My local Target has a specific "seasonal" section set aside for their corporate activist displays. During Black History Month it was full of Black History Stuff. During Women's History Month it was full of RBG and Rosie the Riveter stuff. Now it's full of rainbow stuff. Equal size, equal prominence, but only one of those gets the "oh gee let's boycott with death threats" treatment from the far right. And only one of those gets the enlightened-centrist "you know they're just pandering for your dollars right I'm so above the fray" treatment from the enlightened centrists. Like people can't stop themselves from performatively throwing queers under the bus in the name of accelerationism.
Gotcha. We’re definitely on the same page with this - I was just throwing out some thoughts on why it might be that people complain about rainbow capitalism more than the others. I’m not from the US so all I really know about the climate over there is what I see on Reddit.
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u/Lower-Cartographer79 Jun 01 '23
Out here doing backflips to avoid the real answer.