All things are political today.
Case in point: the Bank of Scotland’s Halifax bank. While businesses used to offer products and services in order to generate a lot of money, they are now seen as ideological initiatives.
Halifax was founded 1853 and certainly wasn’t just a bank when it started. However, society is changing and Halifax doesn’t have the time or resources to deal with prejudices.
According to the British Broadcasting Company Halifax, Halifax has recently displayed its wakefulness. “Pronouns matter,” it heralded via a Tuesday tweet. “#It’sAPeopleThing.”
The post included an employee name tag, complete with “she/her/hers” designation:
It is important to use pronouns. #ItsAPeopleThing pic.twitter.com/vj9UdlBnLy
— Halifax (@HalifaxBank) June 28, 2022
Untold amounts of revulsion poured out. Some said they’d take their money elsewhere while others just pithily sank the bank:
- [This is]Pity signaling.
- Why would you try to discredit people?
- What if a Halifax employee doesn’t want to put pronouns on their lapel, perhaps because they reject the cult of gender ideology? They will be disenfranchised in some way. Prohibited from being promoted? Fired?
- [P]ronouns are the membership card of a dangerous movement…
- The issue that people are having is that activists are trying to inject simple grammar with the ideology of “gender.”
One critic pointed to a personal-pronoun peculiarity; I’ll provide my treatment of it from a previous piece:
One of the most perplexing aspects about the pronoun-craze is that it has no effect on how anyone is called; it simply doesn’t change anything about person-to–person communication.
So if you’re “bunself” to me, you’ll never know. It will be easy for me to use the term.
If I consider you “kittenself,” that’s some mentioned milk you’ll never get to lap: It’ll never be anything I say — at least, so far as you’re aware.
(I call you secretly kittenself).
Hence, provided pronouns aren’t akin to “I’m letting you know my moniker.” Rather their inclusion conveys, “I demand you speak thusly when I’m nowhere to be found.”
As for the backlash, Halifax wasn’t happy. So the non-nonprofit took a stand: If you don’t share the company’s pronoun perspective, don’t let the door hit ya where the woke gods split ya:
“We strive for inclusion, equality and quite simply, in doing what’s right. If you disagree with our values, you’re welcome to close your account.”
We strive for inclusion, equality and quite simply, in doing what’s right. If you disagree with our values, you’re welcome to close your account. ^AndyM
— Halifax (@HalifaxBank) June 28, 2022
Half an hour later, Halifax signaledSafety:
“We want to create a safe and accepting environment that opens the conversation around gender identity. … For us, it’s a very simple solution to accidental misgendering.”
Commerce has quickly changed. The past was a time when companies would work for you. These days, it seems they believe the power dynamic has reversed: You will align yourself with their singular view, or you’ll cease to be a valued customer.
Curiously, if every powerful corporation makes that shift — and if all of them occupy the same issues’ sides — then they do, indeed, have that power.
Talking of HSBC, a rival bank joinedJamboree
“We stand with and support any bank or organization that joins us in taking this positive step forward for equality and inclusion. It’s vital that everyone can be themselves in the workplace.”
So goes corporate culture.
HSBC, Halifax and other banks may offer accommodation for hims and thems. But how high up do they climb on the ladder to enlightenment?
Social justice demands just deserts, and a worker’s truth may need Big Banking to reach another rung.
She/they may be feeling safe behind the loan desk, but what if there’s a wine cake working the window?
Wokedom’s latest confection is here: The ‘Cake Gender’
https://t.co/9jAqKL29hU— RedState (@RedState) May 13, 2022
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