A few things on this:
1) Corporations are not “woke”. They know where the money is. They have looked at the market and realized that supporting the curtailing of voting rights is not good for business. Or at least not as good for business and coming out against it.
1) Corporations are not “woke”. They know where the money is. They have looked at the market and realized that supporting the curtailing of voting rights is not good for business. Or at least not as good for business and coming out against it.
https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1379074791961980931
2) Corporations are trying to appeal to more people than less. The idea of subtraction isn’t what they’re interested in. They’re against the curtailing of voting rights because people will be subtracted, not added. That doesn’t meet their mission.
3) The game was given away when it was made illegal to bring people food or water while waiting in line to vote. The Georgia legislature could have given these companies more than ample coverage to deny what this clearly is without it. This was an unbelievable own goal.
4) Companies are made of people. Employees and consumers. You cannot expect a company to support legislation that will inevitably disenfranchise your people. It will bounce back and hit you no matter how you try to justify it.
5) By threatening corporations, you are only knee-capping yourself. When Breitbart threatened Kellogg’s in 2017 for dropping their ads from the site, they lost 4,300 more advertisers. Nothing but pain comes from it.
6) In conclusion, this is a dumb tactic to prevent companies from weighing in on the further eroding of voting rights. They’re going to weigh in regardless and by calling for boycotts, you’re only ensuring that they’ll move even further away from you.
BONUS: Oh, and if you want to take away their tax-exempt status, don’t threaten America with a good time.
*as, not and. Dammit.
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