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In an email exchange with a conservative think tank, tucked into an SEC filing, the electronics retailer offered to screen its employee groups’ donations to LGBTQ causes.
Best Buy offered to screen donations from its employee resource groups going to LGBTQ causes following pressure from a conservative think tank that holds shares in the company, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing made public this week.
The SEC filing contains a monthslong email exchange between the National Center for Public Policy Research, which describes itself as a “nonpartisan, free-market conservative think tank,” and Best Buy. The dialogue, which hasn’t been previously reported, shows how the center said it would make “a splash” unless the consumer electronics giant moved in favor of its demands.
In some of the last correspondence in the filing, Best Buy noted that it allows its employee resource groups “some discretion to directly support organizations of their choosing” but added that “any such contributions would be screened to ensure they do not advocate or support the causes or agendas you have identified as concerning.” One of the causes the NCPPR cited was transgender care for minors, which the group falsely described as an attempt to “mutilate the reproductive organs of children.”
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Best buy became worst buy
“non partisan” and “free market conservative” are incompatible with each other
“We believe in an unregulated free market and we are against LGBT people and equality and we’re all going to vote for Trump, but we aren’t Republicans!”
One of the causes the NCPPR cited was transgender care for minors, which the group falsely described as an attempt to “mutilate the reproductive organs of children.”
Why do these right wing freaks have such a fixation on children’s genitals? Nobody is performing bottom surgery on kids. Plenty of trans adults don’t even go for bottom surgery, and never will.
Because they argue in bad faith, always. They don’t give a shit about anyone but themselves, and even then they vote against their own self interest.
Also, Dude, freaks is not the preferred nomenclature; Fascists, please. That was very un-dude-like.
The answer is implied in the question.
I am upset that I can’t boycott a company that I haven’t done business with in well over a decade.
Edit: never mind they have a live chat where I can let them know
It’s clear Best Buy is dying anyway. There’s not many of them around and it’s usually a ghost town when I go in one twice a year.
Best Buy is great when you need something right now. Like when a hard drive in your RAID dies and you need a hard drive right fucking now.
Buy yeah. I’ve only gone maybe once in the last five years.
They never have anything in stock. I’ve honestly never had luck with things like that
Guess they won’t become “Best Bi” anytime soon?
This feels like a quick way to get branded as a workplace hostile to LGBTQ employees.
Just like in the 90’s with Focus on the Family and bullshit like that, the conservatives relied on whipping up the rage in a small number of their constituents. Just enough constituents to write letters to people and make them uncomfortable. Just like back then, these fucking pussies in positions of power are capitulating to small groups of people because they’re scared shitless of how violent these unhinged freaks are.
They were never the Moral Majority, they were always the Loud Violent Unethical Grasping Only For Power Minority.
I kinda wish I had cause to shop there so I could very vocally share how this is losing them customers, but I haven’t needed to set foot in one of their stores for years now.
They basically exist at this point to prey on people who aren’t technologically savvy enough to realize they’re being screwed over.
