Best Buy offers to screen LGBTQ nonprofit donations after conservative pressure, filing shows

Best Buy offered to screen donations from its employee resource groups going to LGBTQ causes after pressure from a conservative think tank, SEC filing shows.

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Don’t miss clicking through in the article to the actual filings - it includes the emails exchanged to reach this agreement - quite enlightening. #bestbuy
@ChristinaSiunOConnell Boycott Best Buy.

@IveyJanette @ChristinaSiunOConnell YUP.

These big companies need to learn the hard way that caving to right-wing pressures is NOT lucrative.

@IveyJanette @ChristinaSiunOConnell While I in no way disagree, I do wonder what options there are for most folks nowadays. Independent general electronics/appliance stores aren’t exactly thick on the ground anymore. :(

@Caution @IveyJanette @ChristinaSiunOConnell I tend to only use ‘brick and mortar’ to get a feel and review of the products I’m interested in, and then buy online.

Mind you, Australia doesn’t have much of a haggling culture like in Asia, not sure about the North America.

@ki_sekiya @IveyJanette @ChristinaSiunOConnell That’s primarily what I was thinking of. For a lot of people, especially in NA, big-box stores and such are the only option.

@ChristinaSiunOConnell You have a typo in one of your hashtags.

and to hell with Best Buy.

@alan Thanks on the typo - I’d correct but don’t want to lose the comments etc … but thanks
@ChristinaSiunOConnell Appalling. More about the company.
"Its subsidiaries include Geek Squad, Magnolia Audio Video, and Pacific Sales."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Buy
Best Buy - Wikipedia

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Does Best Buy really think LGBTQ have destroyed more lives and raped more women than "conservatives"?
@ChristinaSiunOConnell In related news, customers offer to screen Best Buy in their hardware and appliance purchases.
@ChristinaSiunOConnell LOL Best Buy still exists

@dannotdaniel @ChristinaSiunOConnell Had the same thought.

Big box stores are so quaint

@Edgar @ChristinaSiunOConnell lookit that Blockbuster looking logo
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If you are on the purchasing committee at a school or university check that all the other right people on that committee know. Just at to keep up with the news of course.
@ChristinaSiunOConnell I offer to screen my Best Buy purchases. I guess they are trying to go out of business.
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Whole lotta people bitching about BB caving to these jacksses but nobody bitching about the jackasses. Fucking blackmailers.
@dbc3 @ChristinaSiunOConnell I think the reason for that is that we may well actually have a direct relationship with BestBuy in the form of having purchased from them, while we none of us have ever knowing supported the scum at the think tank.
@VirginiaHolloway @ChristinaSiunOConnell oh, i agree with bitching about bb caving but just thought it odd that nobody in comments said anything like you just did about the blackmailer.
@ChristinaSiunOConnell They're closing stores by the droves. One reddit thread says they'll be out of business by the end of the year.
Be sure to help them do just that.

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Thank Dog, the Ethan Peck at that far right extremist group is NOT the actor of the same name in Star Trek Strange New Worlds.

@ChristinaSiunOConnell Let's call out National Center for Public Policy Research, too. This is not what “nonpartisan, free-market conservative think tanks" are supposed to do!