In an email exchange with a conservative think tank, tucked into an SEC filing, the electronics retailer offered to screen its employee groups’ donations to LGBTQ causes.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13729593

In an email exchange with a conservative think tank, tucked into an SEC filing, the electronics retailer offered to screen its employee groups’ donations to LGBTQ causes.

Best Buy offered to screen donations from its employee resource groups going to LGBTQ causes following pressure from a conservative think tank that holds shares in the company, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing made public this week.

The SEC filing contains a monthslong email exchange between the National Center for Public Policy Research, which describes itself as a “nonpartisan, free-market conservative think tank,” and Best Buy. The dialogue, which hasn’t been previously reported, shows how the center said it would make “a splash” unless the consumer electronics giant moved in favor of its demands.

In some of the last correspondence in the filing, Best Buy noted that it allows its employee resource groups “some discretion to directly support organizations of their choosing” but added that “any such contributions would be screened to ensure they do not advocate or support the causes or agendas you have identified as concerning.” One of the causes the NCPPR cited was transgender care for minors, which the group falsely described as an attempt to “mutilate the reproductive organs of children.”

  • @Son_of_dadEnglish
    25•7 months ago

    As if I needed another reason to avoid best buy. What is even the point of that place? Their prices are not competitive, their stores suck, their website is a cesspool

    • @[email protected]English
      8•7 months ago

      Can’t remember the last time I went in one. Not really certain where one is locally.

      Maybe I’ll go to their online store and abandon a cart full of gay stuff in protest.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•7 months ago

      I go because I want to keep up competition. I don’t want Amazon to be the only choice in tech and i like in person stores so i can look at stuff and try them out, and not wait for shipping. What’s left? No more RadioShack or Fries. Target, kind of? And microcenter, but there’s not one within 80 miles of me.

      But ya, I wish they would make it easier to support. Guess I’m not shopping there for awhile. Maybe I’ll send a letter because I don’t want to lose another of the few choices I have as a consumer.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•7 months ago

      And buy electronics from Amazon? Yeah, they’re a bastion of good ethics and integrity.