Best Buy offers to screen LGBTQ nonprofit donations after conservative pressure, filing shows
Best Buy offers to screen LGBTQ nonprofit donations after conservative pressure, filing shows
In an email exchange with a conservative think tank, tucked into an SEC filing, the electronics retailer offered to screen its employee groups’ donations to LGBTQ causes.
Funny how they cry about surgeries that literally don't happen, but chopping the foreskin off is A-OK with them and they want those to keep happening. And breast implants, no problem with those either as long as it's a cis-woman.
Best Buy should have just issued a statement saying those organizations don't advocate surgeries on minors and threaten to sue them for defamation if they go public with it.
Well, I know one place where I will no longer shop.
Basically the only reason I ever shop Amazon is to avoid walking into a Best Buy.
following pressure from a conservative think tank that holds shares in the company
Yeah, while I hate to say I rather support capitalism – living in a milder capitalism country in which the bigger problem is commercialism – I admit capitalism is broken fundamentally. Any bad actor can push their conspiracy just by putting money.
Capitalism is primarily defined by the need to push for constant growth. There's nothing wrong with buying and selling things, but making growth a matter of primacy automatically means the quality of the product and user experience isn't. Neither is the well-being and livelihood of the workers.
In a system where companies are incentivized to compete on that level, we can't have nice things. Not for long anyway.
It's definitely capitalism, rather than just commerce, that's the problem. It's a social cancer.
Increasing wealth inequality is a feature, not a bug, of capitalism.
Capitalism is primarily defined by the need for constant growth
That's an American definition, though. Oxford Languages says "an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit" and that's how it's defined elsewhere, as far as I can tell.
I rarely shop Best Buy as it is so it's not like avoiding them in the future is difficult for me, but I fear that a lot of big corps have something like this tucked away somewhere.
I haven't purchased anything from a Best Buy in many years and don't intend to any time soon.
Ehhhhhh they price match and can sometimes have deals. I try to not give Bezos too much of it.
Gross. Wth Best Buy
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Best Buy offered to screen donations from its employee resource groups going to LGBTQ causes following pressure from a conservative think tank that holds shares in the company, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing made public this week.
Why are Best Buy shareholders funding the proliferation of an ideology seeking to mutilate the reproductive organs of children before they finish puberty?” the proposal, signed by Ethan Peck, an associate at the NCPPR’s Free Enterprise Institute, states.
Later that day, Peck thanked Rizzo in an email “for looking into this” and added, “we’re definitely delighted to hear all that.” He then raised several follow-up questions, including why a page on the Best Buy website still indicates the company supports the Trevor Project and a book titled “Our Gay History in 50 States.”
In response to NBC News’ request for comment, Peck declined to share any specifics regarding his communication with Best Buy, stating, “We don’t discuss confidential discussions.” He did, however, confirm that his organization has sent similar proposals to other public companies, though he did not name them.
Major consumer brands, including Bud Light and Target, have faced heated criticism from conservative activists, prompting a rollback of LGBTQ-focused marketing campaigns and products as well as calls for boycotts.
In Bud Light’s case, sales declined and shares of its parent company, Anheuser-Busch Inbev, tumbled in the months following the beer brand’s partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney on April 1 of last year, though the stock has since rebounded.
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