A Minstrel Show with Corporate Sponsors
The scrawny young man named Dylan Mulvaney has spent the last year putting on a digital minstrel show. But instead of putting shoe polish on his face and wearing a kinky black wig while singing “Mammy,” Dylan slaps on make-up and a dress and dolls up his hair in a bouffant while prancing around pretending to be a girl.
And while minstrels in blackface are treated with disdain, a blot on our history that must be erased from existence, for his girlface minstrel show, Dylan has been feted by the elites in this country. He’s been interviewed by fashion magazines and daytime talk shows. Hell, he even got invited to the Biden White House.
Corporate sponsors are lining up to throw money at this gangly boy whose girlface performances are the epitome of stereotype.
Yeah. This boy’s digital minstrel show has corporate sponsors.
In the past week alone, Bud Light and Nike both showered Dylan with cash to be the girlface of their products.
And heaven forbid you have the temerity to find it laughable. You’ll get shamed and lectured by woke scolds like Pete Buttigieg’s husband Chastity.
Anheuser-Busch didn’t make this girlface minstrel the face of Bud Light because the company thinks it will be a boon to beer sales. Nike doesn’t really believe that women will buy more of their workout clothes all because some knobby-kneed boy in girlface pranced around in them.
They don’t care about profits.
But they sure as hell care about receiving a high ESG score from the nonprofit LGBT bean-counting groups that tally such things.
As James Lindsay explained in a Twitter thread last week, the LGBT group Human Rights Campaign Foundation keeps tabs on how corporations do vis-à-vis Culture and Corporate Social Responsibility and then assigns them a “Corporate Equality Index” score.
The criteria for getting a high Corporate Equality Index score include holding LGBT training, having Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion groups, and outreach to the wider LGBT community.
As Lindsay put it:
“If the HRC came to Anheuser-Busch and told them to celebrate Dylan, and they said no, that would be failing ‘responsible citizenship’ and points would be deducted. The Corporate Equality Index is an extortion racket that makes corporations do these things.”
Remember that scene in The Godfather II when Vito Corleone loses his delivery job at the grocer’s because his boss was forced to hire the local mobster’s nephew?
His boss couldn’t say no. It didn’t matter that Vito had a wife and children. He paid that mobster protection money to stay in his good books. And if he didn’t do what the mobster wanted in return, his business might get burned to the ground or the grocer’s son might come to work in the morning to discover his father lying dead in the back room.
This is exactly the same thing but on a corporate scale.
The ESG bullies gave Anheuser-Busch an offer it couldn’t refuse.
If Anheuser-Busch wants continued protection from the ESG mobsters, it damn well better sponsor the knobby-kneed, sunken-chested minstrel in girlface.
It won’t matter if customers flee. It doesn’t matter if profits suffer or if it fails in its fiduciary duty to investors. All that matters is staying in the good books of the ESG-pushing extortionists.
A minstrel show featuring a white guy in blackface is not acceptable. But in today’s culture, a minstrel show featuring a white guy in girlface isn’t just acceptable but must be celebrated and amplified.
And thanks to the ESG bullies, it isn’t enough just to convince you it’s acceptable. The purpose of ESG is to bring the full force of corporate culture to bear to jam the left’s insane ideology down our throats.
As I said last week, we are not permitted to ignore performative nonsense like Dylan and his girlface minstrel show. It will be shoved in our faces 24/7.
If blackface minstrels had that kind of corporate power behind them, maybe classic films and TV shows featuring blackface wouldn’t have to come with a trigger warning at the beginning.
Think I’m kidding? The episode of Mad Men that featured Roger Sterling in blackface now includes this warning at the beginning:
“This episode contains disturbing images related to race in America. One of the characters is shown in blackface as part of an episode that shows how commonplace racism was in America in 1963. In its reliance on historical authenticity, the series producers are committed to exposing the injustices and inequities within our society that continue to this day so we can examine even the most painful parts of our history in order to reflect on who we are today and who we want to become. We are therefore presenting the original episode in its entirety.”
Bud Light made a big show of standing by its decision to sponsor Dylan’s girlface minstrel show. But now that you know how the sausage was made, you can understand just how phony the “we stand by this” statement was.
Like Vito Corleone’s boss, Bud Light has to stand by its decision because standing up to the ESG extortionists comes with a price that corporations are too fearful to pay.
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