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The only people who thought companies were sincere in their support for LGBTQ rights or black rights or anything else were right wingers who thought it meant ev

by krapp 2y ago

The only people who thought companies were sincere in their support for LGBTQ rights or black rights or anything else were right wingers who thought it meant every corporation was run by "woke" Marxists. Everyone else knew it was a cynical marketing ploy at best, but there would still be little if any visibility for these groups at all if they didn't represent a market segment that could be exploited by capitalism. It was better than nothing.

dkkergoog 2y ago
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hydrogen7800 2y ago
I thought it was at least a good sign that /that/ was the "cynical marketing ploy" they felt was what people wanted to see, and which had the broadest appeal. Maybe it actually reflected, or at attempted to pander to, a broad cultural ideal. Now it's not.
- binary132 2y ago
  I think it’s more that they understand which side their bread is buttered on and are sucking up to the new admin. It isn’t like the political demographics of the United States magically changed on Inauguration Day.
  - hydrogen7800 2y ago
    The demographics haven't changed, but the power center has. Previously, business was pandering to the masses, now it's pandering to power.
wruza 2y ago
The left wing also has enough followers who thought that yet another corpname “adopting” the idea was a real step towards it. A little wishful to claim that crazy believers exist only at one side of the fence. It’s actually hard to make demographics that different at the scale of what we are talking here, so that it would exclude particular statistical segments.
- krapp 2y ago
  >The left wing also has enough followers who thought that yet another corpname “adopting” the idea was a real step towards it. A little wishful to claim that crazy believers exist only at one side of the fence. That isn't crazy, though, that's just naive. Believing that American corporations - especially tech companies - are controlled by an organized cabal of Marxist elites engaged in a conspiracy of white genocide and oppression of Conservatives through the use of "wokeness" and "DEI" is crazy.

by krapp 2y ago

dkkergoog 2y ago

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hydrogen7800 2y ago

I thought it was at least a good sign that /that/ was the "cynical marketing ploy" they felt was what people wanted to see, and which had the broadest appeal. Maybe it actually reflected, or at attempted to pander to, a broad cultural ideal. Now it's not.

binary132 2y ago
I think it’s more that they understand which side their bread is buttered on and are sucking up to the new admin. It isn’t like the political demographics of the United States magically changed on Inauguration Day.
- hydrogen7800 2y ago
  The demographics haven't changed, but the power center has. Previously, business was pandering to the masses, now it's pandering to power.

wruza 2y ago

The left wing also has enough followers who thought that yet another corpname “adopting” the idea was a real step towards it. A little wishful to claim that crazy believers exist only at one side of the fence. It’s actually hard to make demographics that different at the scale of what we are talking here, so that it would exclude particular statistical segments.

krapp 2y ago
>The left wing also has enough followers who thought that yet another corpname “adopting” the idea was a real step towards it. A little wishful to claim that crazy believers exist only at one side of the fence. That isn't crazy, though, that's just naive. Believing that American corporations - especially tech companies - are controlled by an organized cabal of Marxist elites engaged in a conspiracy of white genocide and oppression of Conservatives through the use of "wokeness" and "DEI" is crazy.