JD Vance speech: Amazon funded Black Lives Matter so riots would destroy rival retailers
Link: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2024/0815/jd-vance-speech-bezos-amazon-abortion
In 2021, JD Vance gave a speech to a conservative think tank on “woke capital” – and accused Amazon of funding Black Lives Matter in order to burn down the competition.
“Who benefits most when small businesses on Main Street are destroyed? Who wants to see their competitors unable to deliver goods and services to people, so that you get it delivered in your brown Amazon box? Jeff Bezos,” Mr. Vance said, referencing the riots that broke out in the summer of 2020, amid a wave of racial justice protests. “The people who are invested in destroying America via our corporate class are also getting rich from it. This is an important piece of the puzzle to understand.”
Mr. Vance has described big business as an enemy of conservative values, accusing many corporations of directly undermining America. It’s a view that has gained traction on the MAGA right in recent years, with conservatives attacking companies like Disney and Budweiser for “woke” messaging and efforts at diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) – evidence of the Republican Party’s transformation in the Trump era.
“If you peel back the onion, what you find is that the businesses that are most connected and most devoted to destroying our values are also benefiting financially from it,” he argued in the speech at a conference in suburban Washington, D.C., hosted by the Claremont Institute, a right-wing California think tank that has emerged as an ally of the MAGA movement.
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