• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Corporations never accepted women, blacks, latinos, LGBTQ+, and other minorities because they thought they were human beings with an inalienable right to representation and are a part of the human communtiy.

    No, no, no, the only thing corporations ever cared about was that they were leaving money on the table. Selling stuff to those groups was profitable, as was hiring people from those groups. A bigger pool of potential customers and laborers.

    Now that profits have been mildly impacted, they’re going to make it very clear that if they think you’re unprofitable that you don’t deserve representation or rights.

    Just to be clear, it’s always been this way, the mask is just off and they’re being very honest about it being about profits, not people. The queer kids were always right to call it “Pinkwashing” and “Rainbow Capitalism.” This is how the game has always been played, they never cared about us as humans.

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      23 hours ago

      To be fair, corporations have never cared about anybody as humans. They view us as objects to be sucked of any wealth they can extract.

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      1 day ago

      It seems counterintuitive because accepting more people means accepting money from more people. Pushing away potential customers for no reason is just plain stupid

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        You’re not thinking of the other side - the assholes that see those people being represented and catered to and deciding to take their money elsewhere because they disagree that those people deserve representation.