AT&T, Verizon, Deloitte, Charter Comm., & General Motors top the list of fake pro-LGBT supportive corporations.
They tweet rainbow flags, then give cash to bigots.
[bold]These 25 rainbow-flag waving companies donated $13 million to anti-gay politicians since 2021[/bold]
by Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria, and Rebecca Crosby
June is Pride Month, and this year's celebration has particular resonance. Over the last year, anti-LGBTQ politicians have relentlessly targeted the community with harmful legislation and other policy initiatives. There are new laws prohibiting teachers from acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ people, new policies targeting trans kids and their parents, and new bans on books with LGBTQ characters.
Major corporations, meanwhile, are eager to communicate that they are allies of the LGBTQ community. They are plastering their social media avatars with rainbows and sponsoring Pride parades. It's part of a strategy to attract the best employees and the widest range of customers. In short, being perceived as welcoming of the LGBTQ community is good for business.
A Popular Information investigation, however, found that 25 major corporations have donated more than $13.2 million to anti-LGBTQ politicians since the start of 2021.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 6, 2022 7:08 PM
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The corps are the true “both sides” assholes.
They literally find politicians on both sides of the aisle, and they SGAF who wins, as long as their bidding is done, and it usually almost always is, so there.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 3, 2022 6:17 AM
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Doublespeak:
GM also prides itself on being the “first automaker to join the Human Rights Campaign’s Business Coalition for the Equality Act.” The coalition was launched in 2016 in support of “federal legislation that would provide the same basic protections to LGBTQ people as are provided to other protected groups under federal law.”
Since 2021, GM has donated at least $605,000 to the campaigns and leadership PACs of members of Congress that have received a zero rating from HRC. GM also donated $125,000 to the RSLC, $300,900 to the RGA, and $1,000 to state legislators behind anti-LGTBQ legislation in Kentucky.
“The GM employee-funded PAC supports the election of U.S. federal and state candidates from both sides of the aisle who foster sound business policies, support American workers and understand the importance of a robust domestic auto industry as we pursue an all-electric vehicle future,” the company told Popular Information. “GM is vocal about our commitment to the LGBTQ community in our company’s policies and we are a signatory of the Human Rights Campaign’s Business Statement Opposing Anti-LGBTQ State Legislation.”
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 3, 2022 6:59 PM
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Anyone who flies that disgusting flag should be shot. What an eyesore.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 6, 2022 5:12 PM
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What about all the companies that cater to Arab states, Iran, China and India where homosexuality ranges from punishable to a death sentence?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 6, 2022 5:16 PM
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It's ridiculous corporations have to pay this sort of protection money to these racketeers
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 6, 2022 6:21 PM
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R5, homosexuality is not illegal in either China or India. In China it hasn’t been illegal since the 70s although media rights slid backwards; in India it used to be accepted a couple hundred years ago and was again made legal in 2018.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 6, 2022 6:58 PM
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Correction - it was illegal in China until 1997…homosexual content was temporarily banned on Weibo in 2018 until a public outcry in China reversed that. And then last year some college LGBT pages were taken down….
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 6, 2022 7:08 PM
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