William Lindsey 
“Watching as professional crybabies like Ben Shapiro tried to get people to boycott 'Barbie' because one of the actresses in the film (Hari Nef, who played Doctor Barbie) is trans, and seeing that has absolutely no effect on the film’s success demonstrates that the Bud Light and Target controversies and capitulations only became big deals because Bud Light and Target responded to the outrage as though it were genuine.”
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John Shirley@wdlindsy The thing is, death threats were involved with Bud Light and Target. It's not as if the right wing isn't scarily armed and dangerous. I *guess* it would have been better if they'd stood up and just kept on with the pro LGBT work they'd been doing, but if a major bomb killed a hundred employees, people would question their judgment, to say the least. It's really a hard thing to figure when we have these overarmed nuts out there. It's a miracle no congressperson was killed Jan 6.
@wdlindsy See I'm no fan of big corporations. I dislike box stores. I don't like the room they're taking up, their innate damage to small businesses, their union suppression (in many of them). I satirize them in my fiction, bigtime. But I have some sympathy for their employees who shouldn't be in the line of fire so they can collect their small paychecks.
@JohnShirley2023 As I say, I think any employer has to take into serious consideration the well-being of workers. At the same time, I think Parker Molloy makes a very valid point here about the alacrity with which Target and Bud Light caved in to bullying from the hard right — and this is not a helpful path for corporations to take.