Sey was next in line as CEO of the storied brand: a job worth tens of millions. Until she started talking of the clear unfairness of closing public schools in California while private schools stayed open (this was early 2020). All her Levi's colleagues were sending their kids to private schools. Which stayed open, so they were just fine, thank you. While the oleaginous California Governor Gavin Newsome shut the public schools for two years….
Jennifer called out the hypocrisy. For that she was eventually eased out of her senior job. By a company proud of its "social justice values". She describes all this and more, so well in the book. How there was a narrative. And you had to follow it slavishly. Or be cast out, heretic!
In the page above she talks more broadly about a trend that we here in Hong Kong and on this blog also noticed early on: how the "salaried class" as called them then — academics, the media, civil servants — nowadays more often called "the laptop class", were just fine working from home, thank you. While the working class was either expected to actually go in to work (eg as delivery drivers and checkout girls) or were stopped from working and making a wage.
We remember. But these hypocrites, who were also wrong, but admitted no wrong. Or, if admitting any wrong say "we were doing our best with what we knew at the time". But we did know better at the time. As did Jay Bhattarachaya. But whose "Great Barrington Declaration" was brutally shut down. Jay was labelled "a fringe epidemiologist" by Anthony Fauci. "We have to shut this down" he emailed his colleagues. But of whom no bad can be said, even today.
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