Companies Backtracking on DEI, Worldviews in Car Commercials, and Release Time in Public Schools
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 29 November 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
The DEI fad is fading among corporations, two recent commercials for car companies display very divergent worldviews and allowing public school students to leave class for religious instruction is getting pushback in some states.
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Segment 1 - Companies Backtracking on DEI
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Segment 2 - Worldviews in Car Commercials
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Segment 3 - Release Time in Public Schools
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a special Thanksgiving week edition of Breakpoint this week, where we're |
| 0:06.8 | talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview. Today, we're going to |
| 0:10.7 | talk about American corporations backing away from some of their DEI commitments. We're also going |
| 0:17.3 | to talk about two very different car commercials and what they tell us about this cultural moment. So we have a lot to get to today. We're also going to talk about two very different car commercials and what they tell us about |
| 0:22.0 | this cultural moment. |
| 0:23.1 | So we have a lot to get to today. |
| 0:24.8 | We're so glad you're with us. |
| 0:25.9 | Please stick around. |
| 0:29.5 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week from the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center. |
| 0:37.3 | John, our audience will be |
| 0:38.7 | listening to this on Black Friday, I think is when this will post. Also Saturday, is there |
| 0:43.7 | a name for, oh, small business Saturday, maybe. So in the spirit of all the shopping that will be |
| 0:48.6 | taking place after our feasting, what a strange series of holidays we have here and the lovely US of A. In the spirit of |
| 0:56.9 | all that shopping, I have a really fun announcement to make to let you know and our audience as well. |
| 1:02.5 | A lot of the stores that you're going to be shopping at on Friday have decided to stop yelling at |
| 1:08.4 | you and to stop telling you explicitly about all of their views on human sexuality, |
| 1:14.1 | which almost seems as weird as having a string of holidays related to eating turkey and then shopping, |
| 1:19.7 | that they were ever doing that in the first place. But of course, right now I'm talking about |
| 1:23.9 | Walmart is just the latest in a long list of major national brands that have |
| 1:28.7 | made a recent announcement that they're going to do away with some of these DEI, you know, |
| 1:34.5 | anti-racism and other related either, you know, marketing initiatives. I think Walmart in its |
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