Posted on 08/15/2017 7:51:25 AM PDT by simpson96
CHICAGO A Chicago flower company is asking its customers to take a stance against racism or take their business somewhere else.
Visitors to the website of Flowers for Dreams are presented with a question in a pop-up: Do you condemn racism, Nazism, and white nationalism? If they select Yes, the website thanks them for speaking out against hate, and suggests they make a donation to groups like the Anti-Defamation League.
If they select No, the website says: Thank you but no thank you. We dont want your business here.
Clicking Goodbye then redirects the user to the home page of the U.S. Holocaust Museum.
Flowers for Dreams co-founder and CEO Steven Dyme said the move was inspired by the events in Charlottesville, VA over the weekend, when a man drove a car into a crowd of people protesting a white supremacist rally.
For us it felt like seeing the response on social media that people, especially minority communities, felt vulnerable, Dyme said.
Dyme said many of the companys customers and employees are from diverse communities, including all kinds of races and religions, and it felt like their shared values were under attack. So they came on the idea of implementing a pop-up to show their support for those communities and their opposition to white supremacist groups.
Our customers and our team members are the same, they all speak with their money as a way to express their values, Dyme said. We see ourselves as being a forceful kind of agent of those values to continue to promote them in the world.
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“Yeah. SO brave for taking a stand against racism and nazism. Lol.”
I guess this is like the obams’s, “# bring back our girls”, which didn’t do a thing to resolve the problem. My question is, where do we stop tearing down things the offend someone somewhere?????
Good business strategy doofus!
I see he is white, therefore an automatic racist.
“Who? Who doesn’t want to wear the ribbon?”
I’m fine with this as long as EVERY BUSINESS can have whatever litmus test they want to screen out customers and exclude service to anyone for any reason ... or no reason at all.
Of course, this is a stupid way to run a business ... but being stupid is a free choice as well.
This is Katrina all over again...
Do you still beat your wife? Question.
Just bake the cake
“Do you want a ribbon? It’s to show our solidarity with Charlottesville”
“That town that allowed the KKK and the Nazis to hold rallies? Hell no. “
Allegedly Dyme doates a portion if his company’s profits to local charities. Anyone else curious about how much and to which ones...?
Progressive douchebag.
I suppose there’s a way we could have some fun with the website.
Then might as well remind them that it isn’t white people burning down black neighborhoods or white habitual criminals terrorizing honest black folks and making their lives hell. Moreover it isn’t whites forcing black women to murder their children nor is it white men treating black women like the things they call them in popular white music.
Go for the max before you walk out of their businesses never to darken their doors again.
(The overwhelming majority of the victims of violent crime are of the same race as those who harm them just as most rioters and looters do their thing close to home, qualifying them as dumb-asses rather than the more intelligent rat bastard type).
There’s a flooded bus barn full of busses that could have been used to evacuate the poor and invalid this time too? I did not know that.
“Do you, sir, condemn racism on all sides or just what the media tells you?”
No? Then cancel my order or I’ll report you for stealing my credit card information.
No - the media ignore the facts, that the Democrat controlled city and states willfully allowed a tragedy to happen and just press hyperbole and inflame passions to overthrow the government.
My thoughts exactly.
“Do you still beat your wife? Question.”
Not this one. :)
You can click on the “Contact Us” link and sidestep the racist question.
Showboating-——period.
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