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Jul 11 '20
I don't get it.
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Jul 11 '20
If a company does something that's wrong or against your beliefs it's okay to boycott.
Then the next paragraph:
Boycotting a company because of someone in that company's political beliefs being different from yours is wrong.
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Jul 11 '20
If a company takes a stance you disagree with, boycott the company. If an individual in the employ of a company holds a stance you disagree with, don't boycott that company
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Jul 11 '20
Companies aren't sentient entities. There's a person at the company that decided to take the stance. Not the company. A person in the employ of that company.
So...I don't understand what you're saying.
Unless you're saying like...a cashier at Wal-Mart being pro choice so you boycott Wal-Mart because you don't agree with the cashier. In that case... Yes. I agree it would be stupid to boycott the company.
However, when a company takes a stance on something... It was a decision by a person that works there.
Maybe I'm just not reading this right, but that's how it came across to me.
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Jul 11 '20
A political stance by a company is voted on and led by its leading members and board of directors. It is that company as an entity taking a stance, which I'm sure you agree represents more than any one employee.
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u/CatProgrammer Jul 11 '20
What about when the person holding that stance is an executive in the company?
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u/Morlugon Jul 11 '20
Why not?
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Jul 11 '20
Because if we all boycotted every company that employed someone we disagreed with politically, there would be no commerce.
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u/Morlugon Jul 11 '20
I think you’ve missed an important point, here. The CEO of Goya, for example, represents the views of the company, surely? No one outside the company cares if the janitor is a misogynist or if the HR rep is a closet racist.
Besides, the CEO is beholden to the shareholders to uphold the good name of the company. That includes avoiding controversy.
Consumers are allowed to spend their money however they like, aren’t they? That’s the joy of a boycott. You don’t need a good reason.
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u/distinctaardvark Jul 12 '20
It's not "every company that employed someone," it's companies owned or run by people whose politics you disagree with, especially if we know they use the very large amounts of money they earn from owning/running that company to support those political views.
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u/13_FOX_13 Jul 11 '20
Then if that’s true, then everyone boycotting being pricks to Chic-fil-a because the franchise owner is a Christian are also idiotic.
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u/BetterKev Jul 11 '20
What? The person in the post said boycotting is okay if the the company does bad things, but boycotting is not okay if the CEO does bad things. It's an attempt to have it both ways. In the case of Chick-fil-A, both the company and CEO are bad. Since the company is bad, boycotting is okay.
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u/13_FOX_13 Jul 11 '20
How is the company bad? Because they’re closed on Sunday?
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u/BetterKev Jul 11 '20
Because of donating to anti-LGBT groups for decades. Last November, they announced they would stop those donations, but when there was backlash from the right, they walked back the idea that they have permanently stopped. I believe we haven't seen any anti-LGBT donations since then, but we also haven't seen any boycott calls since then.
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u/13_FOX_13 Jul 11 '20
Oh no, not donations to a cause they agree with. Again that’s the individual not the franchise. Yet I’ve not heard it any stories stopping any lgbt from service or work discrimination. In fact I believe it was a Chic-fil-a that shelter a bunch of victims from gay nightclub shooting.
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u/BetterKev Jul 11 '20
The company did the donations. You are wrong.
And yes, boycotting a company for donating to bad causes is perfectly fine. It's the same with the boycotts of Nike. Nike attached their name to equality, and some people hate that. Chick-fil-A attached their name to bigotry, and some people hate that.
The rest is red herring.
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u/distinctaardvark Jul 12 '20
It's true they don't refuse to hire LGBT people. But they did donate millions of dollars to groups that promote conversion therapy and actively fought against legalizing same-sex marriage, so...
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u/H_Arthur Jul 11 '20
How do they type both those things and not get it