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Former Levi Brand President Offered $1M Bribe To Keep Opinion On COVID Restrictions Quiet
Posted On 20 Feb 2022
Levi’s former Brand President Jennifer Sey claims she was offered $1 million dollars by the company to stay silent about why she was fired – for her criticism of COVID restrictions and particularly the closure of schools.
Sey made the assertion in an article posted to the Common Sense channel on Substack run by Bari Weiss.
The gymnast had worked with Levi’s for two decades having previously competed at the 1986 Goodwill Games in Russia.
However, she was fired after being targeted by a mob campaign because she dared to suggest that making children wear masks and forcing them to miss school might be harmful.
“Anonymous trolls on Twitter, some with nearly half a million followers, said people should boycott Levi’s until I’d been fired,” Sey wrote. “So did some of my old gymnastics fans. They called the company ethics hotline and sent emails.”
As we previously highlighted, Sey is completely correct in her criticism given that speech therapists are now reporting a 364% increase in patient referrals of babies and toddlers over developmental disorders caused by mask wearing.
After CEO Charles Bergh told Sey that if she stopped speaking out, she’d eventually become the company’s next CEO, Sey briefly muted her dissent.
However, thanks to the mob pressure, Sey was told her position was “untenable” and was then offered $1 million dollars to not reveal why she was fired.
“The money would be very nice. But I just can’t do it. Sorry, Levi’s,” wrote Sey.
“I never set out to be a contrarian. I don’t like to fight. I love Levi’s and its place in the American heritage as a purveyor of sturdy pants for hardworking, daring people who moved West and dreamed of gold buried in the dirt.”
“But the corporation doesn’t believe in that now.”
“It’s trapped trying to please the mob—and silencing any dissent within the organization. In this it is like so many other American companies: held hostage by intolerant ideologues who do not believe in genuine inclusion or diversity.”
Revealing that she was also labeled “racist” for speaking out against COVID restrictions, Sey wrote that she decided to keep her voice rather than take the money.
“Early on in the pandemic, I publicly questioned whether schools had to be shut down.”
“This didn’t seem at all controversial to me. I felt—and still do—that the draconian policies would cause the most harm to those least at risk, and the burden would fall heaviest on disadvantaged kids in public schools, who need the safety and routine of school the most.”
“In the summer of 2020, I finally got the call.”
“‘You know when you speak, you speak on behalf of the company,’ our head of corporate communications told me, urging me to pipe down.”
Despite pleading that she was merely speaking in a personal capacity as “a public school mom of four kids,” Sey said the final straw was when she appeared on Fox News with Laura Ingraham and criticized further school closures.
Levi Strauss & Co. subsequently released a false statement claiming Sey had “resigned from the company.”
In reality, she was fired after intense pressure and relentless phone calls from people at every level of the company, right up to the CEO.
But remember folks, cancel culture doesn’t exist!
Original Article: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/levis-brand-president-was-offered-1-million-shut-about-being-fired-over-criticizing-covid
Nothing Levis for me. These leftist just drive me up a wall. It’s their way or the hi-way.
Sad that our Country has become one in which Freedom of Speech no longer exists. This Cancel culture is disgusting!!!
Thank God my children are grown!!!!
It’s all wrong. I’m proud of her for her stance. I’m a mom and a grandma and know most of this nonsense is all about control. I get it that for many they are in fear. I’m in my 70’s and I get it. Covid was like a slight cold for me. The fear has caused more problems then what could be measured. Lives have been lossed on so many levels besides Covid. Get a grip folks.
2 weeks to flatter the curve, turned into 2 year to smash our liberty.
Well, after this, I could be given a pair of Levis, but I surely will never buy a pair.
It is obscene that any company would try to deny someone their freedom of speech.
Wrangler.
All my life I’ve worn Levis – never again!
So from this time on I will have to see my nearest Levi dealer for his or her decision concerning any medical problem i am experiencing. Levi jeans and medical store.
Several years ago, Levi’s forgot that the people who went west in search of gold, also had guns that they used to help protect their lives and their claims. Now they are wanting people to shut up about their concern about Covid mandates and their affects on others. First, the Second Amendment, now the First Amendment. Goose step with the other liberals Levi’s. I’ll never buy your products again. Oh wait, I haven’t for a long time.
This is just the kind of CEO Levi’s and other American companies need, a strong leader with integrity and Levi blew it by disregarding First Amendment rights no less. Their founders would NOT be impressed and neither are a whole bunch of their former customers.
Well, there are other jeans on the market, Levi’s got to learn, if you cater to the hateful “woke” crowd and shut down free speech, then your bottom line’s going to suffer. And may companies like Levi’s and Coke, who would rather leftist’s narrative and shut down free speech, see their bottom line crash towards bankruptcy. Hopefully, they will truly WAKE up and see that freedom of speech and thought is the only way to go and to throw off their left-leaning shackles before they go the way of the dodo.
I and 58 of my friends won’t buy Levie products any more. Keep those numbers climbing.
ANOTHER BOYCOTT ADDED TO MY COLLECTIONS!!!!
My congratulations to a Brave Patriot, the tide is turning!! God Bless You!!!
When are companies going to wise up and realize that the self appointed woke idiots mob does not represent the majority of Americans. And, they sure as hell don’t speak for this companies customers, like me, who are now an ex-customer.
Get your head out of your butt you stupid CEO’s, these woke mobsters are playing you for fools.