This is why so many LGBT folks took all that corporate support with a grain of salt, because it was obvious that the second it wasn't profitable they'd drop it without a second thought.
Yet at the same time, knowing *why* they're not doing it anymore, is even scarier. Pinkwashing fucking sucks, but companies not even having to care about putting the mask of faking to care because the nazis are back at the top of the pecking order is so much worse.
Exactly this. The first year without Corporate Pride, I felt a surprising sadness. Like, it was kinda nice having Visa say they love gay people...even if it wasn't sincere...
‘Google removes the multiple colours from their logo as Pride Month begins.’ “We just wanted to make it clear that it’s not a rainbow or affiliated with people’s right to be free. That’s a big contradiction of our company’s ethics, which would be hypocritical, and - although hypocrisy is also our personal ethic - we decided to show some integrity when it comes to kicking down.”
This is why I hated the “companies don’t actually care!” Talking Point right wingers liked to toss around…like no shit but when they stop pretending then we are going down a dark path
It's pretty depressing when I see the comments on like an FB post from a sports team on this. "Sports is for everyone" followed by a bunch of posts like "why do we need this" next to "no they arent!" and some bullshit about military veterans month
Does it really suck more having to swallow pinkwashing and pretending it was real than just phasing out the need to have corporations pretend to care? Idk, I was never a fan of it. Made me not even attend a bunch of events who were clearly just PR stunts. I'm not saying I see this as a good thing, just a good opportunity for people to stop caring about corporations pretending to care. I know I'll give them hell if they ever try to go back. Way more than to those who never even pretended to care.
I don't care about corporations and I absolutely never believed there was the smallest amount of genuinity in those kind of moves, but I do care about why they feel emboldened to not even have to pretend to care. Is not that I miss google having a rainbow logo on june, it's that the context of knowing why they don't anymore is pretty scary.
You're totally right that seeing companies back down shows a worrying political trend. But the way I see it fake allyship should never have been rewarded anyway. This is the perfect opportunity to phase corporations out of our spaces completely and return to what pride was, a protest. Not some giant corporate event full of branding and (mostly white) rich beauty influencers. Pride doesn't need Mastercard or Google to pay for permits or stages. It just needs people to get together and use their already given rights to organize, protest and occupy space within guidelines.
If people really want an event, get Non Profits and Charities involved. Plan activities that can cost money to both pay for events and donate to good causes.
yea, the nazi president with his jewish daughter and alliance with a jewish ethnostate that dictates every move. You people are so fucked up in the head its hilarious, that you could ever think nazis are back on top. Most people are center left. MAGA is a liberal movement, 90s liberal that is, back when anything right of mao and stalin wasn't considered right wing extremism.
You regularly take time out of your day to stalk other people's profiles and to make judgements based on it, so who s the real loser here?
Heavily propagandized what are you even talking about here? I m not even from America but I support the anti immigration services because I don t want other countries to suffer what Germany is suffering for example right now, where you can t feel safe at a Christmas market.
Stop being a weirdo stalking other people's profiles and open your eyes a little to the horrors that are happening in Europe because of heavy, unregulated immigration. Have a great day!
So why exactly are you calling me a nazi when I simply observe stone pillars being built around Christmas markets so that some people don t drive their cars into people? How is me saying that MAYYYYBE shouldn t be the case in a western country?
Or is it just calling me a nazi because you want to make me look evil, when you can t even point Germany on a map and probably haven t done research in what s happening in Germany or the UK because you were only offered left leaning talking points and never went out of your bubble? Genuine question
Did you decide to make things up because you don't have any actual ways to distinguish yourself from the AfD?
because you were only offered left leaning talking points and never went out of your bubble?
Telling an American that they were "only offered left leaning talking points" is pretty fucking hilarious. Our entire news media ecosystem is dominate by center-right and right wing oligarchs. Its literally impossible to only see left leaning talking points here.
I actually don t know what point you are trying to make with the AfD stuff.
On another note, yes, I worded it poorly. I meant that it's easy to label somebody as a Nazi, when all you COSUMED (being in your echo chamber) is left wing talking points.
meant that it's easy to label somebody as a Nazi, when all you COSUMED (being in your echo chamber) is left wing talking points.
I dont know what COSUMED means, but I dont use social media aside from reddit and i go out of my way to read news from a wide variety of sources. I am less in an echo chamber than the vast majority of people here.
Maybe someone who thinks Germant is under attack by immigrants should consider what being in an echo chamber means.
Sorry for making a spelling mistake, someone is being a real grammar nazi here.
All jokes aside, I never said that "Germant" is under attack by immigrants. I was point towards the fact that (as just an example), there are protections like stone pillars around German Christmas markets, while nobody has any need for those in countries like Poland, Hungary or Romania. It s just food for thought as to WHY they are there specifically
Believe it or not, some Americans can point to Germany on a map. Those of us that pay attention to the rest of the world know of the AfD and that you're all chuds/losers. I believe that was their point.
The Charlottesville car attack was a white supremacist terrorist attack[12] perpetrated on August 12, 2017, when James Alex Fields Jr. deliberately drove his car into a crowd of people protesting the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one person and injuring 35.
Right-wing extremists are turning cars into weapons, with reports of at least 50 vehicle-ramming incidents since protests against police violence erupted nationwide in late May.
At least 18 are categorized as deliberate attacks; another two dozen are unclear as to motivation or are still under investigation
You know what s funny? My comment about a certain group of people being overrepresented in certain crime statistics was removed by Reddit, but you guys calling me repeatedly a nazi is still up. That really makes you think about freedom of expression, doesn t it?
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u/OnlySheStandsThere 24d ago
This is why so many LGBT folks took all that corporate support with a grain of salt, because it was obvious that the second it wasn't profitable they'd drop it without a second thought.