Cautioning that the slide had "created some misconceptions about our policies and our company," Goodyear attempted to fob off blame for the policy on an unspecified third party.Buuuut, it's not going very well:
Insisting it "has always wholeheartedly supported both equality and law enforcement and will continue to do so," the company claimed "the visual in question was not created or distributed by Goodyear corporate, nor was it part of a diversity training class."
The employee who originally leaked the slide claimed it was presented by an area manager during diversity training at the company's Topeka plant and that it was produced in its Akron, Ohio corporate office. Goodyear initially declined to comment on the slide's origins when asked about it by local media on Tuesday, but seems to have had a change of heart on seeing the president's call for a boycott the following morning.
However, it stopped short of embracing MAGA hats in the workplace, instead attempting to rationalize the policy it claimed not to have written by reasoning that "zero tolerance for any forms of harassment or discrimination" requires a ban on "political campaigning for any candidate or political party, as well as similar forms of advocacy that fall outside the scope of racial justice and equity issues."
Manhunt underway for attacker in Portland truck assault: police
Stephanie Pagones, Louis Casiano | Fox News
August 19
Portland police on Tuesday identified a suspect in Sunday night's attack on a truck driver who was seen on video being pulled from the vehicle and violently beaten.
The Portland Police Bureau is on the hunt for Marquise Love, who also goes by the name "Keese Love," for his alleged involvement in the vicious assault that was caught on video and circulated on social media.Officials said in a press release they have made several attempts to find 25-year-old Love, but have so far been unsuccessful. They have said they have probable cause for his arrest.© Portland Police BureauMarquise Love
"The Portland Police Bureau is taking this assault and other incidents of violence extremely seriously," said Chief Chuck Lovell in a statement provided with the press release. "Our Detectives continue to investigate this assault as well as other acts of violence directed toward protestors, but we need more than just videos from social media. In order to hold individuals responsible for criminal acts, we need the public to provide information and refrain from tampering with evidence."
Shortly before 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, police responded to a 911 call from someone who reported that protesters "chased a white Ford" four-by-four truck, which then crashed in the downtown area, according to a department press release. Protesters then dragged the driver out of the vehicle, one caller stated. Another told police an estimated nine to 10 people began "beating the guy," the caller stated.
When police arrived, they discovered the man unconscious and transported him to a local hospital. Another woman appeared to have also been assaulted in the video that circulated on social media.
"Investigators learned that the victim may have been trying to help a transgender female who had some of her things stolen in the area of Southwest Taylor and Fourth Ave., the location where this incident began," police said late Monday.
Investigators said they are hoping to speak with the woman.
The victim has since been released and is home recovering.
After the attack, several media outlets incorrectly identified Love as an employee of the Star Protection Agency, a security firm with an office in Portland, said company COO Bryan Kettler. He told Fox News Love was briefly employed with the firm from January through March as an unarmed security guard.
All the equipment issued to Love while he was a security guard had been accounted for, Kettler said. The attacker authorities believe to be Love was spotted wearing a tactical vest with security patches, which are not part of any uniform issued by Star Protection, Kettler said.
"We decry violence in all forms, and our hearts go out to anyone that has been injured. We hope for their speedy recovery and will fully cooperate with any law enforcement investigation to ensure justice is done," he said. "Any use of Star Protection imaging or logos in connection with this individual is unfortunate and unauthorized."
Anyone with information is asked to call Det. Brent Christensen at 503-823-2087 or at Brent.Christensen@portlandoregon.gov.
Nearly 1,000 groups and pages and over 1,500 ads related to QAnon were removed in Wednesday's purge, while lesser restrictions were imposed on a whopping 10,000 Q-related Instagram accounts (along with almost 1,500 groups and pages on Facebook). The survivors were put on notice that Facebook would be monitoring them for "specific terminology and symbolism" being used to covertly discuss or plot violence.See also:
In an unusual move, Facebook even went after liberal darling Antifa - though very gingerly, referring to "militia organizations and those encouraging riots, including some who may identify as Antifa" in its announcement that some 1,500 groups and pages in this category had gotten the ax.
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However, as Facebook continues to exile ever-broader swathes of online conduct from its platforms, users must invariably ask what constitutes "celebrating violent acts" - a phrase that would seem to describe TV news reporters who wax poetic about "the beauty of our weaponry" as missiles rain down on Syria as much as it does Antifa kids cheering when one of their number lobs a Molotov cocktail into a police car.
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The purge also fails to take into account the Streisand effect, in which attempting to suppress content backfires and ends up drawing even more attention to that content. Twitter announced a similar purge of QAnon-linked users last month, unleashing another round of pearl-clutching stories about the conspiracy theory and raising its national profile. Indeed, several candidates running for office in November are QAnon supporters - a notion which would have been unthinkable had the cult-like adherents of the phenomenon remained undisturbed on their platforms of choice. However, because a central tenet of QAnon is that the 'Deep State' shadow government doesn't want Americans researching its activities, social media's heavy-handed censorship plays right into their hands.
Facebook also recently expanded its already-sprawling list of banned "hate speech" to include blackface makeup and commenting on "Jewish people running the world or controlling major institutions such as media networks, the economy or the government," acquiescing to a lengthy list of demands from censorship advocates, the Anti-Defamation League, following a month-long advertiser boycott.
Comment: It's first about the money and second about control - two fine and lofty reasons to install mental and physical coercion via tech-enabled totalitarianism.