• socsa
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    421 month ago

    All representation is positive. Honestly this just feels of privilege from people who have never had to live in a world where their real identity would get them fired or worse.

    • @[email protected]
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      411 month ago

      Corporations feeling comfortable enough to support LGBT+ people is a good barometer of how we stand in society as a population.

      • @RedditRefugee69
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        41 month ago

        To state the unstated, “comfortable” for a corporation is defined as what stakeholders believe will not damage them financially, boycott vs marketing.

        If they think the boycott outweighs the positive sentiment, they don’t print the ad.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago
        • how much the government likes us combined with how much they have promised to corporations.
    • Lime Buzz (fae/she)
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      1 month ago

      Not necessarily, these same companies will turn around and fire trans or queer people the moment they come out or allow homo/trans phobia to happen.

      So no, not if it leads to exactly 0 material improvement to people’s actual lives and is just a cynical way to make more money (which 9/10 times it is).

    • @Semjaza
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      41 month ago

      And it is people more like the comrade in this meme than the capitalist wearing a rainbow token who got us here, and there is still work to do.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      The issue is that a lot of companies are being performative in that representation. They’ll make a commercial positively representing trans people, and then quietly destroy their DEI initiative and lay-off their trans employees. They’ll make a big show of supporting the LGBT community…until it cuts into their profit margins, and then they’ll gladly make a show of pandering to fascists. We can’t really reward these companies or call them allies when clearly the only thing they actually care about is money. To them, any representation they give is a happy accident on the path to shaking us down.