That being said, even the illusion that corporations support queer people increases the overall societal pressure to support it. It’s a sign that we won the culture war, definitively.
AB InBev was a great example of this.. They tried some token transgensder appreciation marketing and faced backlash, then reversed it and faced more backlash. Trying for both but got neither in the end.
Or in other words: "One in the hand is worth two in the Busch".
I posit the reverse: that some corporations choose to display tokenistic commodified support because overall social pressure exists to show support of some kind.
No, it absolutely isn't.
Almost half of the United States either hates LGTBQ+ people or has no problem supporting politicians who will promote anti-LGBTQ+ policies. I am genuinely boggled as to how you've come to the conclusion that you've won any kind of culture war, considering its absolutely still going on.
Corporations use rainbow paint to cover their hideous and ghoulish faces while they siphon every last cent out of the people who aren't shareholders. They are not your friends.
Does anyone, literally any sane person, actually believe that corporate America selling rainbows is tangible support? That’s putting the cart before the horse. Queer folk are largely socially accepted->low risk->support.
To be clear, I hope they continue marketing rainbows but I don’t pretend that it’s anything other than convenient money. Capitalism commodifies and co-opts, it doesn’t support. See: black mirror episode 2
I've certainly met people who claim Capitalism is the key for LGBT acceptance and less overt racism, and therefore supports those people.
I am far more with you on your point of view. Capitalism only supports making more money.
As one of a leftwing persuasion, it's our pleasure to see rent free accommodation out in the world.
Acceptance of any minority is priceless for said minority. By putting a pricetag on trans acceptance, businesses work to fundamentally devalue them and their experience.
I spent over an hour on Saturday playing rainbow popsicle shop with a 3 year old. Big popsicle is out of control.
To be more precise, democratic capitalism. Just capitalism is economic system, has nothing to do with social issues.
And I will argue yes, democratic capitalism has something to do, because it is in these countries LGPT has the most rights.
You're claiming that economic systems have no impact on social issues?
And you're sure that a position of global dominance due to sitting atop the global neo-colonial system has nothing to do with it?
Does India count as a Capitalist Democracy for this? What about Malaysia, or Indonesia, or Nigeria, or Kenya?
Edit: Poland, Romania, Italy?
You can find democracy index here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
OK, so we're calling 6 or 7 the cut off then? Or is the status of democracy limited to Scandinavia and New Zealand?
If I may ask the obvious question... Why then are you following a Community entitled "leftymemes" then?
One need not follow a community to see its posts. Just be on an instance that's linked to that instance and community.
Ah, fair enough then. I'm still not quite au-fait with who sees what and how.
I've had to actively follow each community to get to see it's posts.
