Those are fair points. Someone pretty high up must have green lighted this though. I don’t this simply came from their marketing team and there is no way an engaged 3rd party PR firm would have done this on their own.
My guess: it had to be personally approved by current Nike CEO Mark Parker and former CEO Phil Knight (who's still on the Board of Directors). They better PRAY the company is big enough to withstand the public relations hit this decision is going to make, especially given what happened to Target Corporation when they tried to please Leftists.
Absolutely. Like I said, corporate virtue signalling. We’ll see how it goes down for them.