“The brazen hypocrisy staggers the mind. Disney, which commands a market cap larger than the GDP of many nations, can’t find the courage to even wait for court challenges? Meta, which regularly boasts its power to connect billions, suddenly can’t muster the strength to defend its own policies and users? These aren’t businesses making tough choices – they’re paper empires run by moral cowards—simpering, whimpering, and weak.”
These aren’t businesses making tough choices – they’re paper empires run by moral cowards—simpering, whimpering, and weak.”
How desperate to hide from reality can someone be??
These are the most powerful people on the planet making perfectly reasonable decisions for their own benefit, because that’s literally the only thing they’ve ever cared about.
The idea that corporations and the people who run them should be “brave” and stand up against the very system that enables them to exist, or somehow give a single fuck about society at large, otherwise they’re “cowards” (and not simply self serving oppressors) is so far beyond absurd, it’s actually enraging at this point.
demonstrating that their much-touted values have all the staying power of a Snapchat message.
Does this author need help spelling “DUH?” Given that she managed to find her way to a keyboard, it seems impossible that she doesn’t know corporate flags wave in whatever direction the current wind happens to be blowing. It makes perfect sense that the same companies that wrapped themselves in rainbows and Black Lives Matter banners are now kowtowing to nazis - unless she’s dumb enough to think corporate gestures are ever sincere or genuine.
Why attack one of the few journalist (?) author (?) actually calling the bullshit of corporations when the rest of them are just toeing the line and licking the boot?
This is literally why nobody cares about the common good, it’s incredibly thankless
Because this thread is about this article by this author, and because people have been calling bullshit forever. Which makes them feel like they’ve actually done something when they haven’t. “B-but it’s raising awareness!” No it’s not, it’s just blowing off personal steam.
You know what’s incredibly thankless? Caring enough about the common good to personally send out thousands of postcards urging Dems to vote, and seeing 10 million of them who voted for Biden in 2020 decide not to show the fuck up to vote for Harris in 2024. Because Genocide! Funny how nobody’s talking about the ceasefire that took effect a couple days before Fuckface took office, which the Biden admin had been helping to negotiate during the election while pouty little shits were folding their arms and standing on their righteous moral pedestals and calling them nazis. Don’t even try to lecture me about thankless.
I always find it very telling when people get mad at those who decided that they couldn’t stomach voting for genocide, instead of getting mad at the party that ran on a pro-genocide platform.
Letting perfection get in the way of good is much more common among liberals than conservatives, who are more like “whatever, my team is my team”. This gives conservatives a political advantage, and so does the more recent popularity of angry hardline moral absolutism among liberals. If every sin or misdeed is permanently unforgivable, you run out of saints very fast.
I feel like “funding a genocide” is a far cry from “letting perfection get in the way of good”. Not backing a genocide seems like a pretty low bar to expect from a political party.
Additionally, I think liberals have long had a long history of “whatever, my team is my team”. Did you see them during the last few campaigns? All I heard the entire time was “Vote Blue, No Matter Who”, despite their canditates and policy being absolutely terrible.
Refusing to help stop a dictator because it would mean stepping down off your morality pedestal seems like a much lower bar to me.
And as I’ve pointed out and NOBODY ever addresses, while the Biden admin was being called genocidal nazis they were helping to negotiate the ceasefire that went into effect a few days before Li’l Shitler took office thanks to the people who refused to vote for Harris. But go ahead and pat yourself on the back and give yourself a gold star. The world thanks you for being a better person.
Nobody addresses is because it was obviously bullshit. If he wanted to get a ceasefire in place, he had plenty of time to do it. Instead he chose to dick around and keep funding the genocide.
You can be mad all you want about people chosing to stand by their morals, but that seems like mis-directed anger. Why not get mad at the Pro-Genocide party instead? They could have easily won this election, but chose Genocide and Billionaires instead.
Businesses will never willingly support the minority at the expense of the majority. They will always cater to the largest immediate profit margin
I think I get where you’re going, but more accurately…
MAGA are a minority. The thing business support is profit. In this case, via sucking up to those in power.
And being considerate of racial minorities and gender minorities doesn’t cost the majority any expense. Regardless of the lies GOP and Fox “News” want us to believe.
An out of control executive branch can destroy their company and they know it. What do they have to gain? Nothing. What do they have to lose? Everything. Of course they will fold.
Sorry, but the idea that powerful corporations ever had values is naive to the point of stupidity. The only value that ever mattered to these corporations is the one sitting in their bank account and the fact they used to pride-wash once a year implying they had values is bizarre. They’ve not folded, they’re just following the profit.
It’s literally illegal for these publicly traded companies to do anything that would be detrimental to their shareholders. The guy in oval office is telling them there will be consequences for not following his EOs (ie: lowering shareholder value). There’s not any decision to be made here (not that they aren’t laughing to the bank either way)
It’s a modern day worldwide religion … the religion of money. It only exists if we faithfully attend church every week or every day and pray to the gods of finance and hold everlasting faith to the almighty dollar. Our churchs are the banks, ATMs, restaurants, stores, malls and online shopping sites we see every day. Our membership cards carry our prayers in our credit and debit cards. Once the brethen lose faith in any part of it, the whole organization starts to fall apart.
We’ve always been like this. 3,000 years ago it was a golden calf. Today it’s the little numbers counting which god is winning or losing on a stock market website.
Defining an age while it’s happening is the same mistake as trying to define a generation outside of an historic context. You either use arbitrary boundaries to define the category, or you wait for a historical context to define boundaries and categories under. We’re in the ages of glass, plastic, misinformation, cowardice, social networks, corporations, etc. You have no idea what the defining characteristics will be to history until you are looking back from the next category or epoch.
Unpopular opinion, but a company removing their DEI policies as to not pick a legal battle with the US government is not the problem, assuming their actual hiring practices are not really changing. If Google from now on only hired straight, white people, it would be detrimental to them for missing out on a huge pool of talent and they know this. If all they are doing is removing diversity requirements from writing and canceling black history month pizza parties (which face it no one really cares about celebrating culture at the workplace), then essentially nothing has changed and they can roll all this back in 4 years.
… on the other hand, Apple advertising on X is coward shit. 💩
assuming their actual hiring practices are not really changing
Why on earth would anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention assume that?
If Google from now on only hired straight, white people, it would be detrimental to them for missing out on a huge pool of talent and they know this
Even with DEI they still hire more straight white men than any other group, and they do so because they don’t give a shit about the talent they might be missing out on because they don’t consider marginalised people to be as talented in the first place, that’s literally how white supremacy along with other systems of oppression function, and they aren’t something that is just happening now, they are literally what America and capitalism are founded on.
You think Google, Meta, and all those silicon valley companies in CALIFORNIA are going to stop hiring Indian and Asian engineers because they don’t have an official DEI policy anymore? Really? Do you even know who Google’s CEO is?
The majority of IT applicants are straight white men, so even completely unbiased hiring practices would result in mostly straight white men being hired for IT positions. You can argue about why that’s the case (societal norms, socioeconomic factors, etc), but it has nothing to do with corporations that hire based on merit.
This inaccurately presupposes that the execs running Disney and Meta don’t simply genuinely want the changes they’re making and are happy that Trump gave them an excuse.
