In order to get on this list (created by the Human Rights Campaign), a company has to have "a non-discrimination policy in place covering sexual orientation and gender identity; offers full benefits to domestic partners; and actively engages with the LGBT community (through employee outreach as well as philanthropy and other engagements outside the workplace)"
Pretty high standards. Tons of liberal colleges can't even meet those. 260 is a lot of companies and I know that at least a hundred of these were in the news recently due to scandalous behavior. Hate sells, it's time to look at the 19 other sides.
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The tl;dr, i suppose, is that the following unpopular companies are damn good at getting gay-rights straight (no pun intended):
Abercrombie & Fitch
American Airlines
American Express
Anheuser-Busch
Apple
AT&T
Bank of America
Barnes & Noble
Best Buy
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Capitol One
Chevron
Chrysler
Cisco
Citigroup
Clear Channel
Clorox
Coca-Cola
Continental Airlines
Coors Brewing
Dell
Dow Chemical
DuPont
(Eastern) Kodak
eBay
EA
Eli Lilly
Ford Motor
GameStop
Gap
General Motors
GlaxoSmithKline
Goldman Sachs
IBM
J.C. Penney
Lehman Brothers
Macy's
MasterCard
Microsoft
New York Times
Nike
Novartis
Oracle
Pepsi
Pfizer
Raytheon
Sears
Shell (Oil)
Starbucks
Sun Microsystems
Target
Time Warner
Toyota
UPS
Viacom
Visa
Walgreens
Walt Disney
Xerox
Yahoo!
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Why exactly does having a good policy towards the LGBT community absolve you of horrendous environmental practices, suppression of unions, fraud, treating your customers like scum, using your position as an arms dealer to illegally influence goverment officials, or killing Nigerian children in unauthorized human drug tests?
ReplyDeleteSure, it's great that these companies aren't also horrible in yet another way, but that's no reason to start _liking_ them.
it doesn't, it's just a big picture thing...
ReplyDeleteIf you think any of those bad things is enough to hate a company, then its totally fine that any number of good things (a similar list detailing companies with the best maternity leave policies also exists) is enough to favor it.
If you want to do a weighted average thing then here is more data for you. unless any smudge on a company's record is enough for you to personally boycott it, more data is always good.
haha "its great that these companies aren't also horrible in yet another way" is so different from how i see it (and what the list means). it's not a they they don't treat gays unfairly, it's that they have an amazingly above-average gay-rights record. that's a nice reason to like them.