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⌈ Secret Post #6021 ⌋

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[scissorsevered]

Mihoyo is based in China, so even if they wanted to do something for pride, they'd get shot down by censorship laws in a heartbeat.

I'm honestly glad when companies don't do anything for Pride Month, because it's almost always just a grift. (Except for when local companies/branches sponsor pride events, I'm fine with Bank of America having a couple of ad banners in the parade in exchange for the parade having enough money to function.)

[(Anonymous)]

+1, most big companies doing Pride is bullshit. I mean, it's nice that there's pinkwashing these days compared to "shut up and/or get fired", but in most cases the support is not even skin deep. Even a "we donate $10 to a local charity" is more than most do when they slap rainbows on everything in June.

[(Anonymous)]

This is honestly an abysmally sad way to look at it. Everything is about money to corporations. Does Target care that you need shoes to protect your feet? No! They don't give a shit about your basic food and clothing needs! Do they sell shoes because it makes money? Of course! We are not exempt from capitalism by virtue of being queer, so I'd rather support businesses that want my queer money as much as they want anyone's straight money than ones that don't.

And if you really don't like it, I hope you stick to not buying anything from those corporations at any time of year, not just during Pride Month. Because the latter is indistinguishable from a homophobe boycotting them for that month because of their icky gay shit.

[(Anonymous)]

Seconding this. A big business being visibly in support of queer people and their basic human rights does not count for nothing.

People who think that big, popular companies visibly supporting Pride have no impact and count for nothing, simply because they're motivations are not purely altruistic, are either cynical to the point of stupidity, or they're too young to remember when hardly any businesses were doing it yet.

That obviously doesn't mean these businesses are exemplary allies to the queer community and they do no wrong. It just means that them taking a visible stance is an incrementally beneficial act in and of itself.

[(Anonymous)]

Except all those companies are only visibly in support of queer rights in countries where they don't step on too many toes - just look at all those middle eastern social media branches of international companies where they very pointedly did not change their logo avatars too a rainbow flag version. And not even just for countries where being gay is illegal.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

It's a bellwether. If those companies STOP pandering to us once a year, we need to prepare for bad shit.