Companies once vocal online about Pride Month, like Nike and Target, have refrained from posting about Pride Month on social media following backlash from conservative customers last year.
It’s hilarious that this thread accuses them of supporting pride to make money was bad but supporting bigotry for money is also bad.
It’s such a perfect microcosm of capitalism and popularity. How gatekeeping good deeds and representation through virtue signaling can turn people away and keep your movement from being funded by billion dollar organizations.
“Our research shows us that the pink dollar isn’t as profitable as the bigot dollar. We don’t actually care about anything other than profits.”
Exactly. Nobody should have been giving them money for rainbow shit without looking at who they actually donate to and what they actually support.
This is still alarming as a bellwether. The Repub domestic terrorism has shut them up.
It’s hilarious that this thread accuses them of supporting pride to make money was bad but supporting bigotry for money is also bad.
It’s such a perfect microcosm of capitalism and popularity. How gatekeeping good deeds and representation through virtue signaling can turn people away and keep your movement from being funded by billion dollar organizations.
Conservatives will paint the can any color that will drive profits, without donating anything to support the cause.
MAGA will scream and shout about boycotting it.
The right’s spectrum is the difference between covert and overt bigotry.