Van Jones admits woke activism at work got 'ridiculous' and 'we need to move on'

Former Obama advisor Van Jones has had it with employees bringing their politics to work saying it has gotten ridiculous and it is time to move on Multiple companies have turned against activism in the workplace a remarkable shift from the early s when DEI social responsibility and corporate-sponsored activism were ubiquitous For a few companies the new message to employees is Check your politics and your activism at the door when you come to work CNN host Abby Phillip explained her panel Saturday CEOs are making one thing clear The office is not the masses square and they re apparently not wrong about that NEWSROOMS FACING INMATES-RUNNING-THE-ASYLUM SITUATION WITH LIBERAL STAFFERS RULING THE ROOST WATCHDOGS SAYHOLLYWOOD'S 'PROGRESSIVE SNOWFLAKE ERA' IS OVER WITH SHOWS NOW 'HOT HORNY AND WHITE ' NYT GUEST ESSAY SAYSPhillip added that politics has seeped into nearly every corner of society in current years And it s not to say that you can t have free speech in your life but employers are just like Do your job and don t do anything else Jones who has had a lengthy history of progressive activism himself agreed While once sympathetic to the mindset of such activists he mentioned their time has passed This is not going to make me popular but I'm not mad about the change because it got ridiculous he reported I mean I m an employer and at a certain point your Slack channel just turns into Vietnam every other day because something happened that had nothing to do with the workplace He noted the headache of having to bring in counselors for such moments of emergency saying This is not camp guys we re trying to make money CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND HERITAGE So I enjoyed the moment for a while where we were having our reckonings about everything We done wrecked okay he announced sparking laughter We went from reckoning to wrecked We need to move on I take a similar approach CNN global affairs commentator Sabrina Singh replied I think what you do in your own free time whether you want to participate in political activism or whatever it is whatever cause you take up I think you have to do that on your own time Phillip recalled working on a book about activist Jesse Jackson noting how he once pressured companies from the outside to adopt more progressive policies Years later she reported populace perception shifted after a flood of corporate PR statements so much so that people may have gotten fooled that these corporations were doing anything other than what they needed to do to survive Republican strategist Lance Trover noted the historic moment of bipartisan agreement on the show You need to mark this moment in this show down he commented This may be where we all agree here at this table here tonight I mean yeah Welcome to the real world Gen-Z wokesters ' I don t know what to tell you