These events are good for one thing though: expanding your own personal blacklist of companies, organizations, people etc. Like Sony being openly racist and tripling down on that.
Do people actively do this? My politics are so "off-center" that I'd starve to death in the street if I only associated with people and companies whom I agreed with politically.
How do you even keep track? If someone asked me the political stances of my closest colleagues or largest software partners I couldn't even tell you.
There was a time when companies were just companies and politically neutral. That was truly a good time. If they play this misguided game I think it's only fair to punish them. It's just baffling that even the giants do this - Coca Cola Germany or Siemens as examples.
Okay, I'll bite - when was this time? Because I can't think of any.
Consider how many companies were not politically neutral on the issue of worker's rights and unionization. Or neutral on employing members of the Communist party.
Well newspaper companies are kind of special, no? They very often have vocal and official slants.
But I think it's questionable if beverage or kitchen appliance companies should align themselves with a political party. That will by definition alienate some customers. And historically I have a hard time of seeing this prior to the last 10 or so years.
How do you even keep track? If someone asked me the political stances of my closest colleagues or largest software partners I couldn't even tell you.