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ALK A MILE N MY LEVI’S

Canceled brand prez: No regrets fighting for kids cuz I was right

- Jennifer Sey is the author of “Levi’s Unbuttoned: The Woke Mob Took My Job But Gave Me My Voice.”

asked are: 1) do you regret what you did? And 2) have you gotten an apology?

No I do not regret it. I didn’t bend a knee during my two years of conflict at Levi’s and I won’t do it now. I was right and children need common-sense adults to stand up for them. I will not further lies (kids are resilient, there’s no such thing as learning loss, open schools parents are racist and don’t care if black children die) to remain in good standing with the tribe.

Dem ‘tribe’ has spoken

In my case, “the tribe” is Democratic Party acolytes who appear all too willing to tout harmful deceptions to retain the sheen of moral virtuousne­ss and the comfort of bewith ing the “in-crowd.”

And no, I have not received an apology from anyone. Not from the friends I lost, or the family members who rejected me or the employer that took my job away. They have all, in fact, doubled down.

Levi’s has offered this twisted defense of their actions:

“When Jen went beyond calling for school reopenings and began using her platform to criticize public health guidelines . . . it undermined the company’s health and safety policies.”

But it was public-health guidelines that ensured schools stayed closed. Levi’s statement is merely p.r. hogwash meant to distance the company from the fact that they took my job away because I advocated for open public schools for low-income children while their own children attended in-person private schools.

The general vibe directed at openschool­ers like me: you may have been right, but you were right for the wrong reasons. And now you’re just nursing old grievances. Schools are open. Shut up already. And let’s offer amnesty for those well-meaning leaders, like teachers union bosses and superinten­dents, who were just doing the best they could.

But I won’t. I offer no amnesty — and indeed no forgivenes­s — because it was clear from the outset that closed schools, beyond a few months, were a morally abhorrent policy choice, one that Europe and red states did not make.

Too many children’s lives have been ruined to just pretend it all never happened.

I did not, and will not ever, bend a knee.

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