Companies virtue signaling for Pride month are being cut down to size by woke politicians exposing their donations to anti-LGBTQ politicians. The same politicians with whom the corporate wokesters were trying to court favor do not appear to be buying the messaging they're selling.
Representative Pramila Jayapal has recently taken to outing companies on Twitter for changing their profile photos to rainbow logos, despite donations to Senator Mitch McConnell who opposes the Equality Act.
Woah, CUTE Pride logo ????!
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) June 10, 2021
What's not cute is giving more than $150,000 to Mitch McConnell and other GOP Senators who are actively blocking the Equality Act from becoming law. pic.twitter.com/dev9T6KYw5
What a fun Pride display ????! But what’s not fun is that American Airlines donated $46,617 to Mitch McConnell’s 2020 campaign — while he was actively blocking the Equality Act from becoming law. pic.twitter.com/Sp4GQat9qk
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) June 7, 2021
AT&T donated $56,295 to Mitch McConnell’s 2020 campaign — while he was actively blocking the Equality Act. But what a great Pride Twitter banner ???? pic.twitter.com/qDeBzaGVo2
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) June 6, 2021
One of these tweets caught the attention of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who called the tweets "this week’s guilty pleasure."
This week’s guilty pleasure: watching @RepJayapal go down the list to expose phony corporate #Pride rebrands with how much money they’ve given to fund anti-LGBT+ politicians ?
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 9, 2021
Remember: just because a company slapped on a rainbow? doesn’t mean they support the LGBT+ community https://t.co/3DVV2qykz3
Responding to the tweet from Ocasio-Cortez, Red State Deputy Managing Editor Brandon Morse called the backlash a "teachable moment" for companies who "thought they'd be safe from being eaten by the beast if they fed it."
I feel like this is a teachable moment for brands that thought they'd be safe from being eaten by the beast if they fed it. https://t.co/ecdxYlLvjg
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) June 10, 2021
Despite this backlash from woke politicians, the same politicians were overwhelmingly silent on these company’s drastic differences in international logos versus logos displayed on Middle Eastern or African accounts of the same companies.
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