{"id":160194,"date":"2024-08-20T10:31:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T14:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=160194"},"modified":"2024-08-20T10:36:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T14:36:21","slug":"harley-flees-dei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=160194","title":{"rendered":"Harley Flees DEI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-160197 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/hdlogo-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/hdlogo-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/hdlogo.jpg 365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Harley-Davidson Ditches European CEO\u2019s Vanity \u2018DEI\u2019 Project<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Neil Munro<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Harley-Davidson\u2019s European CEO has backed down on his vanity project to rebrand the company\u2019s motorbikes as his vehicle for globalized \u201cdiversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The retreat from forced \u201cDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion\u201d (DEI), is a third win for for Robby Starbuck, an X-amplified advocate for merit, productivity, and professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother win for our movement,\u201d Starbuck tweeted Tuesday after the company announced it would roll back its mandatory diversity policies. \u201cI couldn\u2019t do this without all of you,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Those imposed policies included top-level support for divisive employee identity groups, for counterproductive demands to buy components from suppliers who emphasize their \u201cidentities\u201d instead of product quality, and for awarding promotions and jobs according to criteria set up by a pro-transgender outside advocacy group.<br \/>\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br \/>\nHarley-Davidson\u2019s CEO is Jochen Zeitz, an imported German executive. He has described himself as a Taliban-like supporter for DEI and \u201csustainability.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2024\/08\/20\/harley-davidson-ditches-european-ceos-vanity-dei-project\/\">Breitbart<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-160195 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/hd-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/hd-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/hd-235x333.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/hd.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>HD Mea Culpa<\/em><\/p>\n<p>HD is saddened by the negativity on social media. How special considering it is entirely self-inflicted, well deserved and was forced to act by customer outrage. What I don&#8217;t see is an apology and the CEO stepping down. That tactic seems to emulate Budweiser which has yet to recover from the Dylan Mulvaney debacle.<br \/>\nThe new logo sucks, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harley-Davidson Ditches European CEO\u2019s Vanity \u2018DEI\u2019 Project Neil Munro Harley-Davidson\u2019s European CEO has backed down on &hellip; <a title=\"Harley Flees DEI\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=160194\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harley Flees DEI<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":160197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[693,188,638],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dei","category-reality-check","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/160197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}