Patagonia joins growing list of companies boycotting Facebook ads

Re:Patagonia joins growing list of companies boycotting Face... by bricklebush on Monday June 22, 2020 @02:42PM (#23603981)

I think a trouble is that, in this day and age it seems that the outcome is what determines racism, sexism, ageism, etc. We're obsessed with the statistics.

If someone examined your company and found that you now only sold boxes to sports teams that are predominantly white - that would look quite racist would it not? I don't think the details or your intentions would matter much.

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Re:Patagonia joins growing list of companies boycotting Face... by bravoetch on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @04:33PM (#23694460)

I don't think anyone would think that, because my policy is only to sell to teams that recycle. The details and intentions do matter. At a stretch, I can imagine a scenario where recycling companies were for some reason not giving people of color fair access, and that as a result they were being hurt down the chain by my business not supporting them now. Those are the kinds of systems we need to work to identify and change and they do exist.

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Re:Patagonia joins growing list of companies boycotting Face... by mrkurt on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:19PM (#23608099)

"In this day and age" we can distinguish between someone being racist and systemic racism.

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