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 Inclusion Officer, said she hoped it would enable organizations "to take the necessary steps to turn positive messaging on LGBT+ inclusion into concrete actions."

Rainbow capitalism is still exploitive capitalism

  • eskimofry@lemmy.world
    1320·
    7 days ago

    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…

    • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
      402·
      7 days ago

      Any company that would trade the dignity of a group of people for their own profits doesn’t deserve my patronage.

    • vividspecter@lemm.ee
      11·
      7 days ago

      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).

    • daq@lemmy.sdf.org
      32·
      6 days ago

      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?

    • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      11·
      6 days ago

      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.