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WORST OF THE WOKE: 2021 The Top 10 most hypocritical institutions of the year — and one “Champion of Tolerance”  Many individuals and organizations gave tremendous lip service to “diversity, equity, and inclusion” throughout 2021, but their actions spoke far louder than their words. Here are the 10 worst offenders: Award Winner: Major League Baseball Reason: The league moved the location of its All-Star Game after announcing in April it could not in good conscience hold the famed (and economy-boosting) annual contest in the same state that passed what critics called a “restrictive” voting law in Georgia, which has at least 17 days of early in-person voting. To demonstrate how “Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box,” MLB moved the game to Colorado, which has 15 days of early in-person voting. At the same time, MLB struck a deal to stream their games in China despite ongoing genocide and human rights abuses in the country. Award Winner: Disney Reason: When it comes to wokeness, the media mega-company was firing on all cylinders in 2021. First, it terminated Mandalorian star Gina Carano for an Instagram post comparing the treatment of conservatives to the Jews during the Holocaust — but her costar Pedro Pascal got off scot-free making the same analogy comparing supporters of President Trump to Nazis. Disney proudly showcases a “Diversity and Inclusion Commitment” on its website, yet the company chose to film parts of Mulan in Xinjiang, a region notorious for religious persecution, even going so far as to thank Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entities responsible for human rights abuses in the movie’s credits. Award Winners: Big Tech Tie — Facebook and Twitter Reason: If it wasn’t for double-standards, Facebook and Twitter wouldn’t have any at all. In September, the Wall Street Journal revealed Facebook had two sets of rules for content — one for “celebrities,” and another for everyone else. In January, Twitter booted then-President Trump from their platform “due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” but were a-OK with CNN contributor Adeel Raja’s drumbeat of anti-Semitic tweets, including one stating, “The world today needs a Hitler.” It’s impossible to say which of the social media behemoths is more hypocritical, so we’re calling this a tie. Award Winner: Elites Who Flouted their Own COVID Rules Reason: As the world endured the second year of the COVID pandemic, a weary public watched with ire as it became clear draconian COVID mitigation measures only selectively applied to politicians, unelected bureaucrats, and entertainment industry stars. Whether it was mayors partying indoors at large gatherings, governors enjoying vacations in states with far less restrictive rules than their own, and celebrities strutting maskless across red carpets and whooping it up at awards ceremonies as masked servers waited at their beck-and-call — there was no shortage of double-standards among the COVID-scolds in 2021. Award Winner: Walmart Reason: Indoctrination isn’t just found on college campuses anymore. In September, Christopher Rufo broke news in City Journal that the largest employer in the United States had been conducting critical race theory (CRT) trainings for its employees — “recommended” for most; mandatory for executives. While giving the green light to controversial CRT trainings at Walmart, CEO Doug McMillon presided over an executive team at the retail giant that employed just a single person of color. Amid an ongoing New Tolerance Campaign call-to-action, the retail giant issued a statement stating they “don’t always agree with every comment made by every participant in a session or endorse every view on a PowerPoint slide produced by others.” Award Winner: CVS Health Reason: Outgoing CEO Larry Merlo ended his tenure at the healthcare giant in January — but not before requiring tens of thousands of his hourly wage employees to attend a lecture about their “privilege.” Privilege? The average salary for a CVS Health employee: $35,529; Merlo’s salary: $22 million. His successor, CEO Karen Lynch, has yet to respond to repeated media inquiries asking if CVS Health would conduct similar sessions under her watch. Award Winner: BlackRock Reason: Managing more than $10 trillion, investment firm BlackRock — a frequent target of leftist activists — announced earlier this year that it would prioritize its investments in “environmental sustainability” and “socially conscious” companies in the United States. At the same time, the Wall Street titan remains heavily invested in China, notorious for its industrial pollution and human rights abuses — a move that made even far-left megadonor George Soros blush. “Pouring billions of dollars into China now is a tragic mistake,” he wrote. “It is likely to lose money for BlackRock’s clients and, more important, will damage the national security interests of the U.S. and other democracies.” Award Winner: Emerson College Reason: If you call out human rights abuses in China, you’re racist — that’s the message Emerson College had for the school’s Turning Point USA chapter in October when the student group passed out stickers on campus stating, “China Kinda Sus,” a reference to the popular online game Among Us. The club was suspended and referred to the school’s Office of Community Standards and Student Conduct. “It is important to denounce all instances of anti-Asian bigotry and hate, and affirm our support and solidarity with the Asian and Asian-American community on campuses and around the world,” Emerson’s Interim President William Gilligan said in reference to the suspension. In December, Emerson promoted a professor who doubted whether black women and white women could be “true friends.” Award Winner: ACLU Reason: Given their roaring silence on freedom of speech issues throughout 2021, the ACLU could use a reminder that the “CL” in their acronym stands for “Civil Liberties.” In June news broke that the litigation colossus — founded on the constitutional principle of defending all speech, no matter how odious — was facing an identity crisis. “There are a lot of organizations fighting eloquently for racial justice and immigrant rights,” former ACLU head Ira Glasser said. “But there’s only one ACLU that is a

News anchor, author, and political commentator: Liz Wheeler has been using her media platform to speak out against hypocrisy and phony tolerance for years. Earlier this year, she graciously accepted an invitation from the New Tolerance Campaign to join our Advisory Board, lending her name to our efforts rallying the grassroots to push back against double-standards and institutions that fail to live up to their stated values. What does this savvy cultural analyst see on the horizon for our society? And what scoops can we expect from her wildly popular podcast The Liz Wheeler Show? Here are “5 Questions with Liz Wheeler”: There are lots of podcasts out there — what makes The Liz Wheeler Show stand out? It all comes back to the theme of the show — personal, researched, and unapologetic. The Liz Wheeler Show is about speaking truth in a logical way. Every episode, I try to walk viewers through my train of thought. I do the research and then walk listeners through how that research has informed my opinions. That way the show becomes a joint effort and when you as viewers then speak reality in your hometowns or in front of your school boards and city councils, you’re able to take that research and express a well-thought-out series of conclusions and speak the truth, even if it’s unpopular. You recently had Christopher Rufo as a guest on your podcast. In recent weeks, NTC partnered with Rufo on campaigns calling out critical race theory trainings at CVS Health and Walmart, and thousands of NTC supporters took action. Why do you think there’s been such a strong response? Critical race theory isn’t a Left-versus-Right or Democrat-versus-Republican issue. Critical race theory is a parents-versus-the Left issue. The Left is trying to indoctrinate adults, as you can see in corporate examples all over the country, but also our children as young as two and three years old. They are targeted by the Left telling them they’re racist or that they’re victims based solely on the color of their skin. Children don’t even know what that means at that age and the idea that kids are inherently racist or inherently victims based on their skin color is false and grotesque. It’s entirely inexcusable for any school to teach this poisonous ideology, and this brainwashing is occurring all across the country. The rejection of critical race theory is not a partisan issue; it is a bipartisan way of saying no to the Left and telling them that we won’t stand for the radical Marxist indoctrination of our youth. Parents of all political stripes understand this. You’ve also been outspoken about Big Tech censorship — and so has NTC. The ironic thing is that Twitter and Facebook would be nothing if they weren’t being used by millions of everyday people — the same people they deplatform, censor, and shadow-ban. What can turn the tide? I wish there was an easier answer to this, but it’s actually more of a long, three-fold plan. The first part is that we need to enforce existing antitrust laws, and we need to repeal Section 230 protections for these Big Tech platforms. But more than that, we have to find a way to compete with Big Tech, which is much harder than it sounds. Competing with Big Tech isn’t just about launching our own social networks, which we’ve seen done with the likes of Locals and Rumble and Parler, but it also means we need web hosting services and server farms and payment processing systems that aren’t tied to Apple or Google. Big Tech will use every ounce of its power to stop us from speaking truth in the face of their radical agenda, and we have to commit to going all the way around it if we are going to turn the tide. To date NTC campaigns have inspired over 39,000 supporters in all 50 states to take action holding accountable higher education, “woke” corporations, social media platforms, and activist nonprofits like the ACLU and SPLC. When it comes to institutions, which do you see as the most hypocritical and most guilty of creating more polarization in our society? Public schools. And I don’t just mean higher education colleges and universities, although they are guilty of being hypocritical and creating polarization. I mean all the way down to primary education K-12 schools. On a national level, we have allowed teachers unions to take hold of our education system and our society at large, but they couldn’t care less about actually educating children. These teacher unions are using their power and influence to push a radical leftist agenda into the minds of our children at any cost—even if it means masking children & incorporating blatantly Marxist ideas into the curriculum. What can subscribers expect to hear in the coming weeks on The Liz Wheeler Show? We just broke a huge story about the Navy violating policy to issue a blanket denial of religious exemptions for the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, and that’s just a taste of what we do on every episode of the show. I aim to be a voice for the voiceless — I call out abuse of power and the individuals abusing power. I illuminate the stories no one else hears about because the mainstream media simply refuses to report them and Big Tech silences you if you talk about them. These stories are happening every day (look at what’s going on in Loudoun County, Virginia) and I want to empower and deputize people to stand up and do something about it. Instead of just bemoaning bad things that happen which makes people feel helpless, I’m giving them tangible, realistic action items we can all use to fight back against radical leftist policies. Follow Liz Wheeler on Twitter and visit lizwheelershow.com for more info.