{"id":175671,"date":"2020-12-28T06:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/28\/ethics-schmethics-amazon-edition\/"},"modified":"2020-12-28T06:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T11:34:00","slug":"ethics-schmethics-amazon-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/28\/ethics-schmethics-amazon-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics, Schmethics, Amazon Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amason’s charity program supports hate groups<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not a surprise.  It doesn’t matter if it’s the American Civil Liberties Union, or the America Nazi Party, Amazon gets its vig from purchases in either case: <\/p>\n

AmazonSmile, which launched in 2013, would seem to be one of the mega-corporation\u2019s less overtly awful functions: it\u2019s a simple service that adds a surcharge to Amazon purchases and donates it to a participating charity of a shopper\u2019s choice. However, UK-based media organization openDemocracy has found among those eligible charities were over 40 anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-choice groups. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll put a bow on it, I\u2019ll scream it, I\u2019ll whisper it, but I am here to tell you that Amazon is a terrible company.<\/p>\n

openDemocracy identified<\/a> powerful anti-LGBTQ+ groups that are, at the time of this writing, live on AmazonSmile\u2019s search portal. They list the Indiana chapter of the Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group the American Family Association<\/a>, whose radio host and figurehead Bryan Fischer<\/a> has said that the \u201cNazi party…was rooted in the homosexual movement.\u201d There\u2019s also Focus on the Family, which spawned<\/a> the SPLC-designated hate group the Family Research Council. Of founder James Dobson, the SPLC writes<\/a> that \u201cno one has spread the anti-gay gospel as widely, or with as much political impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know how much money these hate-mongering groups have raised directly via AmazonSmile, but this disturbing news has come to light at a time when Amazon\u2019s revenue has gone through the roof<\/a> thanks to a captive customer base stuck at home during a pandemic.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed.<\/p>\n

My old axiom, “If they treat their employees like sh%$, how do you think that they will treat you as a customer,” should be expanded from, “You as a customer,” to, “All of us as a society.”  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amason’s charity program supports hate groups. Not a surprise.  It doesn’t matter if it’s the American Civil Liberties Union, or the America Nazi Party, Amazon gets its vig from purchases in either case: AmazonSmile, which launched in 2013, would seem to be one of the mega-corporation\u2019s less overtly awful functions: it\u2019s a simple service that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[617,365,599,368,364,387],"class_list":["post-175671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-amazon","tag-business","tag-charity","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}