At the pride parade in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, accounting giant Deloitte promoted its support of the LGBTQ community: In June 2023, Deloitte produced a report on "LGBT+ Inclusion @ Work." In a letter accompanying the report, Emma Codd, the company's Global Chief Diversity, Equality and...
Why is it legal for them to donate money to policymakers? I don't understand how we just allow lobbying like this. It is a root of corruption! It overrides the will of the people through buying an politicians vote on an issue.
I remember them saying it was the death of democracy. I remember saying 2010 was the last real election. And then before we knew it, dark money super PAC hell. This court hasn't been legitimate in a long time.
The people in charge of whether they can be bribed are the same people receiving the bribes. The accountability of politicians under elections to prevent this behavior depends on a well informed and educated electorate which the wealth class has undermined for decades.
Even barring actual harm done against the queer community, there really should be a requirement that companies using pride flags for advertising contribute in some way to LGBTQ+ organizations. Otherwise all it will ever mean is: "we'll take your money."
The gays need to go Susan G. Komen on the rainbow flag. Trademark it and sue the hell out of anyone that doesn't "lease the rights to display the flag outside of a place of business".
I think you're going to have to use trademarks for this.
Start a non-profit group promoting queer community rights, create a trademarkable logo (maybe a rainbow flag could be used, or you might need more unique symbology) and then you can license that logo only to companies that do actually support the cause.
I'm going to my city's Pride parade tomorrow, Verizon will have a booth there as a "silver level" sponsor, I think I'll stop and give them a piece of my mind.
If you do, please know that it is possible the people at the booth are just low level employees with no say in the corporate policy and while these companies do deserve your ire, these individuals don't deserve you yelling or screaming. By all means let them know your opinion and tell them that version is not welcome at the parade, but don't attack or harass the employees.
Sounds like the Human Rights Campaign organization is crap if they just hand out good ratings regardless even if the reviewed corp donated to anti-lgbtq politicians.
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..
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.