Amazon boots Black Lives Matter off AmazonSmile as scrutiny intensifies

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[–]BravoVictor 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (7 children)

Conservatives called this 8 years ago. Nice to see all those "guilty white corporate" suits are finally figuring out they can't pay off one corrupt black organization to keep all blacks in-line.

[–]jet199 9 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

I remembering a piece nearly 15 years ago about a Labour mayoral candidate in London meeting a group of gay men and asking them what he could do specifically to help gay people in London.

One of the guys said "I'm just worried about how much I'm being paid in wages and how much I'm paying out in rent, you know, just like everyone else." and the whole group were pretty cynical about the meeting.

The journalist said that was the problem with the left wing parties now, they tried to divide everyone up into demographics which would then be easier to market targeted policies to but those groups didn't actually exist as cohesive groups which really all voted for the same things. It's just shorthand for advertisers to sell their services not a way anyone should see the world.

Of course since then they've kicked all those old cynical gays out of their own movement and replaced them with blue haired kids whose whole identities are their multiple labels and marketable demographic groups they can squeeze themselves into.

[–]Dashing-Dove 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

This is an important detail to keep in mind - sexuality doesn't singularly define every LGB person. Many have the same mundane concerns as anyone else and simply want to get on with their lives, as long as they can do it with a partner they love and no difference in fundamental rights. Unfortunately, the flaming screeching type is frequently shoved front and center by a hijacked, overly politicized movement twisted by corporate interests.

As for BLM, it's funny to me how blatant they are in their hateful biting of the liberal hand that feeds them, which is ashamedly only beginning to retract now.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Another important detail is that for many gay men love or a partner is of no interest either. They just want the plain old dirty sex. We shouldn't have to talk in euphemisms to describe what rights people want, that always backfires. It's backfiring right now with trans people demanding gay people have relationships with them because "hearts not parts" should be most important.

[–]Dashing-Dove 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You can broaden the desire for plain old dirty sex to the entire population, though I agree that sleeping around is normalized among gay and lesbian communities, which some lament and would like to see changed. The trans entitlement is another matter, and it's stupid for the simple reason that attraction isn't freely malleable. Get in line for that relationship behind the fat asses and quadriplegics, they'll be waiting forever.

[–]hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

one corrupt black organization

More like one corrupt black woman with a shell company.

[–]BravoVictor 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Except they're not all black. Ex-lefty terrorist bomber Susan Rosenberg did administrative work for them.

And check out this hilarious "debunking" by Politifact..

The claim: "A Black Lives Matter administrator was arrested in a 1983 bombing at the U.S. Capitol."

What's true: "Rosenberg served on the board of directors for a nonprofit that did administrative work for the Black Lives Matter Global Network, but that arrangement ended in 2020."

So...the claim is 100% true, and they admit she worked for BLM for years, but they're calling it mostly false because...she stopped working for them in 2020, presumably after the organization became irrelevant after the 2020 election...

[–]Brewdabier 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Good, criminals deserve nothing but prison.

[–]Cornfed 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Given that Amazon donated to BLM, the executives responsible should will their assets to actual charities and hang themselves.