Y’know what I want people to understand:
You can actually stop buying a brand without informing them of this decision on their social media page just because you disagree with their stance where Black Lives Matter is concerned.
Actually, y’know what? Continue to do that so we know who you are and what level of racism you hold. Your pearl clutching, excesssive outrage is extremely helpful.
But before you get too fired up on Facebook that King Arthur Flour decided to support the Southern Poverty Law Center, need to remember something:
You can thank Hobby Lobby for this “humanising” of corporations.
Hear me out: when they were considered to be a human entity enough to decide to whether or not they should let female employees have birth control covered by employer provided insurance (which the employees pay for) and chose to cling to “closely held religious beliefs” as their reason for denial, they opened the door for the humanism of corporations.
Now, I know this doesn’t make sense to some, so let me explain. Through legal means, to allow Hobby Lobby to deny birth control coverage on insurance that is deducted from employee pay checks through the use their personal “closely held religious beliefs” as a deciding factor, in essence, a business was made human.
Now, we know a a brick and mortar building can’t make a decision, but a person in charge of that company can.
So denying women a part of their needed health care is hunky dory, but supporting black and brown voices who desire support from the community around them, the humanity card gets revoked? Nope, that’s your oppressive nature coming to the fore, Linda. Have a row of seats.
By that same token and decision making process (not necessarily using “deeply held religious beliefs” but one that is similar), a business can choose to support whatever social cause they deem fit.
You can choose whether or not to support them. But...you’re letting people know the calibre of person you are.
