I love that consumers might be causing financial pain to big corporations, however:
Target, Walmart, and Amazon have always engaged in practices that harm individuals of every color and creed. The fact that DEI has become the impetus for these boycotts is evidence of the extent to which republicans still control the narrative. Liberal media sources follow right in step and whip their audiences into a fervor as well.
In reality, these companies directly exploit workers all the way down the supply line and up to the point of retail. We’re supposed to be mad that a small portion of those being exploited won’t be as diverse? That really sounds an awful lot like some neolib right-to-work shit.
Amazon in particular. We all should have absolutely buried Amazon years ago. Better late than never, but getting rid of DEI is not even in the top 100 horrible things Amazon has done.
I agree that the whole DEI issue arose from republicans controlling the narrative, but things have now moved beyond that.
The question now isn’t “these companies have always been evil so why focus on DEI?”, the question is “this is where we are–whose side are you on”? IOW one’s stance on DEI has become a proxy for who you stand with–the oligarchs or the people.
Businesses/oligarchs getting rid of their DEI policies are doing it to prove to trump, and us as well, that they have now fully joined with him to destroy democracy and form the Oligarchy (along with the christian nationalist faction but that’s another topic).
So it’s a symbolic action (among others) they are taking to demonstrate that they are now part of the trump regime and consider themselves to be our rulers. Therefore these boycotts of their businesses is our symbolic action that we do not accept them as our overlords and will oppose them.
I love that consumers might be causing financial pain to big corporations, however:
Target, Walmart, and Amazon have always engaged in practices that harm individuals of every color and creed. The fact that DEI has become the impetus for these boycotts is evidence of the extent to which republicans still control the narrative. Liberal media sources follow right in step and whip their audiences into a fervor as well.
In reality, these companies directly exploit workers all the way down the supply line and up to the point of retail. We’re supposed to be mad that a small portion of those being exploited won’t be as diverse? That really sounds an awful lot like some neolib right-to-work shit.
Amazon in particular. We all should have absolutely buried Amazon years ago. Better late than never, but getting rid of DEI is not even in the top 100 horrible things Amazon has done.
Anytime people decide to do something good there are always people who shit on it and say it’s not enough.
This would be the best time to boycott these companies with the tariffs going on they will be hit doubly hard.
I agree that the whole DEI issue arose from republicans controlling the narrative, but things have now moved beyond that.
The question now isn’t “these companies have always been evil so why focus on DEI?”, the question is “this is where we are–whose side are you on”? IOW one’s stance on DEI has become a proxy for who you stand with–the oligarchs or the people.
Businesses/oligarchs getting rid of their DEI policies are doing it to prove to trump, and us as well, that they have now fully joined with him to destroy democracy and form the Oligarchy (along with the christian nationalist faction but that’s another topic).
So it’s a symbolic action (among others) they are taking to demonstrate that they are now part of the trump regime and consider themselves to be our rulers. Therefore these boycotts of their businesses is our symbolic action that we do not accept them as our overlords and will oppose them.