These 25 rainbow-flag waving companies donated $18 million to anti-gay politicians since the last election
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Rainbow capitalism is still exploitive capitalism
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Rainbow capitalism is still exploitive capitalism
Not trying to side with businesses (Yuck) but was it about other issues where these politicians were pro business? I mean if you are trying to avoid antigay politicians... you might run the risk of missing out on the majority who have significant power to sway policy making..
Any company that would trade the dignity of a group of people for their own profits doesn’t deserve my patronage.
My point is its difficult to change the system without participating in it.. short of tearing it down
Seems pretty easy to avoid if you don't donate to the Republican party. And if you are willing to do that, then the business is fundamentally immoral (or amoral if you're being generous).
Interesting that there's a comment posted an hour before yours that says the same exact thing, but it's upvoted, but yours is downvoted. Would be interesting to see conservative VS liberal leanings on Lemmy by time of day.
By the way, I completely agree with you. These stats have nothing to do with lgbtq community and everything to do with business looking out for its interests.
For example all 3 cellphone providers available in US are on the list. Most likely the only reason donations vary is because they are either based in or focusing their business in different states. What are you going to do? Switch to using ham radio?
Not even just that. How many of these companies also donated to other politicians in that same race? Seems more of a move to have sway in politics than endorsement of any particular stance.
Money sways politics, something we don't have.