Rainbow capitalism appears to be falling apart at the seams
Rainbow capitalism appears to be falling apart at the seams
Now even Starbucks is tossing aside the queer community. I will now paste reporting from the Starbucks Workers United Twitter. I don't recommend you actually go on that site, the replies are full of blue-check fascists.
I wonder if right now, (is there a word for it) anti-rainbow capitalism is just too enticing.
There's a huge intersection between the anti-woke crowd and people who are easily fleeced into dubious spending on affiliation cues. (See: any product labelled 'Patriot' up to and including the missile system.)
This means there's a new gold rush in being slightly bigoted: enough to make the bigots feel like they've gotten concessions, but not enough to actually drive away the Gay Money they earned in last year's pandering.
Some of this will doubtlessly go very wrong for the firms doing the dance, but it's a logical endgame: they don't care about the bigots any more than any other demographic, thry'll just service any audience to the level necessary to open their wallets.
I'm surprised they aren't working on quantum marketing: how do you sell rainbow flags and the petrol to burn them in the same flyer?
This kind of exists. For instance, Chick-Fil-A uses its profits to fund LGBT extermination, but has now announced a diversity officer or something in order to court a handful of gays (a lot already still buy their chicken - don't ask me why). Cracker Barrel recently signaled in favor of the LGBT+ community, but the whole theming of the chain is for a conservative demographic. Of course with both cases, the reactionaries had a huge fit over it online.
The holy grail of quantum marketing is to have separate subsidiaries of a giant corporation to market towards different demographics. This probably exists but IDK any examples. I know people like to point out how different international branches pretend or pretend not to care about gays though.
That was sort of rhe original idea that made GM a world-conquering success in the early 20th century-- although the market segmentation was largely price tier, and therefore more age-group/social strata based. If you already know how to sell Cadillacs with a very different marketing message than Chevrolets, it's a small step to put rainbow badges on one brand but not the other.
I can't wait until there's a woke and anti-woke version of the same company in every industry, and they're all owned by Blackrock.
didn't the company behind Budweiser literally just do this?