It seems politics invades everything these days. Now dolls are causing trouble. Since I'm pro-choice and pro-sex-education I don't have a problem with Girls, Inc. but I can understand if someone is opposed to the program deciding to boycott American Girls for donating. After all, I'm the one who posted I won't shop at Target because of practices I disagree with. So has it come to the point where we need to see all of a corporation's sponsorships and donations before we shop? Think about the waste of time corporations must have to spend trying to be politically correct - which is impossible. Maybe corporations shouldn't give money to any causes, just concentrate on stockholders. But what about community involvement? Lots of help for Katrina/Rita victims came from corporations. On the other hand, if they would have given all that money to their employees instead of the community, the employees could donate as they chose and we wouldn't have to decide if we wanted to support the corporation's cause. Hmm. Like the title says, no answers, just questions.
Posted by susan at November 7, 2005 09:47 AMMaybe corporations shouldn't sponsor political or religious groups. As you suggested, if they allocated a portion of their contribution fund to each employee and let the employees donate, that would be nice. They could also give employees "community service hours" - the employee could get paid time off for doing some public service activity of their choice.
Anyway, I agree that one may boycott a company to protest that companies policies. To me that means not buying the products and getting information out so others who agree may boycott. But I don't like picketing or demonstarting at that company's events - putting this issue in the face of young girls who just like the dolls turns me against the protestors immediately.
Some people don't like the Abercrombie and Fitch women's t-shirts that say things like "who needs brains when you have these". They mounted a protest and demanded that Abercrombie stop selling them. To me that's wrong. How can one person prevent some other person from being allowed to be a product that is not harmful? If you don't like it, just don't buy it - leave me alone.
::nodding head::
Posted by: susan at November 7, 2005 12:53 PMMany times I have seen a business promise to match all contributions raised in a particular fund raising drive. This supports the recipient organization in a way that the business' individual employees or shareholders could not
Posted by: Dad at November 7, 2005 10:25 PMYes that is probably the best idea. Just match contributions by individual employees or by fund raising efforts by groups of employees.
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