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The nation is still reeling from the evil vehicular jihad which claimed the lives of 15 Americans on the streets of New Orleans early New Year’s Day. Their fellow Americans are rightfully outraged and grieving. Well, most of them are; some people have a different perspective on that heinous murder spree.
The 91st annual Sugar Bowl, which had been scheduled to go forward that same day at New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome, was postponed until the following day. The Georgia Bulldogs and Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish subsequently faced off without incident amid heightened security.
But just before the game began, Tom Wilson, chairman and CEO of insurance giant Allstate which was the Sugar Bowl sponsor, addressed the terror attack in a video statement. “Wednesday, tragedy struck the New Orleans community. Our prayers went to victims and their families,” Wilson told viewers:
We also need to be stronger together by overcoming an addiction to divisiveness and negativity. Join Allstate working in local communities all across America to amplify the positive, increase trust and accept people’s imperfections and differences. Together we win.
Let’s break this down. First of all, a nameless, amorphous “tragedy” did not strike the New Orleans community. A reportedly devout Muslim, flying the black flag of the Islamic State, is what struck the New Orleans community, as he slammed his vehicle into a crowd of revelers and killed 15 in addition to injuring dozens more. After which he exited his vehicle and opened fire on cops, who arrived at the scene and bravely neutralized him.
This was a terrorist attack of mass murder, not some vague “tragedy.” There was no reason for Tom Wilson to use the word tragedy because the event had already been confirmed to be an act of terrorism. The only reason to avoid using the word “terrorism” is if you are trying to shift the blame elsewhere, away from the actual perpetrators.
That brings us to the second point: to suggest that the terrorism in New Orleans somehow stemmed from a national “addiction to divisiveness and negativity” is one of the most offensive takes possible. We are beset by division and negativity in this country, but not because we have some psychological condition that Allstate, “working in local communities,” can help us overcome. We have been brought to the point of a hot civil war by an insanely radical Democrat Party pushing an anti-American agenda. That division and negativity have been weaponized by an activist, Left-wing mainstream media against their political opponents, whom they relentlessly demonize as deplorables, white supremacists, Nazis, fascists, etc.
Americans are not addicted to division and negativity; we have had it thrust upon us by a political movement – progressivism – whose driving aim is the lust for power and one-party hegemony. It is a movement that amplifies the negative because it is anti-American to the core and seeks to destroy the United States as we know it so that a collectivist, social justice utopia can be erected on its ashes (hence Barack Obama’s promise/threat to “fundamentally transform” the country). It is progressivism that is addicted to division and negativity. Progressivism is the reason we are the Disunited States.
Third, the claim that 15 people died brutally in New Orleans last week because Americans don’t “accept people’s imperfections and differences” is, again, a stupid and offensive interpretation of events. A jihadist slaughtered those innocents not because Americans need to be more tolerant of each other’s “imperfections and differences” but because Islam is a supremacist religion at war with all unbelievers until that day when there is no place in the world that has not submitted to Allah. The terrorist himself, Shamsud Din Jabbar, had expressed concern that his planned attack would send the right message: that it is about a “war between the believers and disbelievers.”
Progressive Allstate CEO Tom Wilson wants to steer you away from these facts to keep the focus on his intolerant fellow Americans. Indeed, Wilson’s repellant statement seems rooted in his company’s commitment to woke Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion principles. The Blaze Media notes that Allstate’s website has an entire page crowing about the many ways in which DEI “is a core value at Allstate”:
Wilson is a signatory of the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion pledge — the aim of which is to “rally the business community to advance diversity & inclusion within the workplace by working collectively across organizations and sectors.”
“In its 2023 annual report, Allstate boasted about employing fewer white men on its management team” and board of directors, The Blaze continues:
The company has also secured a perfect score in recent years with the radical LGBT activist group Human Rights Campaign, in part by providing multiple LGBT training elements, including an “intersectionality training”; providing sex-change guidelines and at least one inclusion policy for cross-dressing employees; having either an LGBT employee resource group or non-straight diversity council; and engaging in LGBT activism.
One would think that Wilson, as a proud supporter of the LGBT agenda, would be outspoken about the decidedly LGBT-unfriendly stance of Islamic fundamentalists like Shamsud Din Jabbar and his ilk, but progressivism forbids criticism of its partners in their unholy alliance.
Predictably and justifiably, the social media backlash against Wilson’s presentation was fast and furious.
Outkick founder Clay Travis called the statement “Tone deaf on an epic scale.” Army vet and bestselling author Sean Parnell slammed it, saying, “We don’t need to do a damn thing. These murders were committed by an evil terrorist thug.” Activist Robby Starbuck wrote, “This is the definition of suicidal empathy.”
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk stated,
A jihadist killed and maimed dozens of innocent Americans in a hate-fueled rampage, and the CEO of Allstate thinks Americans watching the Sugar Bowl need a lecture from him on overcoming “an addiction to divisiveness and negativity?” Absolutely not!!
Allstate wisely – albeit too little, too late – deleted Wilson’s statement from their social media accounts, but the truth is out there.
Allstate is my insurance company. I’m looking into switching. Perhaps all its clients should, to show our solidarity with the victims of jihad and to reject the sort of civilizational subversion exemplified by Tom Wilson and his self-righteously “diverse” team of managers and directors.
Follow Mark Tapson at Culture Warrior
We once thought of political correctness in business as a Human Resources crusade, but it has infested the highest corporate levels for years now. The Deep State works hand in hand with Deep Biz and Deep Academia.
What a dweeb this guy is. I made the mistake of signing up with Allstate last year. I’ll switch to a different company when it’s time to renew.
Like you, others may wait until a later date to switch so Allstate will not feel the full impact immediately, but they will feel it. Wilson is now 67 so he’ll be getting Social Security. The fool is finished at Allstate and it’s unlikely he’d find another company which seeks a disaster for a CEO.
And we thought we were in Good Hands with Allstate looks like its no longer
I still remember when, decades ago, a major hurricane (I forget which one, or the year; but it was one of those “100-year storms”) inflicted catastrophic damage.
Incredibly, the CEO of a major insurance company–pretty sure it was Aetna–made a public statement bemoaning the huge cost to Aetna in paying their policyholders’ (their “Insured,” or more commonly in the insurance industry, their “Risks”) fully justified, and provable, claims.
Instead, he should have said, “Well, yes, Aetna will have to pay out billions of dollars to our policyholders; but Aetna is financially strong, and this is why millions of people trust Aetna for their home insurance, and you can, too.
This Allstate CEO is as big an idiot as that Aetna CEO was for, uh, sending The Wrong Message.
I don’t insure with Allstate; but if I did, I’d find another company right away, as I urge all of their other Insured (or “Risks”) will do.
Allstate and Progressive are the two worst insurance companies in the United States. Progressive has a painting by Andy Warhol of Mao Tse Tung mounted in its main office lobby
I knew Progressive was a chickenshit leftist cesspool (They specifically named themselves “Progressive” in tribute to the leftist Democrats known as the Progressive Caucus.)
I did NOT know about the paintings. Thanks for the heads-up.
There was also a report of Din Jabbar hoping to kill his ex-wife and daughters for apostasy. That is someone who wanted to inflict death on unbelievers of Islam.
Some things are just plain wrong all by themselves.
Nail hit on head Mr. Tapson! If I did have Allstate I would call their HQ immediately and cancel with some choice words for the CEO. Wilson’s statement is an outright vicious lie and an attack on American’s and all of civilized society. He is making a fortune off the customers he’s denigrating. His idea (like all leftists) of diversity & inclusion is endless wars, Islamic Jihad and mutilating children. America and the world are waking up to the rhetoric of hate filled relics like Tom Wilson.
I just finished a typed letter to Allstate, telling them I wanted to thank their CEO for alerting me to never do business with the company.
Thanks for the idea. I’ll do the same.
Maybe in Allstate CEO Tom Wilson’s left, liberal way of thinking, he
might’ve thought – by emphasizing Americans alleged addiction to
divisiveness and negativity – that he could curtail any “Islamophobia”
and subsequent cries for retribution. That is, by criticizing Americans
for their supposed hateful and separatist attitudes – they might then
hesitate to vent justifiable anger at the murderous jihad.
Typical arrogant liberal elite. As if anyone would give a crap about
what he thought.
Also, Libs will never point out any reference to Islam or Muslims in
anything no matter how vile. They always tout barbaric Islam as a
religion of peace to dissuade Americans from uniting against it. Which
explains why Wilson did not actually use the word Islamophobia when
criticizing Americans.
Sanctimonious leftist are insufferable. Their WOKE/DEI claptrap is nothing but cowardice.
This putz thought he was virtue signaling but he clearly stepped in it. So glad I am not insured with them.
The Babylon parody of this idiot is almost the same as the actual speech. Is parody dead when real quotes from morons are so crazy that they cannot be parodies?
Another self appointed and DEI anointed fool, standing in moral judgment because he thinks his DNA is evolved beyond that of the deplorable masses,
This blatant sleight of hand by this CEO, who obviously refused to call out the truth of Islamic terrorism, is yet another reason why Americans voted for Trump.
From the Allstate penthouse suite, he has become oxygen deprived and as such his thinking continues to reside in the leftist double speak that most Americans hold in complete disdain. He lacks wisdom.
The real tragedy is open borders, multicultural, delusional policies that have long facilitated the influx of Islamic jihadis, and American antisemites like Muslim Louis Farrakhan and his Islamic bigotry, who salivates at the possibility of the US coming under Sharia law and being under ALL Islamic dictates. What Farrakhan refuses to admit is that Islam essentially detests Blacks, as their history of Black enslavement and castration of males made them the ancient purveyors of this horrific treatment. Does he, like this Allstate mouthpiece, look the other way at Blacks being bought as slaves today in Muslim Mauritania? Apparently so.
Attacks of terrorism against America and her citizens should be spoken with a megaphone of truth not this CEO’s obsequious deference to leftist, hate America ideology!
For years, we were told that diversity is our strength. No, it is not. Diversity divides. You can’t keep celebrating our differences and expect the nation to be divided.
Third, the claim that 15 people died brutally in New Orleans last week because Americans don’t “accept people’s imperfections and differences” is, again, a stupid and offensive interpretation of events. A jihadist slaughtered those innocents not because Americans need to be more tolerant of each other’s “imperfections and differences” but because Islam is a supremacist religion at war with all unbelievers until that day when there is no place in the world that has not submitted to Allah.
Sometimes there is nothing left for us to post.
wilson: suck dick, dindu
Allstate stock should be in free fall by now. Allstate should have already replaced this guy and be distancing themselves as far as possible from him.
Tom. By the end of the week our multi year partnership with Allstate will end.
Please don’t call. Neither of us will answer.
High Tide, Stew Virginia
” Allstate CEO Explains If Americans Were Nicer, Islamists Wouldn’t Have To Murder Them”
-Babylon Bee
I am in the middle of previewing Allstate’s policy offering for my home and auto. I am so glad your article has come across my email. I am dumping Allstate’s offering in the trash and will be looking elsewhere. I can’t believe someone who has reached the high position in the Insurance world has a world view so wrong and so contrary to most of our values. Blame the correct perpetrator for the evil act that was done damn it!! Quit vacillating the truth. We were attacked. We need justice now.