\u201d ADF Senior Counsel Jeremy Tedesco said in the release. \u201cInstead of using the cultural power of their brands to drive polarization, business leaders should commit to respecting everyone, regardless of their religion or ideology. Businesses should respect viewpoint diversity at every level of their organizations, from the shop floor to the board room, and externally as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To help businesses understand the importance of guarding viewpoint diversity among their customers and employees, the Viewpoint Diversity Score is offering a variety of <a href=\"https:\/\/viewpointdiversityscore.org\/resources\">research and resources<\/a>, as well as polling on Americans\u2019 thoughts about building \u201ca culture of respect for people who hold diverse religious and social viewpoints.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIdeologically charged business services are bad for everyone, no matter their religious or political views,\u201d Inspire Investing CEO Robert Netzly added in the release. \u201cBy adopting the model policies and strategies we recommend, companies can cement their reputations as tolerant businesses that respect free speech and religious freedom as a standard part of doing business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, a recent poll of American investors conducted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/poll-by-two-to-one-margin-investors-reject-woke-companies-pushing-political-causes\">Echelon Insights on behalf of The Daily Wire<\/a> revealed that respondents want companies to stop preaching and pursue profits. While 29% of respondents agreed it is a \u201cgood thing\u201d for companies to leverage their financial power for political or social means supported by executives, 58% \u2014 twice as many \u2014 said it is a \u201cbad thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked to discern the motives of companies that take stances on political or social issues, 56% of investors said the firms are merely \u201ctrying to appease their critics\u201d and 34% said the firms genuinely \u201cbelieve it\u2019s the right thing.\u201d When companies do take stances on issues, 36% of investors said the stances are \u201ctoo liberal,\u201d while 17% said they are \u201ctoo conservative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe data are clear: everyday investors want companies to focus on creating shareholder value by delivering excellent products and services to their customers, not on advancing social or political agendas,\u201d entrepreneur and former pharmaceutical executive Vivek Ramaswamy told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate America does not like the First Amendment, according to a new business index released on Thursday. The Viewpoint Diversity Score \u2014 a joint venture between legal nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom and Christian financial firm Inspire Investing \u2014 examines 50 companies on the Fortune 1000 list to determine \u201ccorporate respect for religious and ideological diversity,\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1486420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493339","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\/1493339","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1486420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}