We always knew they weren't serious about Pride...

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and the most important in a while

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Sometimes they're used to just point at it in case of an anti-discrimination lawsuit. Sometimes it was a real policy that did real change.

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And who's fault that we got out of the Paris accords?

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Absolutionist garbage.

Granted, it's a low percentage of initiatives that are reaching their goals, typical of many new initiatives, but it's certainly not none. The majority of research and data on DEI initiatives shows that they are benefiting a majority of employees, despite only 5% of initiatives meeting their goals.

It's like saying all weightloss routines are bullcrap because nobody ever meets their weightloss goals.

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I think that actually happened naturally, and when they noticed they made the ads to capitalize on it.

Saw a writeup about it somewhere but I forget where.

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Next pride month we gon' be throwin' the bricks

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Oh, it's actually super easy when you have no shame.

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There's a bright side to this? /s

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As gross as pandering to the community is/was I’d take that over the “back in the closet”

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Target has always been shit.

How Target Funded a ‘Tough On Crime’ Prosecutor’s Office, Driving Black Youth Incarceration in Minneapolis - UNICORN RIOT

Target Corp. funded prosecutors and the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office more than two decades ago during the era of mass incarceration.

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Of course they get to pander.

They do this because they have the incentives to do so. If it is less profitable for business instead of more they will get back to it in a pinch

If not, they won't.

Unless of course, they were being forced to do it, in which case, yikes.

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Peter Thiel finds it convenient to not marry his boyfriends. Makes the murder/clean up easier.

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When I lived in rural areas basically the only sign of gay people was the pride merchandise put out by large corporations.

It doesn't matter in cities that are full of open gay people, but the universal application of these initiatives means it ends up normalizing this stuff in areas that might otherwise not experience it, and for that alone it's a problem that these kinds of things are going away.

It's honestly kinda wild to me how many gay folks are so "I hate pride stuff!" these days tbh, but I guess that's differing perspectives for you.