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I agree with you; A decision that has nothing to do with them is likely to suffer massive backlash. Because if the world doesn't fit their narrative, they will

I agree with you; A decision that has nothing to do with them is likely to suffer massive backlash. Because if the world doesn't fit their narrative, they will make it so. I look forward to it. Not saying it's the best strategic move by Amazon, but day by day i grow more tired of the fallout of christians. Yea, maybe it's just fringe christians.. but if there are reasonable people in their ranks, they're happily silent. They happily co-exist with extremists, and the affect that's having on society is frustrating to me. If they just lived their life and didn't try to bully everyone else into alignment with their beliefs i'd be more sympathetic. But the less they get special treatment these days the more "Anti christian" they claim everyone is. As if the secular population is out there attacking them. Equality seems persecution to them.

kstrauser 5y ago
A lot of it seems to come down to a business decision: how large of a market demographic are we willing to piss off, and how badly? On one hand, if you name a new product after a Roman god, there are likely to be at least some people who are offended that you're using their deities name, but that's probably going to be a teensy amount of people. On another, if you name your new product "Pope Is A Dope", a pretty large chunk of your customer base is likely to take their business elsewhere. So just purely from a business point of view, Amazon needs to evaluate how much they're willing to annoy evangelicals. It's very possible they've run the numbers and decided they're OK with this for all the reasons you state and more. I think it's also at least a little possible that it simply hadn't occurred to them that some people might not like the idea for religious reasons. If they launched their new "Zeus the Deuce" product and suddenly a few people people rose up and started writing op-eds and organizing boycotts over it, I'd expect someone to be pretty surprised. I think this might be along those lines.

kstrauser 5y ago

A lot of it seems to come down to a business decision: how large of a market demographic are we willing to piss off, and how badly? On one hand, if you name a new product after a Roman god, there are likely to be at least some people who are offended that you're using their deities name, but that's probably going to be a teensy amount of people. On another, if you name your new product "Pope Is A Dope", a pretty large chunk of your customer base is likely to take their business elsewhere. So just purely from a business point of view, Amazon needs to evaluate how much they're willing to annoy evangelicals. It's very possible they've run the numbers and decided they're OK with this for all the reasons you state and more. I think it's also at least a little possible that it simply hadn't occurred to them that some people might not like the idea for religious reasons. If they launched their new "Zeus the Deuce" product and suddenly a few people people rose up and started writing op-eds and organizing boycotts over it, I'd expect someone to be pretty surprised. I think this might be along those lines.