• shiroininja@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    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?

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    I mean their logo is a fucking red target. Not exactly what I think of when I hear “gay friendly”.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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    Regardless of rainbow capitalism, I’m excited for this June just to see maga heads explode because of a rainbow.

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      There will most likely be death and bomb threats canceling some events, unfortunately. We’ve seen that before.

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        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.

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    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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.