And they're not thinking about the backlash from the people that represent a large and well off financially segment of the population but they're pandering to a small one?
Daniel Greenfield makes some good points. I think many corporations calculate that the backlash won’t last forever. They are gambling on the short memory of the public. Personally I find the whole woke movement to be silly, hypocritical and stupid. I don’t think it is wise to give people a reason to love your company at the expense of others who will now hate you. Why not just fucking stay apolitical as possible and stop acting divisive? Is that too hard to do?
It’s gonna be amazing when companies shut the fuck up, quit pandering and focus on making a good product and having a good relationship with all their customers. That would he hella tolerant rather than this fucktarded faux tolerance bandwagon everyone wants to hop onto.
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Originally posted by Flash-LB: And they're not thinking about the backlash from the people that represent a large and well off financially segment of the population but they're pandering to a small one?
As was pointed out in both this article and an earlier thread, Brit or other non-US CEOs were also a factor. Just as S&W completely lost track of what the US market was all about under a Brit CEO, the clowns running Coca-Cola and McDonald's are completely out of touch with their respective US markets.
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the white population in the USA is aging - the most common age being 58 years old. That's a full 13 years past the prime years for commercial marketing. There's less white people on the entire planet combined than Chinese in China or Indians in India or Africans in Africa. As major corporations (including basically the entirety of big tech) have become more and more focused on these markets, they care less and less about making profits from 200 million aging whites in America but rather from the ~7+ billion other humans and growing populations on the planet. This shift has put the money in the mouths of racist fools like the professor who taught me CRT. It's why we now have a "Juneteenth" federal holiday celebrating something I hadn't even heard of as a Midwesterner until about three years ago.
In the global economy - whites are rapidly enroute to becoming an oppressed minority. Clown world is real but it's real because these corporations don't care about you anymore. Demographics is destiny.
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I was more interested in the other two companies mentioned - Gillette and nike. Nike has always been woke being headquartered in Oregon and filled with woke people.
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Originally posted by Rey HRH: I was more interested in the other two companies mentioned - Gillette and nike. Nike has always been woke being headquartered in Oregon and filled with woke people.
yep. Some of the first "woke" before it was popular.
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Originally posted by stickman428: ... I think many corporations calculate that the backlash won’t last forever. They are gambling on the short memory of the public. ...
They're right. Just look around here. Many cancelled their accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, et al. to protest the censoring of ideologies, just to reopen them a couple weeks later. Some of us are holding strong but it doesn't matter if there's no cohesion.
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I hadn’t had a Coke in years. Caught wind on their social justice HR they were subjecting their employees to on evils of being white, no dice, never Coke again. My local gun shop went as far as to pull the Coke Vending machines & replace them with Pepsi. As for Nike, they suck. I also buy generic razor blades as Gillette is way overpriced.
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The Nike and Coke piece is easy. It's all the other common household items that you use every day and have no idea of their origin - it could almost be a full time job keeping track.
I can't wait to see the impact on the NFL with their new 21-22 Vaccinated vs. Non-Vaccinated player and coach protocols. Should be a genuine shit-show.
I agree; imo it is a calculated risk: o To gain market share o Short-Term is worth the risk and they are operating at reduced capacity (Blamed on the RONA). Any short term losses could be offset by higher yields o LONG game seems irrelevant to many these days
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Sometimes I think it's due more to relatively young and relatively clueless marketing people who are just trying to appeal to whatever seems to be the fad of the moment. We've all met these kinds of 20-30-something naive kids who are just participating in herd behavior. I've seen colossally naive advertising that you look at and say, how could this every get approved?
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For many of these companies, virtue signaling is nothing more than marketing. No successful manufacturing entities design and sell high volume goods based on political leanings. They grab onto public sentiments as a means of aligning their brands in hopes of holding or increasing market shares. Personally, I make purchases based on several factors. Quality of products compared to the cost is a big one. But, all things being equal, or nearly equal, I prefer to spend my money with companies that don't treat me like an intellectual fraud. Virtue signaling for my business is a good way to lose my business. Particularly if my values don't align with your marketing.
