They can’t be cowed unless they allow themselves to be. Chick-fil-A prospered by defying the gaystapo, not by succumbing to it. Other companies that dare to take a principled stand can benefit from their courage. And they can suffer from cowardice.
“They can’t be cowed unless they allow themselves to be. Chick-fil-A prospered by defying the gaystapo, not by succumbing to it.”
Corporation are quite amoral - they’re very much bottom line oriented. One of the things they fear most is angry mobs descending on their headquarters or the ceo’s mansion making his life miserable. Trust me, you would behave similarly if you were in their shoes.
The left has been masterful at instilling the fear of their mobs in corporate America and now they control them.
We on the right have caved as much as the corporations. It’s not in our DNA to use mob actions to terrorize others, but unless we find a way to make the ceo’s of these corporation even more miserable than the left is able to do, we will fail.
Or alternatevily we have to supply enough public and visible support for them that they’ll develop enough of a backbone that they will stand up to the mob. Most CEO by their very nature lean to the right, so everything else being equal, they would be on our side. They just need some meaningful support by our side to fend off the mob.
So far we haven’t done either.