Image Credit: @robbystarbuck / X & Harley-Davidson / Instagram
The Center Square [By Jon Styf] –
A week after John Deere announced policy changes related to conservative activist Robby Starbuck publicizing their corporate policies related to diversity, equity and Inclusion and pride event sponsorship, Starbuck began publicizing the actions of another company: Harley-Davidson.
Starbuck wrote that CEO Jochen Zeitz has led the company to go “totally woke” while supporting the equality act to allow transgender individuals access to female locker rooms and forcing 1,800 employees to do virtual LGBTQ+ training.
Starbuck said Harley-Davidson sponsored an LGBTQ+ Entrepreneur Bootcamp and Zeitz signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion Pledge.
The Center Square was unsuccessful obtaining comment for this story from Harley-Davidson before publication.
In the past month, Starbuck has publicized policies at both Brentwood-based Tractor Supply and John Deere that led each company to publish statements on how it would change policies and sponsorships moving forward.
Starbuck was a 2022 Republican write-in candidate in Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District after being removed from the ballot by the Tennessee Republican Party.
John Deere said in its statement that it listens to feedback and will “prioritize internal policies that more closely align our business strategy to meet the needs of our customers” with its 80,000 worldwide employees.
The company said it would change sponsorships to support just the business and band and it would now focus on non-profit sponsorships centered on hunger, economic development, poverty alleviation, science, technology, engineering and mathematics, agricultural education initiatives and support for service members and veterans.
“This half measure shows that we’re a powerful force to be reckoned with though,” Starbuck wrote. “While I’m not completely pleased, I don’t want to downplay the fact that this is another massive win. All of you are helping me force corporate America back to sanity. I won’t rest until we eliminate leftism from corporate America.”
Tractor Supply made a similar statement in the past month related to its policies and sponsorships following Starbuck’s publicity of its corporate actions.
About the Author: Jon Styf, The Center Square Staff Reporter – Jon Styf is an award-winning editor and reporter who has worked in Illinois, Texas, Wisconsin, Florida and Michigan in local newsrooms over the past 20 years, working for Shaw Media, Hearst and several other companies. Follow Jon on Twitter @JonStyf.
4 Responses
Buy Indian motorcycles. Harleys are for dentists and bankers to play biker on the weekends.
Indian, home builds….
Stay out of the HD showrooms. Over priced Woke junk.
I was thinking of buying a motor cycle next spring after seeing a Harley I thought I would check them out . Now I will NEVER EVER buy anything from Harley Davidson . PERIOD !!!
These company Activist will run a company into the ground and so be it. Where is the voice of the Stock holders as the company heads towards Bankruptcy?????
Do they not know who buys their motorcycles? It sure isn’t the alphabet soup group. The phrase “go woke go broke” definitely applies here. Good luck H-D. These companies just don’t learn what happens when they only want to cater to maybe 3% of the population with a mental illness.
In God we trust not government or man.
Have a blessed day.