The bright side is, that they’ll never get to pander to us again hopefully, because how do you recover from doing such an about face on a community?
As gross as pandering to the community is/was I’d take that over the “back in the closet”
There’s a bright side to this? /s
Oh, it’s actually super easy when you have no shame.
I envy your faith in the general public’s long term memory.
I mean their logo is a fucking red target. Not exactly what I think of when I hear “gay friendly”.
Next pride month is going to be super awkard
Next pride month we gon’ be throwin’ the bricks
and the most important in a while
The thing about dei initiatives is that they don’t even work. All of this bullcrap and none of them were even close to hitting their targets anyway.
It’s like the Paris accords. We’re in the Paris accords, then we’re out of the Paris accords. Then we’re in them again, and then out of them again…and the whole time the world is burning record breaking amounts of fossil fuels.
Absolutionist garbage.
Granted, it’s a low percentage of initiatives that are reaching their goals, typical of many new initiatives, but it’s certainly not none. The majority of research and data on DEI initiatives shows that they are benefiting a majority of employees, despite only 5% of initiatives meeting their goals.
It’s like saying all weightloss routines are bullcrap because nobody ever meets their weightloss goals.
And who’s fault that we got out of the Paris accords?
Sometimes they’re used to just point at it in case of an anti-discrimination lawsuit. Sometimes it was a real policy that did real change.
They want our money, but if that’s not gonna happen, they want us dead.
Reason #2024783670234 to stop voting for capitalists.
Regardless of rainbow capitalism, I’m excited for this June just to see maga heads explode because of a rainbow.
Pretty sure there will be a lot of violence this year
There will most likely be death and bomb threats canceling some events, unfortunately. We’ve seen that before.
We’ve seen that before.
For those who don’t know:
At least 11 different LGBTQ Pride events across the United States have been disrupted by right-wing protesters or delayed due to threats of violence in the past two months, according to research by TIME and the progressive media watchdog group Media Matters. Those numbers reflect a “step up in aggressive activity targeting LGBTQ people,” compared to recent history, according to Peter Montgomery, a senior fellow with Right Wing Watch, a project by the progressive group People For the American Way.
Corporations at some time: Doing whatever they think will make them more money
Corporations at other time: Doing whatever they think will make them more money
Yeah no shit. It’s a corpo that just follow the money
When it comes to corporations, it’s just a case of whatever way the wind blows. With the far-right on the rise across the western world, they’re just protecting themselves from the consequences if and when a far-right government takes power.
They are parasites and will never be allies.
You means corporations actually care about nothing other than money? That can’t be!
It’s telling that the takeaway is “the hive mind amalgam at the core of this corporation wasn’t a real progressive ally” and not "it’s super important to avoid fascists in power because as they go, so do the economic powers.
We’ll learn the wrong lessons into oblivion. It’s likely we already did.
I honestly don’t like pride month for this reason, love idea behind it and support it but hate how companies don’t care about us they just care for money.
Why do people keep falling for corporations carrying about anything other than endless growth and profit.