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🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | In June, a video posted on X drew a lot of attention. |
0:10.0 | You're going to want to see this. |
0:11.1 | I don't think anybody's gone into this the way I'm about to. |
0:13.6 | It is time to expose tractor supply. |
0:15.6 | Would you see behind... |
0:16.5 | Tractor supply is a retail chain based in Tennessee. It sells farm supplies, |
0:21.6 | pet and animal feed, stuff like that. |
0:24.0 | But the man in the video wasn't talking about tractors or fertilizer. |
0:28.0 | Instead, he was calling out the company's corporate policies. |
0:32.0 | I want to see that I take no pleasure in doing this. out the company's corporate policies. |
0:32.9 | I want to state, I take no pleasure in doing this. |
0:35.0 | I am at Tennessee and I do not want to hurt a Tennessee company. |
0:37.7 | But conservatives deserve to know that this is where their money's going and it gets worse. |
0:41.8 | He went on to give a seven minute long breakdown of tractor supplies policies |
0:46.0 | around diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI. |
0:50.6 | Oh and look, they have a DEI inclusion council. In fact they're so committed to |
0:55.3 | DEI that they release yearly reports on how many more minorities they're hiring |
0:59.3 | that year. The man who posted the video is named Robbie Starbuck and he took viewers on a tour of what he calls tractor supplies woke initiatives |
1:09.0 | Tractor supplies doing such a good job of being woke that the human rights campaign has given them an A grade. |
1:14.0 | What did they do to... The video went viral and now has 2.8 million views. |
1:19.0 | And it was followed by a slew of other posts from Robbie, criticizing tractor supply and its DEI initiatives. |
1:28.4 | Our colleague Chip Cutter was following the drama. |
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