Sean Hannity blames Silicon Valley Bank collapse on “an obsessive company-wide focus on race, gender, sexual orientation" Hannity: “Instead of making sound financial decisions, SVB championed every woke cause and social trend imaginable” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 03/14/23 9:56 PM EDT Video file Citation From the March 14, 2023, edition of Fox News' Hannity SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Instead of making sound financial decisions, SVB championed every woke cause and social trend imaginable. They committed $5 billion to "carbon neutral operations" to an obsessive company-wide focus on race, gender, sexual orientation, everything woke. The bank used all the right buzzwords and made all the right, "connections."