How the Death Industry Fooled Progressives with “Hairy Arms”
An apocryphal story from Disney illustrates how the most evil companies in the world short circuited the bad logic of the progressive movement
If you’ve ever worked in a production role in an office with too many managers, you might know what it feels like to be a Disney illustrator in the 1930s-1940s.
People with power over you but little to do will find something to critique in your work. Usually, it’s superficial — but time consuming. Disney illustrators figured out they could give their busybody managers something to focus on by drawing their work how they wanted, and then adding way too much hair on the arms of the characters.
Then, the managers would notice the hairy arms and not have real critiques that would require more work for the illustrators. All they had to do was erase the hairy arms and they could get their work done early, and go home and drink themselves to sleep.
Arms dealers — otherwise known as “Defense Contractors” faced a similar problem.
The real issue of course, is that they sell instruments of death. Somehow cigarette companies are bad because some smokers get cancer — but arms dealers are allowed to sell bombs, poison, missiles and explosives which kill on purpose, every day.
In any event, progressives are not fans of arms dealers. But short of, y’know, not manufacturing death for the world’s militaries, how could the Lockheed Martins of the world get progressives to stop bringing negative attention to these companies?
Simple! Hairy arms. Give the progressives something superficial to focus on that they can’t resist. Something that plays right into their identity politics, which has for some reason become THE primary issue they care about.
Gender and race equality comes first for progressives. Everything else comes second, if at all. Hundreds of thousands of dead people (usually dirt-poor people of color, I might add) pale in comparison to the hairy arms strategy successfully employed by four of the top five American arms dealers.
What did Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics and the defense arm of Boeing do?
They hired women as their CEOs.
Only 33 CEOs out of the Fortune 500 companies are women.
But somehow, four of those women work for the most evil companies on the planet. By neutralizing the gender critique, companies that profit from death are basically invisible to progressives. They’re protected from critique — now that they’re wearing a cloak of gender equality.
There’s no question about it: you don’t get a single industry suddenly all hiring female CEOs out of coincidence. It’s a calculated move designed to do exactly what it has done: quiet any negative criticism of the worst human rights offenders on the Fortune 500.
It worked. And it’s actually been working pretty well on the Federal level for a while, starting with Madeleine Albright as the Secretary of State, then with Condoleeza Rice under George Bush, and Hillary Clinton under Barack Obama.
We can distract from the fact that through our foreign policy, we’re committing mass murder, war crimes, torture, kidnapping and false imprisonment by putting a female face on our misdeeds.
Progressives would rather keep quiet than run the risk of actually critiquing a woman in a leadership position. This Achilles heel of the movement guarantees further unimpeded murder and an overwhelming complicity from left-leaning politicians to be cowed by the military industrial complex and career warmongers in the Pentagon.
Until progressives start caring about war as a primary issue, they will be easily fooled in this way.
