Speaker 1: Good Billy Cunningham, the Great America, and welcome this Friday
Speaker 1: afternoon of the Tristate and more. Bengals of course play
Speaker 1: Monday Night against the Dallas Cowboys. But until then, as
Speaker 1: you may know, Linda Hansen as an author and a podcaster.
Speaker 1: She's the founder and president of Prosperity one oh one.
Speaker 1: She's written repeatedly on the issue of from woke to
Speaker 1: what and going back in time just a little bit. Historically,
Speaker 1: it used to be employers were equal opportunity. Signs are
Speaker 1: up everywhere, were equal opportunity. Merit counts. Come and apply
Speaker 1: your race, your color, your sexual orientation, your gender means nothing.
Speaker 1: It's about things such as merit, are you good or not?
Speaker 1: Equal opportunity. Then, for many, many years you went through
Speaker 1: affirmative action, which is we're going to specifically hire individuals
Speaker 1: not based necessarily upon merit, but kind of tip the
Speaker 1: scales toward those who have been underserved in the employment arena. Now,
Speaker 1: wokeism is rampant, and that is also collapsing from woke
Speaker 1: to what. Joining you and I now is Linda Hanson
Speaker 1: and Lenda Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show and lending
Speaker 1: Can you first, tell of the American people what is
Speaker 1: the definition of woke? And from woke to what what
Speaker 1: is woke? Before we talk about John Deere and Walmart
Speaker 1: the federal government, what is the so called definition of
Speaker 1: woke because right now wokeism maybe on the rocks. Please
Speaker 1: explain that to the American people.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much for allowing me to be
Speaker 2: on the program. Thank you for the invitation. Woke carries
Speaker 2: many definitions. I think several people describe it differently. But
Speaker 2: I would say that wokism is you know, socialism, and
Speaker 2: it is identity politics. It is really creating division among
Speaker 2: people and judging people not by the content of their
Speaker 2: character or by their merit that you were talking about,
Speaker 2: but by the color their skin, or by their gender
Speaker 2: or you know why people are chosen because of the
Speaker 2: oligarchs or the elites decide that they should be what
Speaker 2: Gism takes away of freedom, and it takes away individuality,
Speaker 2: and it divides people, and it's something that we need
Speaker 2: to get out of our society if we're going to
Speaker 2: keep America free for future generations.
Speaker 1: Then I'll be based upon Meret, explain what happened this
Speaker 1: the idea of hiring and firing. DEI diversity, and DEI
Speaker 1: is incorporated into the body politic. It's really into the groundwater.
Speaker 1: And DEI exists in large ways in corporate America and
Speaker 1: the universities and colleges and government, et cetera. And as
Speaker 1: far as DEI, how deep into the body politic? For
Speaker 1: those marching Marxists who come out of college, how deep
Speaker 1: is that into their soul? Into their cellular structure. DEI
Speaker 1: has been pounded into the minds of children, now young adults,
Speaker 1: and now and the thirties and forties, they dominate companies,
Speaker 1: dominate universities. Explain how deep into the body politic DEI
Speaker 1: has been within universities, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Oh, it is very very deep. Think about what's happened
Speaker 2: in public education over the last several generations. Right, this
Speaker 2: has just been permeated into our public education, into our universities.
Speaker 2: And that is why I feel so called to do
Speaker 2: what I do, which is helping employers to educate employees
Speaker 2: about policy issues that affect their jobs. But it's not
Speaker 2: just about policy issues. It's about you know, first, what
Speaker 2: is prosperity. Prosperity isn't money, it's human flourishing and freedom.
Speaker 2: Why do we have the opportunity for that here in America?
Speaker 2: You know, it seems like in our public education systems
Speaker 2: and in our universities, they've been taught to hate America.
Speaker 2: They've been taught to hate anybody who's French, you know,
Speaker 2: hate the white male, hate anybody who says, you know,
Speaker 2: transgender men can have babies or can't have babies, or
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, they're just taught to divide by
Speaker 2: skin color everything. But I'm saying, look at what America is.
Speaker 2: We have this absolutely beautiful treasure in our constitution which
Speaker 2: protects our god given rights. Government doesn't give us our rights,
Speaker 2: it protects us. And that's one thing we need to
Speaker 2: re educate these young people about. And I say young
Speaker 2: because even you know, twenty thirties forties in the workplace
Speaker 2: don't understand this. So we need to do that. Then
Speaker 2: we need to help them understand the basic economics of prosperity,
Speaker 2: which is, you know, a business is what drives the economy.
Speaker 2: It isn't government. It's business that drives the economy and
Speaker 2: provides opportunity for people to grow and create wealth, and
Speaker 2: expand and innovate and that is really important. Then how
Speaker 2: do you protect that that's becoming informed, involved, and impactful
Speaker 2: is a basic citizenship. So I'm saying we need to
Speaker 2: replace this wolf training in the workplace with training that
Speaker 2: brings back basic understanding of our American system of government
Speaker 2: and basic understanding of how to protect your own prosperity
Speaker 2: or your opportunity to flourish and be free.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the worst examples of DEI diversity
Speaker 1: equity and inclusion would be Disney. I played a year
Speaker 1: or two ago the Disney training and Disney characters. It
Speaker 1: used to be the wonderful World of Disney. It was
Speaker 1: Tinkerbalty and all. It was these characters, and suddenly wokeism
Speaker 1: and DEI invaded, Disney invaded, John Dare invaded. At the
Speaker 1: Ford Motor Company, I see a story about the University
Speaker 1: of Michigan is trying to get rid of DEI and
Speaker 1: changing it completely. What damage has been done to corporate
Speaker 1: America who embraces the idea of diversity, equity and inclusion,
Speaker 1: which is another form of this crimination. What damage has
Speaker 1: happened to corporate America?
Speaker 2: Oh, I think incredible damage to corporate America. We have
Speaker 2: well one, they've lost the trust of American people who
Speaker 2: have common sense, okay, and then two we see a
Speaker 2: decrease in the performance levels. You know, people should not
Speaker 2: be picked to be airline pilots or doctors or nurses
Speaker 2: or dentists or you know, school teachers based on the
Speaker 2: color of their skin or their declared gender. They should
Speaker 2: be chosen for those roles based on their merit, based
Speaker 2: on their capability to do the job. And as we
Speaker 2: have watched problems with air traffic control, we have watched
Speaker 2: so many issues in not only corporate America, but in
Speaker 2: our government sector. We've seen the inefficiency in government. So
Speaker 2: all these people come up through these you know, universities
Speaker 2: and sayings, and they go into leadership positions in the
Speaker 2: government and in corporations and they're clueless. They're absolutely clueless
Speaker 2: about what really makes the economy work and why our
Speaker 2: nation is so amazing and so worthy of our work
Speaker 2: to protect our founding documents or system of government, and
Speaker 2: it just ends up being chaos. Now, thankfully, I think
Speaker 2: people are waking up to this, so we can go
Speaker 2: from wok to awake. We can go from wok to awake.
Speaker 2: They're waking up to it, but we can't just take
Speaker 2: something out. It's like I tell customers, or I mean companies,
Speaker 2: please call me, contact me, go to prosperity one on
Speaker 2: one dot com. I want to help you replace any
Speaker 2: of that DEI training with a simple course on basic
Speaker 2: American civics and economics, like how does policy affect your paycheck?
Speaker 2: Never telling someone how to, never telling someone what to think,
Speaker 2: helping them understand what types of things they need to
Speaker 2: consider when they go to vote. You know, I have
Speaker 2: done workshops since. One of my favorite stories is one
Speaker 2: time I was doing a workshop in a business and
Speaker 2: I was talking to union route drivers who didn't want
Speaker 2: to be there. It was five thirty in the morning,
Speaker 2: it was work, and they didn't want to be there,
Speaker 2: and especially one was rather intimidating to me. So I said,
Speaker 2: asilum prayer. I said, Lord, I want that one right,
Speaker 2: And as the presentation went on, his body language open up.
Speaker 2: Then at the end he said, so let me get
Speaker 2: this straight right. Those policies up there make it hard
Speaker 2: for Jim over here to pay my paycheck and my benefits.
Speaker 2: Why do I want to vote for people who support
Speaker 2: those policies to which I wanted to jump up and down.
Speaker 2: But that's what we need to do. And so I
Speaker 2: tell employers, please, do not be afraid. Employers have been
Speaker 2: fearmongered into silence, and I say, don't be afraid. Speak
Speaker 2: truth to your employees about what actually makes a difference
Speaker 2: in the bottom line of your business, what actually makes
Speaker 2: a difference so that you can pay their paychecks, you
Speaker 2: can pay a bonus at the end of the year.
Speaker 2: Let them know and communicate and when better communication is
Speaker 2: in the workplace, that encourages loyalty, engagement, retention. I mean
Speaker 2: that increases the bottom line right there. So not only
Speaker 2: do we have people who understand how policy affects their paychecks,
Speaker 2: but then they have a renewed awareness of the blessings
Speaker 2: and responsibilities of living in a free society.
Speaker 1: And Linda Hansen, with Trump's election, that certainly is in
Speaker 1: the forefront. The other day, the US Supreme Court had
Speaker 1: oral arguments on the issue of transgender rights.
Speaker 3: And I'm watching this.
Speaker 1: Panel discussion involving Jordan Peterson, and I love that guy.
Speaker 1: And the liberals said, you have to treat someone as
Speaker 1: a self identify So he said, if I look at
Speaker 1: a person who appears to be a woman, I have
Speaker 1: to first ask what are your preferred pronouns?
Speaker 3: Instead of saying, can you do a job.
Speaker 1: And he made the point that gender or shall I say, sex,
Speaker 1: is determined at conception and then revealed at birth. And
Speaker 1: at that point, whether it's xx or x Y at
Speaker 1: the moment of conception, that particular unborn little baby as
Speaker 1: igoat that sex is determined at conception and then revealed
Speaker 1: at birth. It's immutable. You can't change it. I may
Speaker 1: want to become a Filipino, but I can't become a Filipino.
Speaker 3: I'm a white male. And he made the point.
Speaker 1: And he's talking to his panel and this one transgender
Speaker 1: person who works in an ambulance services for a big
Speaker 1: city hospital, and he asked this person who was transgender
Speaker 1: him or herself, and said, what if you come up
Speaker 1: to an accident scene and there's a person there in
Speaker 1: the backseat and great bodily discomfort who.
Speaker 3: Says, I'm having a baby.
Speaker 1: And so you get into the back seat and you
Speaker 1: do the things that necessary to reveal that part of
Speaker 1: the body that delivers a baby, and you look down
Speaker 1: and you see a penis and this person is telling
Speaker 1: you I'm having a baby. And you look down and say, well,
Speaker 1: you can't have a baby, and that that that that's
Speaker 1: that firefighter slash ambulance worker was shocked with the fact
Speaker 1: that you may look at somebody and who identifies differently
Speaker 1: than what they are, but they're not different from what
Speaker 1: they are the moment of conception. Your sex is not
Speaker 1: assigned by some as sign or it is what it
Speaker 1: is xx or x y, and at birth it is revealed.
Speaker 1: So was it illustrative to say, if a person claims
Speaker 1: to be female and I'm delivering a baby and that
Speaker 1: person as a penis, are they a woman?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: You know, the interesting thing is that ambulance driver by
Speaker 2: saying no, you can't have a baby, you have a penis,
Speaker 2: might actually in our whole culture, which is hopefully changing now.
Speaker 2: But you know, they might have been slapped with the lawsuits. Right.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's the most crazy thing. But you can't
Speaker 2: get milk from a bowl, you can't get eggs from
Speaker 2: a rooster, So I mean, this is just common sense.
Speaker 2: And I think this is one of the things where
Speaker 2: you know, they have tried so hard to divide people
Speaker 2: and to brainwash people into compliance into this, and you know,
Speaker 2: the American people aren't stupid. We may be ill informed
Speaker 2: at times, we may be easily fearmongered sometimes, which we
Speaker 2: have to get past. I tell people, God tells us
Speaker 2: in the Bible three hundred and sixty five times, do
Speaker 2: not fear. I'm with you. So it's like there's one
Speaker 2: for every day. You know, we don't have to fear.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing, this whole identifying as right. Okay,
Speaker 2: So does that mean an able bodied athlete can identify
Speaker 2: as disabled and then go compete in the Paralympics.
Speaker 1: I mean where we're Yeah, yes, absolutely absolutely, that's talk
Speaker 1: about the specifically, the Ford Motor Company explain and they've
Speaker 1: caught so much flak. I see stories in the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal. They're two hundred thousand employees backing away from
Speaker 1: so called DEI explain the Ford Motor Company, the history
Speaker 1: of the resolution, and then the blowback.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, the blowback too has been incredible in
Speaker 2: terms of people not wanting to abide by this. This
Speaker 2: left is just transgender DEI crt everything. It's people are
Speaker 2: fed up, and you know it isn't just Ford. But
Speaker 2: you look just recently Walmart and I applaud Robbie Starbuck
Speaker 2: If there's any listener out there who hasn't started following
Speaker 2: Robbie or landing Starbuck about what they're doing to get
Speaker 2: these companies to get rid of this ridiculous stuff in
Speaker 2: the workplace, please do. Walmart just recently decided they're going
Speaker 2: to take DEI out of their training programs, and they're
Speaker 2: going to stop funding pride parades, and you know, John
Speaker 2: Deere and Tractor Supply, these these you know, it's like,
Speaker 2: did they forget that our customers are I mean, like
Speaker 2: the farmers and people, Like seriously, you're telling me that
Speaker 2: people in the Midwest who shop a trust or Supply
Speaker 2: and drive a John Deere out on their farm are
Speaker 2: going to like all this stuff.
Speaker 3: No, No, And.
Speaker 2: We don't want drag shows for preschools, you know, we
Speaker 2: don't want that, and we don't want these companies funding that.
Speaker 2: And like what Robbie always says is, we don't have
Speaker 2: to agree about everything, like they don't have to you know,
Speaker 2: expouse every single belief that we have. We're just saying,
Speaker 2: be neutral. Just be a company that sells products and
Speaker 2: services and is neutral. And now, as I was saying before,
Speaker 2: I would love to help companies pro something because what
Speaker 2: I have, my online course, my resources and things are neutral.
Speaker 2: It really is. It never tells someone who to vote for.
Speaker 2: It isn't party or anything like that. It's basic understanding.
Speaker 2: And that's what we need to do. We need to
Speaker 2: help people understand the basics and be able to come
Speaker 2: to their mindset themselves. You know, we can't tell them
Speaker 2: how to think, or we can't tell them what to think.
Speaker 2: We have to help them learn how to think and
Speaker 2: not just take things in. We have a culture that
Speaker 2: has just been spoon fed, and you know, and they
Speaker 2: come up through I'd like to have your listeners to
Speaker 2: sink with me. Let's flip the script. They come up
Speaker 2: through grade school, high school, you know, college, they learn
Speaker 2: how to hate America, they learn that capitalism is bad.
Speaker 2: They learn all this and they learn to be entitled.
Speaker 2: And then they go into the workplace and they're carrying
Speaker 2: all these values. Like you said, how deep is it?
Speaker 2: How deep?
Speaker 3: It's very deep.
Speaker 2: And they go into the workplace and they demand all this.
Speaker 2: But they're just in privately held companies alone, there's like
Speaker 2: sixty million employees, right, So what if a percentage of
Speaker 2: them started to wake up and realize, wow, you know,
Speaker 2: we really have a great system of governments here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we need businesses to be healthy so that we can
Speaker 2: have freedom. We need businesses to be healthy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I tell.
Speaker 1: You the industry itself, according to the Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 1: it is about eight billion dollars of an industry around
Speaker 1: the issue of DEI and transgender rights. And don't make
Speaker 1: great forward products or great tractors. It's a corporate mission
Speaker 1: is to change America to the left towards socialism. And
Speaker 1: for someone to be part of an eight billion dollar
Speaker 1: industry and have the lend the Hanson's of the world
Speaker 1: saying we need to change that. You have one hell
Speaker 1: of a fight ahead of you because at eight billion dollars,
Speaker 1: they're going to fight like warrior posts to keep their money.
Speaker 1: But once again, Lenda Hansen, what is your website? How
Speaker 1: can people contact you? Especially employers and employees. These kids
Speaker 1: have been indoctrinated, not educated, but indoctrinated with hatred of
Speaker 1: the country. You don't see too many American flags flying
Speaker 1: around the UCLA campus. And the difficulty is has taken
Speaker 1: us about twenty years to get here and may take
Speaker 1: twenty years to get out.
Speaker 3: What is your website? If any so people can learn
Speaker 3: more information.
Speaker 2: My website is prosperitywe on one dot com. Please contact
Speaker 2: me there and you know, let's help flip the script.
Speaker 2: I believe employers are the last front here. If employers
Speaker 2: don't start re educating these twenty thirty forty euros in
Speaker 2: the workplace, who will Lenda Hanson Employers join with me?
Speaker 1: Please because it's one hell of a fight. I see
Speaker 1: signs online. Keep your hands off our DEI a lot
Speaker 1: of money at stake. It's not about crucifying the United
Speaker 1: States of America out having equal opportunity based upon merit.
Speaker 1: And Linda Hansen, you're a great American and thank you
Speaker 1: for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Linda Well, thank you. God bless America.
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