{"id":1986937,"date":"2023-07-31T15:05:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T19:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-slams-woke-esg-initiatives-its-communism-rebranded\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T15:06:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T19:06:47","slug":"elon-musk-slams-woke-esg-initiatives-its-communism-rebranded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-slams-woke-esg-initiatives-its-communism-rebranded\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk criticizes woke ESG initiatives as &#8216;rebranded communism&#8217;."},"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\">18<\/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%2Felon-musk-slams-woke-esg-initiatives-its-communism-rebranded%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=1986937&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>Elon\u2063 Musk: ESG is &#8220;Communism Rebranded&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview, Elon Musk \u200cdidn&#8217;t hold back in criticizing environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG), calling it a &#8220;rebranded&#8221; form of communism. Musk made these remarks during a discussion on an X Space,\u2064 where he expressed his \u200dconcerns about corporations investing in the woke agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Musk stated, &#8220;We\u2062 don&#8217;t basically do \u2064some sort of like bizarre, like\u2063 communism rebranded thing, which is\u200b like a lot of what ESG is \u2063and to be inflicted upon corporate America without the knowledge \u200bof the actual shareholders, which is what&#8217;s going on!&#8221; He further warned that major firms like BlackRock and\u2064 Vanguard are setting themselves up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-slams-woke-esg-initiatives-its-communism-rebranded\/\" title=\"Elon Musk criticizes woke ESG initiatives as 'rebranded communism'.\">potential class action \u2064lawsuits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the interview:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ElonMusk<\/a> \u2062 calls the ESG scam &#8220;communism rebranded,&#8221; \u2062predicting rogue asset managers (like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlackRock?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BlackRock<\/a>) will face the largest class action lawsuits in history over their\u2062 political activism: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HITs0mZfQl\">pic.twitter.com\/HITs0mZfQl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Will \u2062Hild (@WillHild)\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WillHild\/status\/1686005507645911040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not the first time Musk has criticized ESG. In the past, he has even referred to it as the &#8220;devil.&#8221; Independent journalist Michael\u2063 Shellenberger also highlighted the World Economic Forum&#8217;s use of ESG criteria, prompting Musk to \u2062comment that &#8220;the S \u2064in ESG stands\u200c for Satanic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk has also pointed out \u200dthe inconsistencies in ESG ratings. Last\u200b year, he noted that\u200b S&#038;P Global gave ExxonMobil, an oil and gas conglomerate, a high ESG score, while Tesla, a\u200c company focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-gov-newsom-proposes-reducing-climate-change-funding-amid-22-billion-state-budget-deficit\/\" title=\"California Gov. Newsom Proposes Reducing Climate Change Funding Amid  Billion State Budget Deficit\">reducing climate change<\/a> through\u200b electric vehicles, did not make the list.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Musk tweeted, &#8220;Exxon is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sp-drops-tesla-from-environmental-social-and-governance-index-keeps-exxonmobil\/\" title=\"S&#038;P Drops Tesla From \u201cEnvironmental, Social, and Governance\u201d Index \u2013 Keeps ExxonMobil\">rated top ten<\/a> best in the world for environment, social &#038; governance (ESG) by S&#038;P\u2064 500, while Tesla didn&#8217;t make the\u200b list! ESG is a scam. It has\u2063 been weaponized by phony social justice \u2063warriors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exxon is rated top\u2064 ten best in the world for environment, social &#038; governance (ESG) by S&#038;P\u2063 500, \u200cwhile Tesla didn&#8217;t make the\u2062 list!<\/p>\n<p>ESG is \u200ca scam. \u200cIt has been weaponized by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-fumes-as-tesla-booted-from-sp-social-enviro-index-that-lauds-exxon\/\" title=\"Elon Musk Fumes As Tesla Booted From S&#038;P Social-Enviro Index That Lauds Exxon\">phony social justice warriors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2064 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1526958110023245829?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk criticized ESG, calling it a &#8220;rebranded&#8221; version of communism. He expressed his views during a discussion on an X Space, where he talked about corporations adopting the woke agenda. Musk stated that his company does not engage in such practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1986938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986937","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1986938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}