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Here I thought the progressive ideology would be to not buy Nike's because they are overpriced garbage that has a history of questionable manufacturing processes. Professional sports in many ways are like the cornerstone of capitalism.
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Unless you are a politician, there is no reason for anyone to know your own personal political views. Any announcement of such views is signaling. It serves no other purpose.
How are you defining the word “signaling?” Are you being as definitive as you sound when you say serves no other purpose, or do you mean few other purposes? Some would say that celebrities have influence they can use to champion causes they believe in.
And yet, Nike's sales surged when they brought on Kaepernick > Despite Fox News and parts of the social mediasphere predicting the Swoosh’s downfall, the company claimed $163 million in earned media, a $6 billion brand value increase, and a 31% boost in sales. https://www.fastcompany.com/90399316/one-year-later-what-did...
not long after, the Nike Store in Scottsdale, Arizona 'went out of business'.
I wondered if it was correlated.
If I were running a business ethically, I'd want to mute my criticism of politics, including fairly extreme ones. Partisanship is tearing the world apart. I want people with different viewpoints to interact. That's the only way to address them. If we don't work together and we don't shop together, we'll grow more polarized as a result. Democracy isn't a battle, and you win by convincing people, and not by beating the…
Abortion for example, they just hardline "no". It's very exhausting.
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What increased enmity are you referring to? Similar to the War on Christmas and other talking points, I never experience any of this.
Official hate speech policies and enforcement patterns on Reddit, Facebook and Twitter explicitly allow racist speech that targets whites. Facebook: https://reason.com/volokh/2020/12/07/facebook-discriminating... >In the first phase of the project, which was announced internally to a small group in October, engineers said they had changed the company's systems to deprioritize policing contemptuous comments about "whi…
And, furthermore, I would rather tech giants err on the side of less censorship. The problem that they've engendered over the past decade is that they want to punish everyone rather than just dealing with narrow problems. If you realize your platform is being used for, say, harassment; you don't need to impose stricter speech rules. You need to make it harder to use your platform to harass people and provide meaningful support to those who have been harassed. They didn't really... do that. They imposed broad "whatever pisses off our advertisers" policies.
Related note: Reddit did not correct their racism problem. In fact, site administration has explicitly intervened to prohibit operators of such subreddits from closing them down (such as in the case of /r/KotakuInAction). The only time they ever bother enforcing their own rules is when those subs become enough of a problem that investors or advertisers get cold feet.
If I were running a business ethically, I'd want to mute my criticism of politics, including fairly extreme ones. Partisanship is tearing the world apart. I want people with different viewpoints to interact. That's the only way to address them. If we don't work together and we don't shop together, we'll grow more polarized as a result. Democracy isn't a battle, and you win by convincing people, and not by beating the…
If I were running a business ethically, I'd want to mute my criticism of politics, including fairly extreme ones. Partisanship is tearing the world apart. I want people with different viewpoints to interact. That's the only way to address them. If we don't work together and we don't shop together, we'll grow more polarized as a result. Democracy isn't a battle, and you win by convincing people, and not by beating the…