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Levi’s brand president Jennifer Sey is ousted over comments against Wuhan Virus restrictions


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2022 Feb 15, 1:36pm   298 views  7 comments

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https://reclaimthenet.org/levis-jennifer-sey-ousted-over-comments-against-covid-restrictions/?source=patrick.net


Sey says she was offered a $1million payout to stay quiet.

On Monday, former American gymnast Jennifer Sey revealed that Levi’s had fired her for speaking out online against Covid restrictions in schools. She revealed her termination in a letter on the Common Sense channel on Substack run by Bari Weiss.

Sey represented the USA as a gymnast in the 1986 Goodwill Games in Russia. Soon after, she got a job at Levi’s, where she has worked for more than two decades. She was fired earlier this year because of being vocal against Covid restrictions in schools.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Sey has let her opinion on school closures and mask mandates known. Last March, she moved from California to Denver, Colorado, so that her youngest kid could attend in-person school.

“Anonymous trolls on Twitter, some with nearly half a million followers, said people should boycott Levi’s until I’d been fired,” Sey wrote. “So did some of my old gymnastics fans. They called the company ethics hotline and sent emails.”

All along, she was being pressured by the company to stop speaking about school closures and mask mandates. In November, she stopped speaking out because the company’s CEO Charles Bergh told her she was on track to become the next CEO.

However, Bergh later told her that it was “untenable” for her to remain in the company. She was offered $1 million so she would stay silent about why she was fired. But she declined the offer.

“The money would be very nice. But I just can’t do it. Sorry, Levi’s.

“I never set out to be a contrarian. I don’t like to fight. I love Levi’s and its place in the American heritage as a purveyor of sturdy pants for hardworking, daring people who moved West and dreamed of gold buried in the dirt.

“But the corporation doesn’t believe in that now.

“It’s trapped trying to please the mob—and silencing any dissent within the organization. In this it is like so many other American companies: held hostage by intolerant ideologues who do not believe in genuine inclusion or diversity.

“I’ll always wear my old 501s. But today I’m trading in my job at Levi’s. In return, I get to keep my voice.”
For her opinion on Covid restrictions, she says she was labeled “racist.”

“After all these years, the company I love has lost sight of the values that made people everywhere want to wear Levi’s.

“Early on in the pandemic, I publicly questioned whether schools had to be shut down.

“This didn’t seem at all controversial to me. I felt—and still do—that the draconian policies would cause the most harm to those least at risk, and the burden would fall heaviest on disadvantaged kids in public schools, who need the safety and routine of school the most.

“In the summer of 2020, I finally got the call.

“‘You know when you speak, you speak on behalf of the company,’ our head of corporate communications told me, urging me to pipe down.

“I responded: ‘My title is not in my Twitter bio’.

“I’m speaking as a public school mom of four kids.

“But the calls kept coming. From legal. From HR. From a board member.

“And finally, from my boss, the CEO of the company,” she wrote in the letter.

She says that the final straw was an appearance she made on Fox News, where she discussed Covid restrictions in schools with Laura Ingram.

In a statement, Levi’s said Sey resigned.

“Today, Levi Strauss & Co. announced management changes affecting our executive leadership team. Seth Ellison, EVP & Chief Commercial Officer will assume responsibility as the Levi’s brand president on an interim basis in addition to his commercial duties, replacing Jen Sey, who resigned from the company,” the company said.

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1   clambo   2022 Feb 15, 2:02pm  

I'm going to go straight Carhartt from now on.
2   Onvacation   2022 Feb 15, 2:23pm  

clambo says
I'm going to go straight Carhartt from now on.

Carhartt has a vax mandate.
3   PerfectlyFlawed   2022 Feb 15, 3:22pm  

Good for this lady - she values having integrity & a free voice more than anything else. It probably doesn't matter what alternatives we choose - all corporations are of this 'Beastly' control system and probably have some high-level agreements in place to not contradict the top-down narrative. Its truly disgusting and is clearly about demoralization & attempts to control the population at large..
4   Patrick   2022 Feb 15, 9:38pm  

Here's the original article:

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/yesterday-i-was-levis-brand-president?source=patrick.net


Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free.
I turned down $1 million severance in exchange for my voice.

Jennifer Sey
Feb 14
6   Patrick   2022 May 23, 9:04am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/canceled-covid-opinions-jennifer-sey/

Still, there’s something different about the people canceled for their Covid views. In several cases, not only were these people right, their opinions eventually became the absolute standard. People were fired or pushed out of their jobs for simply being ahead of the curve. ...

Jennifer Sey was chief marketing officer at Levi Strauss & Co., the global billion-dollar clothing company. She was destined for big things at Levi’s. If only she hadn’t said too soon what we all now know to be true.

Sey wanted schools to open and for children to return their normal lives. There is now absolutely nothing controversial about this opinion. Even when she was tweeting it in 2020 and 2021, she was entirely correct.

Like other companies attempting to weather the woke mob, Levi’s had publicly declared support for progressive causes, signed Supreme Court amicus briefs in support of gay marriage and trans rights and taken positions on gun control.

But then Sey called for an end to the lockdowns that we now know were pointless, pushed for open schools, which everyone claims to have supported all along, and generally prioritized children. For Levi’s, this was a problem. ...

Tom Goodwin “parted ways” with Publicis Groupe after he tweeted, in August 2020, that the intense focus on Covid deaths over other deaths was misplaced. We now know and accept that people died from alcoholism, suicide, drug overdoses, cancers for which they missed screenings and just plain loneliness, specifically due to lockdown. Goodwin’s comments are now generally accepted. No, we can’t fight Covid at the expense of literally everything else. Data shows that the US experienced hundreds of thousands of “excess” deaths aside from Covid, mostly affecting the poor.

Daniela Jampel is a mother of three and was until recently assistant corporation counsel for New York City. Jampel advocates for the removal of masks on two- to four-year-olds, a policy that no other western country employed through the pandemic but one that remains in place in NYC at the time of writing. Masking toddlers is as despicable as it is utterly redundant. No toddler can wear a mask correctly; anyone with even a passing knowledge of kids understands this. Jampel confronted New York City mayor Eric Adams on toddler-masking and was fired the next day.


Josh Stylman is a co-founder of the excellent Threes Brewing in Brooklyn. He described the vaccine mandates as a “crime against humanity” and unartfully compared them to showing your papers in Nazi Germany. Of course, if Nazi comparisons were enough to force someone out of a job, the presidencies of Donald Trump and George W. Bush would have prompted even greater mass unemployment. Stylman had described himself as pro-vaccine but anti-mandate, yet that didn’t save him, and he resigned his post. Now most people understand that the vaccine passports did absolutely nothing to help contain the spread of Covid-19, which is why requirements have been lifted in cities around the world.

The inability to engage with contrarian opinions, especially those proved correct, is a stain on our response to the pandemic. Cancel culture is real and it’s no longer limited to a small range of boutique issues. When the mob employs it on matters of public health, the stakes could not be higher.
7   Patrick   2022 Oct 27, 10:21am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/fauci-lies-cant-conceal-the-truth-covid-schools/


I was called a racist repeatedly by employees of my company, Levi’s, for my open schools advocacy in San Francisco. Then I was pushed out of the company. Because, let’s face it, no one wants a racist as president of their brand.

Leading the way — and tacitly lending credence to the vicious charges against parents — was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Yet now, two and half years into the pandemic, Fauci insists we should have known all along he understood there would be harmful impacts from extended school closures. So why didn’t he stress this oh-so-obvious fact? Why didn’t he clearly state that, “yes, sad to say, there will be learning loss, as well as mental health impacts”? ...

At every turn, Fauci stoked rather than allayed fears.

In May 2020, nearly two months after Denmark had decided schools needed to reopen because the impacts on children were too harmful, Fauci testified before Congress. In response to President Trump agitating for schools and businesses to open, Fauci said that schools should open cautiously and in some places should remain closed in the fall. ...

We can only hope that as the devastating truths about pandemic policy and its unfolding consequences become clear, these doctors, epidemiologists, and open schools parents will be redeemed for their courage and foresight. And that Dr. Fauci’s abysmal performance and disastrous influence will be appropriately judged.


Pfauci created the virus in Wuhan, then used it to make billions for his friends at Pfizer by pushing the ineffective and dangerous vaxx on the world while stunting the growth of many millions of children.

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