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While it's not wrong to be cynical about it, this isn't exactly the right reason. The Nazis would just take over companies and install new leadership if they were inadequately supportive.
It's not even "if I don't do it, someone else will, so I may as well do it". A lot of people did refuse to do it and were arrested or fired.
Beyond that, everyone involved in the decision is dead now. They could have all been Nazis and that would have little bearing on if the people who work there now were.
The reason to be cynical is because companies can't care about things, so if they say they do it's a lie.
People inside the company might care, and might find a way to get the company to do something good, but that's a person finding a way to use the company for good, not the company caring or being good.
Unlike the Nazis, no one is forcing them to embrace pride. They do it because they think it's a profitable demographic.
Maybe it’s just liberalism Stockholm syndrome talking, but I find it somehow comforting that communicating support for LGBT+ issues is considered a good business move.
It’s an important bell-weather. Hate might be increasingly popular, but it’s still not a good way to make money.
So yeah, rainbow capitalism is crass and self serving and shallow. But it also means the global economic elite aren’t quite ready embrace full on queer killing Nazis just yet.
It's precisely a good bell-weather! It means that the cold money monsters think gay people and their supporters have more money, and hate doesn't have the power to punish them. It also means that good people who work for the company feel safe saying "donating resources to LGBT teen suicide prevention would be great.... Advertising?" And the money monsters don't disagree, and the bad people don't have enough sway to squash it.
Rainbow capitalism is a parasite that feeds on social tolerance. It's gross that it showed up, but it couldn't unless society was in an at least moderately healthy place.
Just don't fall into the trap of personifying the companies that do many people do.