I wonder how extensive rainbow capitalism will be this year, with Trump being a giant ass about it.
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2025
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I wonder too.
Having just weaned myself off of Target for their being too chickenshit to stand up for what is right (they pre-complied with reduced DEI).
I now have money saved up to throw at whover leans in hard to any topic that pisses off the billionaire authoritarian complex.
Is this a joke? On a meme meant to say cis people do too little you are saving your money up to throw it at the next corporation that uses this as a marketing ploy?
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I'm saying that even just incincerely signaling they're on the right side of history will determine my future shopping habits.
No corporation is good, but pretending to be decent is part of the bare minimum to get my money.
And few enough are even pretending to be decent, today, that I have money I could send to those that do. It's hard to find places to shop that are easy to feel good about.
As for anyone deciding whether I'm doing too little: They don't know my gender, what else I am dealing with in my life, or where and how much I donate, or protest.
My point is that Target's CEO lost massive money (more than I will ever see) for siding with the bigots, and we can make others hurt for it too.
Edit: Policing my own tone, to stay helpful and uplifting.
Agreed.
This is a literal "no ethical consumption under capitalism" moment.
I have to buy food, I have to buy clothes, I have to buy all sorts of stuff, or I die naked and starving - and the only power I have is, in some limited cases, I can decide who I give my money to.
And in this moment, both the feds and red state governments are eager to persecute companies with, let's say, politically incorrect viewpoints. Companies that continue to promote those politically incorrect viewpoints, despite the threatened consequences, are preferable to companies that bend the knee and kiss the ring.
Even if it's just corporate virtue signaling. Even if the only value behind it is profitmaxxing. At a time when LGBT+ people are being silenced and driven back into the closet and are afraid or unsafe to be themselves in public, people benefit from seeing that fucking signal.
I bet you could find some queer-owned small businesses to support. Obviously that's still capitalism, but it's better than nothing
I'm aware of some, but recommendations are always welcome!
This is agitprop intended to divide. Don't be a sucker. Cis people didn't start pride month, and have never been excluded from it. All the queer people who are out at your local pride parade don't care about your shallow cynicism, and are more than happy to embrace and celebrate their humanity with anyone and everyone. That's the fucking point.
This is more of a commentary on how liberals etc. are happy to raise a pride flag on government buildings in June, but otherwise fail to be a real support.
I would argue that support is support. The most common failure of the revolutionary is to demand some ridiculous action threshold which does nothing but whittle down the base and isolate vulnerable individuals.
There are plenty of people in this world who have no support besides those who are not prepared to take radical action, or who simply do not know how to do anything besides symbolic activism. Don't remove their support. If you want to help them push their comfort zone then offer real constructive input instead of this cynical slop.
And you would sincerely call those people "allies"?
They certainly think of themselves as such.
I'm not trying to flame you but I hope you can acknowledge that those corporate false-friends did not make this meme (presumably) and thus didn't have to get smuggled into the "cis allies" group. Even if you didn't make this yourself, your posting of it amplifies its message.
Those fake "allies" could have been labeled anything else but, by their inclusion, have been used to cheapen the actual support given by true, well-meaning allies.
For anyone feeling targeted by this meme, here are some ways to help:
- Donate to trans focused charities, like Advocates for Trans Equality or the Transgender Law Center
- Support individual trans people. Surgery is expensive even with insurance due to time needed off work.
- Please god just listen when a trans person says you’ve done something transphobic. The vast, vast majority of trans people don’t speak up about every little thing because we are drowning in transphobia. Generally if someone has said something it’s because it genuinely bothered them, even if it wasn’t ’that bad’ it may be intimately linked for them to past trauma; roughly 40% of trans people meet the criteria for a PTSD diagnosis, compared to less than 5% of the general population.
For anyone who feels targeted by this meme, be more aware of agitprop. If you can't make donations or attend events, it's okay. Just making your allyship known has material benefit.
I’m not gonna do that
I’m not gonna read anything else you say 🥳
yea ;(
Supporting trans people when everything is fine means having a sticker on your car or waterbottle.
Supporting trans people while they are actively being erased means throwing bricks at cops.