See, nothing you said contradicts what I said. Yes, they created this world, and they did so to drain from us.
But. And this is important.
Their malice is the kind of sociopathic malice that leaves little space for personal enmities. They see all human beings outside their caste as a resource to be exploited, not complete living persons that can be liked or disliked (ever notice how every corp has a literal “Human Resources” department? Yeah.) – Just another datapoint in a dry and emotionless calculus of power.
In other words, most corporate boards don’t really give a shit about queer people, but will say they support queer people if that is popular at the moment, and similarly will say they hate queer people if that is what is popular at the moment. Consider Disney’s inserting of LGBTQ characters in their movies… That can be easily and effortlessly edited out for sale in countries where that isn’t mainstream-acceptable. So that in some countries they can generate buzz about it, but in others they can bury it easily.
It’s all about the money and never about anything else.
@VinesNFluff@ImADifferentBird This was never more obvious to me than the last year or so. Queer-friendly corporatism had reached a point in the US that was becoming frankly a little creepy for me at a queer person. And then, BOOM, all GONE, in an instant, as soon as that was perceived as an economic liability. NOTHING. Just yesterday, I was straining to think of even ONE brand that stuck with us after that, and the only one that came to mind was Target.
See, nothing you said contradicts what I said. Yes, they created this world, and they did so to drain from us.
But. And this is important.
Their malice is the kind of sociopathic malice that leaves little space for personal enmities. They see all human beings outside their caste as a resource to be exploited, not complete living persons that can be liked or disliked (ever notice how every corp has a literal “Human Resources” department? Yeah.) – Just another datapoint in a dry and emotionless calculus of power.
In other words, most corporate boards don’t really give a shit about queer people, but will say they support queer people if that is popular at the moment, and similarly will say they hate queer people if that is what is popular at the moment. Consider Disney’s inserting of LGBTQ characters in their movies… That can be easily and effortlessly edited out for sale in countries where that isn’t mainstream-acceptable. So that in some countries they can generate buzz about it, but in others they can bury it easily.
It’s all about the money and never about anything else.
@VinesNFluff @ImADifferentBird This was never more obvious to me than the last year or so. Queer-friendly corporatism had reached a point in the US that was becoming frankly a little creepy for me at a queer person. And then, BOOM, all GONE, in an instant, as soon as that was perceived as an economic liability. NOTHING. Just yesterday, I was straining to think of even ONE brand that stuck with us after that, and the only one that came to mind was Target.