This way, when the pendulum swings in the other direction and they try to take advantage of us again by showing their support, we can point to the record and show people that it’s not sincere.

We shouldn’t allow them to play both sides of the fence like this.

  • onslaught545@lemmy.zip
    51·
    5 months ago

    Queer owned businesses aren’t ones that 99.9% of people interact with on a daily basis. I doubt there are 5 queer owned businesses that are publicly traded.

    • JillyB@beehaw.org
      91·
      5 months ago

      It wouldn’t be queer owned if it was publicly traded. It would be owned by shareholders.

      • onslaught545@lemmy.zip
        32·
        5 months ago

        That’s a load of shit. Being queer owned doesn’t preclude you from capitalism.

        • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          7·
          5 months ago

          I’m sorry, but what exactly is a load of shit about the above statement? Capitalism =/= publicly traded. For a business to be both publicly traded, and queer owned, there would have to be some sort of covenant preventing shares from being sold to non-queer people. I don’t think that would actually be legal?

          • onslaught545@lemmy.zip
            23·
            5 months ago

            Capitalism and publicly traded are like 3 sides of the same coin.

            • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              61·
              5 months ago

              Uhm, what? Like, come on, I hate capitalism as much as the next queer person, but you’re just spouting nonsense. Twitter isn’t publicly-traded, does that mean it doesn’t participate in capitalism?

                • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                  51·
                  5 months ago

                  Nope, from the first reply I was mainly calling you out for rudely saying something untrue. I think you’re just turning your hatred for capitalism against other queer people, and I think that behaviour sucks.

                  • onslaught545@lemmy.zip
                    14·
                    5 months ago

                    You’re significantly misunderstanding me, but that’s fine since I won’t support trans people anymore since you think I’m an enemy.

                    Might as well be the person I’m portrayed as instead of the person who wants trans people to survive as long as possible.

        • FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          3·
          5 months ago

          Bad management is still a thing. And I’m not against using the levers of capitalism to force businesses to be queer-accepting and prove that queer-phobic managers are incompetent from their numbers.

          This isn’t a replacement for taking down capitalism, but still a tiny victory.