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BLM may be a good thing, but the simple fact is that it has still become politicized and while not displaying BLM causes no customers to get pissy, displaying it does get some customers pissy. Companies aren't obligated to "rock the boat".
Maybe we shouldn't coddle and normalize bigots
So all it takes for you to stop supporting a cause is for someone to make it political, no matter how good or helpful it is?
So say you find out your boss is stealing from you and you want to stop that from happening but then somebody makes up a stylized “bosses are thieves” logo, and now suddenly workers all over the country can’t do anything to fight against wage theft at work?
If someone says “the bosses are thieves”, they’re making a political statement and should be silenced? Please, help me understand how this works for you, because honestly it sounds like we’re gonna be losing a whole shit ton of rights in your world.
You're thinking like a person instead of a business. If you run a business you aren't going to want your employees wearing whatever slogans/agendas/sayings they want that might upset customers. The workplace isn't an advertisement center for whatever an employee wants. You aren't allowed to work at target unless you're wearing khakis and a plain red shirt. Your employer is allowed to keep a neutral tone and stay out of hot topics if they want to.
They're taking sides either way. This decision says to me they're taking the side of racists that don't believe black lives matter.
Most companies advertise the support BLM, it's just good marketing. Banning BLM is the opposite of this. It's not a good business decisions. They've lost me as a customer, and I don't think I'm all that special.
Not a good business move.
A lot of people don't think that businesses should be allowed to control every element of their employees appearance. This is quite similar to a controversy in France when Euro Disneyland opened there and they had rules about how employees were allowed to have their hair and whether or not they could have piercings etc. In France and much of Europe it's considered normal that an employee should have some bodily autonomy even if they're in the work place, but Disney was an American company so to them their employees shouldn't mind their employer exerting so much control over them.
Sure it's probably in the businesses' interest to make sure their employees all look a certain way, but to some that isn't as important as employees being able to have agency over themselves and how they look.