Gather around children and hear tell of June 2020 when corporations blacked out their social media on a Tuesday and made commitments to social justice that they never had any intention of fulfilling.
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Their commitment was worse than superficial; it bought them favor with consumers, and fortified an impression, lasting to this day, that capital could ever be on the side of progress.
And now they're quickly going into "lets gas all the gays ha ha" territory.
Deregulation and market consolidation means they also have a near monopoly, and we don't really have a choice but to give them our money.
In the “tech world” this phenomenon really starts back in 2012 when those voluntary release of diversity metrics led all of our favorite companies to embrace DEI. The black squares stood on a loose foundation of prior commitments tbh.
There has been so much damage by the language of BLM being used by those not like us to placate us into a false sense of security at work & in communities only to hurt us when they don’t stand by those principles when it counts.
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Deregulation and market consolidation means they also have a near monopoly, and we don't really have a choice but to give them our money.