Majority of us don’t really care, it’s until you decided to make it a means to brand your business as minority owned is you trying to make us care about it. Your product or service is what should be the one speaking about whether your business is worth supporting, not who you support and what community. That’s a huge part of, you know - business. Who you decide to serve or not is another thing but that’s not what this is about.
Unpopular opinion or a threat? How do you feel about businesses stating that they are Veteran owned and operated?
Who you decide to serve or not is another thing but that’s not what this is about.
Right, by stating that they are x-owned they’re not stating that that is the group that they are exclusively serving. Women owned businesses aren’t refusing doing business with men, black owned businesses aren’t only doing business with black people.
I think you’re right that in some communities they are likely drawing more attention from racists, misogynists and bigots, but that’s a risk that they are willing to take on and like you said the majority of people don’t care.
I think you just may have a genuine misunderstanding of this and why business owners may choose to identify their businesses like this.
Painting a target for fascists or to whom?
This opinion looks a little question-begging to me: do all businesses who declare these kinds of things do so as branding? I myself, don’t believe they do as many would be doing so for advocacy for minority groups, for example.
I would gladly “paint a target on my back”(whatever that vague threat means) if I could open a minority owned store.
It’s important to show people that success and independence is possible. And if some racist/bigoted idiot has a problem with that, it’s equally important to show yourself standing up to that.
It’s the same as if your company donates to anti-gay causes. Bigots line up to buy your chicken sandwich but others will protest.
Or, you can be Target and piss off both
Or, you can be Target and piss off both
So in Target’s case I think we need to be honest with what happened. People weren’t just protesting their Pride displays or actions and it went way past pissing people off.
Bigots terrorized Target employees, some threw temper tantrum inside stores and destroyed or trashed their displays and there were several bomb threats and Target employees in five states had to be evacuated during this. That’s terrorism and Target, understandably, kind of gave in so their employees wouldn’t get blown up.
I think the general media coverage of this whole thing has been frustrating and lacking and it’s important that I point this out.
My wife works at a Target and had to evacuate due to a bomb threat a few weeks ago. Target didn’t even communicate with employees in a meaningful way about all of it. I don’t blame the media. I think comparatively it’s a great company and I have a lot of good things to say about them but they really managed to disappoint everyone this summer…bigots, lgbtq persons and alllys, as well as employees.
Oh no! Now the conservative religious bigoted pukes will target me, which they definitely didn’t do to my gay aass already.
