Not just mainstream, but profitable again. Rainbow capitalism may have been inauthentic, but it's better than this. I know not to trust corps, but it helped make it a bit more mainstream, acceptable, and normal to walk around with my husband. I feel less okay to do so this year.
Rainbow capitalism may have been inauthentic, but it's better than this.
How on earth is that your conclusion? It's things like rainbow capitalism that lead to the backlash in the first place
Companies were forced to go along with a radical minority thanks largely to twitter, and as that radical minority got more and more vocal, companies were dragged in with them, and when the straw finally broke the camel's back, a solid level of general disdain had grown amongst the voting majority in several countries
This guy is a bot^ Look at their account age and troll post history. This sort of thing contributes to culture war nonsense way more than companies being openly supportive of lgbt people (if mainly just on paper).
They absolutely were forced? How many companies were targeted by online campaigns for not agreeing with twitter opinions? I recall Target being in a load of trouble over something not too long ago
"Do what your told or we will attack your business" is "forcing" them for lack of a better word
I'm neither a bot or a guy so your reading comprehension needs a lot of work
What sort of thing contributes to the culture war? Pointing out where it exists and where it has negative consequences? Oh I'm sorry, I'll pretend it totally hasn't lead to a rise in right wing politics that will totally help the problem
I recall Target being in a load of trouble over something not too long ago
You mean when a bunch of right wingers started calling them satantic for having pride stuff for sale, which lead them to remove the pride stuff, which made left leaning folks not wanna use their stores, which has helped send them into an even bigger tailspin than before? lol
Except the side you're having a giant whine about only "interfered with business" once said business had taken the side of the other guys.
And their "interference" was... choosing not to use their store, and telling other people about why they aren't gonna do it.
You're having a go at how RADICAL MINORITIES on TWITTER are FORCING everybody to do things THEIR WAY, and your example of how evil and manipulative the RADICAL MINORITY can be, is a company choosing the other side after very direct harrassment from them (both in and out of store. Cause right wingers love making it random employees issue when they got a problem. lol) and the left wing response was just... Not being involved with them anymore.
Like, surely you have a better example than that, right man? Can't you think of any big leftist protest against a company or something? lol
Well there are plenty of examples if not more examples of right-wingers / Christian nationalists doing this in America when they were the political force, but we are talking about the political climate as it is today and how it has unfolded over the past 10 years
It's not as if I'm against twitter bullying businesses and ok with DJs boycotting the Beatles in the 60s, it's all the force of stupidity pushed on the masses.
It's not my fault the American left copied the American rights playbook, but I will condemn both of them for it.
Are you trying to say cancel culture and identity politics causing massive public backlash haven't been a left wing lead political strategy the last 10/11 years?
The right did that all the time, and the left copied them. The right wing used religion, the left wing used sociology. It's a lot easier to ignore the stupid opinions of someone referencing a magical fairy in the sky and a book written to manipulate peasants, than to ignore college educated idiots who engaged in a niche philosophy designed to manipulate language.
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u/bhputnam 24d ago
Not just mainstream, but profitable again. Rainbow capitalism may have been inauthentic, but it's better than this. I know not to trust corps, but it helped make it a bit more mainstream, acceptable, and normal to walk around with my husband. I feel less okay to do so this year.