re: Before Amazon pulled them, its sales of Confederate Batlle Flags had skyrocketed

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It's amazing what lengths companies as ubiquitous as Amazon and Ebay will go to seem PC. They actually don't give a shite, but have to do these asinine things so that they don't get their business taken away from them by an issue that will not be talked about two weeks from now.

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The problem is that a very small vocal minority creates a huge uproar and threatens companies like this by saying they'll lose billions in revenue if they don't do the "right" thing. Unfortunately, big companies don't tell these retards to frick off.

You think Amazon would really see a significant drop in revenue if they didn't stop selling these flags? I don't think so.


This reminds me of the NFL having to deal with the domestic violence issues the way they did because they feared loss of revenue and viewership. The average fan would not stop watching football because the NFL didn't ban Adrian Peterson for life. The ones the would stop watching over such nonsense probably were casual fans at best anyway.