re: GoodYear issues complete statement.... "it was not distributed through corprate"

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we ask that employees refrain from political statements outside of those of racial justice" certainly seems to suggest that "Black Lives Matter" is an acceptable statement but "Back the Blue" would not be. so... the slide was correct?

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I agree, and if they’re waiting for me to buy tires from them they might as well change their name to Badyear.

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Better answer needed before I will ever buy another Goodyear tire.

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Goodyear's statement doesn't even make it better. They basically said that they don't allow political advocacy except for in a couple of cases where they totally allow political advocacy

The stupid f**** have no self-awareness

Now we know where social justice warriors with useless degrees in Critical Race Theory get hired: as woke PR flacks who write weasel worded corporate statements about a company’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.

They didn’t deny the content or the slides existence, only that it didn’t come from “corporate.”

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Why is Goodyear involving themselves in any kind of advocacy? That still doesn't explain why "Black Lives Matter" is good, but "All Lives Matter" is bad.

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Because in their minds, BLM is not a political statement...it's a statement of fact. Think back to the phrase, "it's a human rights issue" that got tossed around a lot when companies began first kowtowing to the mob as the riots started. People mad that they were doing this started complaining and nearly every one of them repeated some form of, "It's not a political issue, it's a human rights issue." Can't tell you how many companies I'd bought thousands of dollars of products from over the years I stopped following and decided to never buy from again thanks to that little rhetorical game.

When you frame your own point of view as a truth and not a well reasoned opinion, there's no reason to entertain any arguments about it. And when your point of view is a truth, and someone attempts to offer a rebuttal, then that's obviously false by definition. It can be ignored out of hand. And, if you've been so bold as to not only declare your position true but also GOOD, then the opposition is not just false but Evil. At that point, anyone that continues to espouses those claims are asking to be reprimanded...

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So All Lives Matter and Support the Blue t-shirts along with Black Lives Matter shirt are allowed?

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No.

BLM, since they have decided that represents "racial injustice and equity" are allowed. All others are considered political, so not allowed.

gillette loses 8bbn

surely you will retort that its a write down or not the real numbers, blah blah

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There are many more but when he man running for president politicizes race then they can no longer hide behind a human rights issue.

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In reality, they can't hide behind it at all. The problem is far too few people stop those conversations at that point and ask them to show their work.

The minute someone asserts something along the lines of "white privilege" or "systemic racism" or any one of the host of buzzwords tossed around which sounds great but have no facts attached to them, they need to be stopped right there and told to "prove your assertion. Show me the facts which back this up."

Otherwise, you have a multi billionaire black lady talking about how even the poorest white folks have their whiteness to fall back on and that gives them privilege over her...and people lap it up.