• NotWearingPants
    +4

    I think you are attributing a conscience to corporations. "Good corporate citizenship" is like "Trust me" from a politician. They hope you'll be dumb enough to believe it.

    If tit was about conscience, they wouldn't have advertised there in the first place, or dropped it long ago. It's about money., as always. They fear the loons making a fuss on social media, but virtue signalling to them isn't going to gain net customers.

    Ask Papa Johns how that worked out.

    • AdelleChattre (edited 6 years ago)
      +3

      loons making a fuss on social media

      You realize you're describing Alex Jones, I hope.

    • Appaloosa
      +5
      @AdelleChattre -

      Here is the dichotomy on the add thing, they don't care who reads them. Ah, virtue signaling, I was wondering when that would work into the mire.

    • NotWearingPants
      +4
      @AdelleChattre -

      Among many others, yes.

    • AdelleChattre (edited 6 years ago)
      +5
      @Appaloosa -

      Seems like it's a stretch to use 'virtue signaling' to describe straightforward business decisions. I mean, "I loathe Trump as much as anyone," now that's virtue signaling. Whereas distancing your brand from a dangerously-unmedicated Alex Jones trolling massacre survivors and victim's families, that's sensible. That just recognizing that we're judged by the people we disassociate with. A better word might be 'decency.'

    • Appaloosa
      +6
      @AdelleChattre -

      You're more generous than I am. Revenue trumps decency, that's the mantra of business!