“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.”
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.
An author is writing to an audience, and surely you can’t be surprised that there are larger-than-desired groups of people who actually do think corporations can act morally?
You’re right, there are people who think corporations have morals, or that Donald Trump was sent by God to save us, or that the Earth is flat. That doesn’t create a standard that praising such articles is the Right Thing and criticizing them is the Wrong Thing.
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.