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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMarjorie Taylor Greene uses her First Amendment rights to claim the First Amendment is dead
In an interview at the Republican rally in Arizona Sunday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) gives a kind of eulogy to the First Amendment of the Constitution.
"Part of my message today in my speech is I'm going to be talking about how the First Amendment is dead," Green said as the public assembled for the political rally. "They've destroyed free speech, the left has. They've canceled our voices. They cancel our businesses, whether you're a baker trying to bake cakes in Colorado."
As a fact-check, the baker who refused to bake the cake for a gay wedding is still in business in Lakewood, Colorado.
Greene went off on something called the "ESG the environmental social governance people are silenced," and blocked from donating money to campaigns. ESG isn't a company, however, it's " a collection of corporate performance evaluation criteria that assess the robustness of a companys governance mechanisms and its ability to effectively manage its environmental and social impacts," said management consulting company Gartner.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-uses-her-first-amendment-rights-to-claim-the-first-amendment-is-dead/ar-AA12LJ0d
Greene is one of the leaders of the idiocracy movement.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)LakeArenal
(28,844 posts) ESG isn't a company, however, it's " a collection of corporate performance evaluation criteria that assess the robustness of a companys governance mechanisms and its ability to effectively manage its environmental and social impacts,"
Splain in English words what this guy said, Marge, please. Im dying to hear it.
SCantiGOP
(13,873 posts)It is to protect their long-term bottom line. How many companies have been damaged. had their stock prices damaged, and seen executives fired or resigned because of racist policies or statements, or the exposure of damaging environmental activities.
Read the 10 k statement of any company, and you will see that they actually include their brand and their reputation as a positive asset, the same as money in the bank. ESG is a way to protect that asset.
I bet most MAGAs assume that ESG policies are
Government mandates that Biden has imposed on the private sector.