Americas CEOs should avoid Minneapolis, ICE mayhem and stick to running their companies

Back in 2020, after the death of George Floyd, the CEO class joined the left in distorting history.The question is whether the C-suite’s penchant for virtue signaling will reassert itself after the similarly tragic killing of Alex Pretti?It shouldn’t, if only because CEOs should know by now that they aren’t just bad at politics, they actively make things worse.Recall that following George Floyd’s death, racialized re-education sessions began popping up at places like American Express and Bank of America, resulting in lawsuits and employee revolts.Corporate money poured into the coffers of sketchy radical groups like Black Lives Matter.

All those mandated diversity, equity and inclusion hiring policies installed to wipe out alleged racism in the workplace were nothing but a culturally Marxist form of discrimination, even before being deemed illegal by the courts.And yet, virtue signaling is now starting to happen.JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon — in Davos speaking to government leaders and CEOs no less — couldn’t help himself when he hysterically compared ICE enforcement to “five grown men beating up a little old lady,” which sounds like something coming from the p.r.

department of Antifa.The New York Times’ DealBook recently ran a piece titled “Who Will Speak Up,” advocating that more members of the CEO class get involved in this mess in Minneapolis, because “even if you believe an officer acted in good faith or out of fear for his or her life, the frequency of these episodes suggest a systemic training failure.” Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Never miss a story.Maybe it was; I happen to think so.

But it is also a murky situation, not all that much different from what happened in 2020.That George Floyd did not deserve to die goes without saying, but the country didn’t deserve t...