r/dankmemes ☣️ Jun 01 '23

OC Maymay ♨ But sure call them “woke”

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u/errepunto Jun 01 '23

Capitalists doing the capitalism. Nothing new.

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u/kazza789 Jun 01 '23

What else do people expect? A "business" is an abstract legal entity made up of a group of individual people serving a group of individual customers. When, on average, the employees, owners and customers support X then the business supports X. If those groups stopped supporting X then the business would stop supporting X as well.

Like, does OP expect that the legal entity "Walmart" should somehow express its own moral stance on an issue independent from the humans?

Tldr: we live in a society

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u/Nimporian Jun 01 '23

Its mostly poking fun at the advertising and the people that fully believe these are beliefs the company "has".

People lose their minds when a company adds something LGBTQ+ related into their ads, brainwashing this and agenda that. Somehow completely unaware that the company would switch "opinions" on a dime depending on what's profitable.

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u/Jerry_from_Japan Jun 01 '23

Hardly anyone who actually uses the term "woke" uses it in a way that they think the company actually cares. They use it to call them out for pandering.