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These events are good for one thing though: expanding your own personal blacklist of companies, organizations, people etc. Like Sony being openly racist and tri

by s9w 6y ago

These events are good for one thing though: expanding your own personal blacklist of companies, organizations, people etc. Like Sony being openly racist and tripling down on that.

0xy 6y ago
Do people actively do this? My politics are so "off-center" that I'd starve to death in the street if I only associated with people and companies whom I agreed with politically. How do you even keep track? If someone asked me the political stances of my closest colleagues or largest software partners I couldn't even tell you.
- s9w 6y ago
  There was a time when companies were just companies and politically neutral. That was truly a good time. If they play this misguided game I think it's only fair to punish them. It's just baffling that even the giants do this - Coca Cola Germany or Siemens as examples.
  - eesmith 6y ago
    Okay, I'll bite - when was this time? Because I can't think of any. Consider how many companies were not politically neutral on the issue of worker's rights and unionization. Or neutral on employing members of the Communist party. Or, quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_American_newspapers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_American_newspapers - "The Republican party was especially effective in building a network of newspapers in major cities to broadcast its statements and editorialize in its favor." That certainly sounds like the newspaper companies of the early 1800s weren't politically neutral.
    - s9w 6y ago
      Well newspaper companies are kind of special, no? They very often have vocal and official slants. But I think it's questionable if beverage or kitchen appliance companies should align themselves with a political party. That will by definition alienate some customers. And historically I have a hard time of seeing this prior to the last 10 or so years.
      - eesmith 6y ago
        That was simply the clearest, least controversial example I could think of. I seemed to have missed this controversy - what are you talking about with beverage companies aligning themselves with a political party? In any case, Coors seems like an appropriate historical example, what with the Coors family involvement in CO and conservative politics, and the long boycott against Coors - https://www.cpr.org/2014/10/03/the-coors-boycott-when-a-beer-can-signaled-your-politics/ https://www.cpr.org/2014/10/03/the-coors-boycott-when-a-beer...

by s9w 6y ago

These events are good for one thing though: expanding your own personal blacklist of companies, organizations, people etc. Like Sony being openly racist and tripling down on that.

0xy 6y ago

Do people actively do this? My politics are so "off-center" that I'd starve to death in the street if I only associated with people and companies whom I agreed with politically. How do you even keep track? If someone asked me the political stances of my closest colleagues or largest software partners I couldn't even tell you.

s9w 6y ago
There was a time when companies were just companies and politically neutral. That was truly a good time. If they play this misguided game I think it's only fair to punish them. It's just baffling that even the giants do this - Coca Cola Germany or Siemens as examples.
- eesmith 6y ago
  Okay, I'll bite - when was this time? Because I can't think of any. Consider how many companies were not politically neutral on the issue of worker's rights and unionization. Or neutral on employing members of the Communist party. Or, quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_American_newspapers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_American_newspapers - "The Republican party was especially effective in building a network of newspapers in major cities to broadcast its statements and editorialize in its favor." That certainly sounds like the newspaper companies of the early 1800s weren't politically neutral.
  - s9w 6y ago
    Well newspaper companies are kind of special, no? They very often have vocal and official slants. But I think it's questionable if beverage or kitchen appliance companies should align themselves with a political party. That will by definition alienate some customers. And historically I have a hard time of seeing this prior to the last 10 or so years.
    - eesmith 6y ago
      That was simply the clearest, least controversial example I could think of. I seemed to have missed this controversy - what are you talking about with beverage companies aligning themselves with a political party? In any case, Coors seems like an appropriate historical example, what with the Coors family involvement in CO and conservative politics, and the long boycott against Coors - https://www.cpr.org/2014/10/03/the-coors-boycott-when-a-beer-can-signaled-your-politics/ https://www.cpr.org/2014/10/03/the-coors-boycott-when-a-beer...