Re:To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided
by crooked-v on Sunday November 22, 2020 @10:43PM
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> Probably the largest incident in memory is when someone tried to use the customer-only restroom at Starbucks without making a purchase, refused to leave, and then was arrested. This was a national scandal that resulted in Starbucks closing its 8,000 stores for racial bias training.
It's worth noting that the company's official policy was and is to allow people to stay as long as they like without making a purchase, and that witnesses to the event described white people in the store doing exactly that at the same time the black man was arrested.
Re:To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided
by Consultant32452 on Sunday November 22, 2020 @11:19PM
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A reasonable response would have looked like firing the at-fault employee, compensating the victims, issuing an apology, and sending a memo to other employees clarifying policy. This would have been an appropriate apolitical response to such an event.
Instead they closed 8,000 stores and put their employees through critical race theory inspired implicit bias training.
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Re:To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided
by useragent86 on Sunday November 22, 2020 @10:59PM
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The Salvation Army has a long history of feeding and clothing people in need, including homosexual people.
Re:To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided
by joshuamorton on Sunday November 22, 2020 @10:42PM
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Actually yes, salvation army is considered pretty bad due to a number of homophobic and anti-homeless tendencies.
Re:To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided
by lawnchair_larry on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:36AM
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You’re right, we are net positive if they don’t help anyone at all.
(Also, they are neither homophobic nor anti-homeless)
Do you remember when Chic-Fil-A was getting boycotted and harassed for the owner's donations to evil homophobic charities? Those charities were The Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Seriously, that's who it was. The Salvation Army and youth sports. Not exactly top of anyone sane's list of "problematic" charities. Chic-Fil-A caved.
Every few weeks I see blue check Twitter going after some nobody to get them banned, but I don't keep track of those things.