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Good tool for flooding the inboxes of corporate folks who have flown the pride flag for their companies during June but contributed to anti-LGBTQ+ candidates. Do a few! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ https://paybackpride.org/#take-action
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Good tool for flooding the inboxes of corporate folks who have flown the pride flag for their companies during June but contributed to anti-LGBTQ+ candidates. Do a few! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ https://paybackpride.org/#take-action
Also happy pride month I can’t wait to see all the corporations rainbow-washing their products for the next 4 weeks, especially when they look silly and don’t actually provide aid or funding for LGBTQIA+ charities 🙃
image from @marzapanda
Rainbow-washed corporations are fair-weather allies. But that’s not the real lesson of Target, Starbucks, and others caving to hate this yea
From the article:
As American public opinion shifted considerably in favor of gay people in the early to mid-2010s, companies shifted along with it. But corporate America’s eventual embrace of Pride aesthetics should be read as a reflection of the country’s progress on LGBTQ+ issues, not as a strategic instrument that helped bring that progress about. That is why, for the past couple of years, as anti-LGBTQ+ movements have amassed an increasing share of cultural and political power, companies have started to dial back their enthusiasm for Pride month.
Here's a short story about rainbow-washing. I scroll facebook homepage (yeah, I know, who the fuck has a Facebook profile in 2022) and I see a post about pride. This post has been published by a very important company (that has a rainbow logo for pride month). I am aware I shouldn't open the comment section, because I'm queer and boomers can be very mean online. I think that I can have faith in humanity and I read the comments. Obviously the comments are really offensive and hurtful. I decide to write to the company and it answers "Yeah, of course, we can check the comment section". As I expected they didn't remove any comments.
That's why companies that rainbow-wash can suck a dick.
Also I'm gonna cancel my Facebook profile, because what the fuck.
