[ojkelly]

The comments here from the first hour are depressingly predictable. Just because you don’t take issue with something doesn’t mean someone else won’t. Brands have always been bigger than their main product. People wear branded tshirts, put stickers on their laptops to show some kind of affinity with a brand.

The opposite can also be true. For reasons they don’t want to use the product anymore, and they want it to be known (they mention they’ve been using it for over a decade).

The reasons themselves have been debated here on the DHH posts themselves, so how about we ask the bigger question.

How can you join the political debate publicly, without risking customers? Or should you risk loosing customers?

How do we talk politics at work? Because sometimes it’s needed. I don’t have the answers, suffice to say starting from a position of respect and a high-trust environment is important.

[adriand]

Absolutely. This is an organization with a set of values, whose members are thoughtful and highly educated, and they don’t want to help enrich someone whose values they find problematic.

This is what free markets are all about. I’m not going to buy my apples from the market stall with the confederate flag. And Bob Iger doesn’t want his movies advertised next to posts spewing white supremacy.

This ability of the market to moderate behaviour is a good thing. It is, after all, entirely peaceful and non-coercive.

[meowtimemania]

Would you buy apples from someone who has a personal blog and posted on that blog that they don’t like affirmative action?