Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/07/miami-dolphins-soulcycle-equ.html
Stephen M. Ross scheduled to host fundraiser for President Trump in his Hamptons home
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I guess Donnie needs the dough.
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It is with a heavy heart that I bid a fond farewell to Momofuku’s pork buns.
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It’s almost like capitalism can easily cloak itself in the sheen of progressive values if it means money can be made… It’s almost like companies aren’t our friends!
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I find it odd that an “outspoken champion of racial equality, inclusion, diversity, public education and environmental sustainability” shoves bags of cash down the pants of a guy that is none of these.
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So, “reputational de-laundering”? 
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“Don’t shoot us, we’re just the bad guy’s voluntary human shield and source of money”
“What, this large hot geyser of superpressurized sewage in my living room? That’s been there for 40 years, I think I would know by now if the smell and chunks were a problem. Where are you going? We haven’t even started the fondue”
…ok, but he’s, you know… not.
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So they write it off as a cost?
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I really don’t know how to feel about it. Basically every publicly traded company is equally likely to be owned by an anti-social oligarch.
Of course I don’t watch the Dolphins or know what SoulCycle is, so I don’t have to make any decisions myself. I guess it would probably factor into my decision to go to any of these places, none of which seem like they’d be irreplaceable.
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Billionaire does thing that 90% of billionaires do. People are surprised?
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The profits go to the owners, then are donated.
See? Perfectly clean, the company has nothing to do with it! Fake news!
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Be sure to write the company and let them know that you’re boycotting and why. If people just boycott without telling a company why, they’ll never know.
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I really don’t have an opinion on whether they deserve to have financial problems as a result of where their profits end up. But for them to make that argument, it’s like… so? Are they suggesting I would be in the wrong for declining to fund evil, rather than the person whose evil created that situation?
I just try not to spend money where I know it will fund something I despise. That’s the right decision for me, and if it has wider consequences, that’s someone else’s problem. If SoulCycle wants me to keep* giving them money out of socialist solidarity, they can’t also use market-fundamentalist dogma to claim they’re nothing to do with the person who owns them.
* by which I mean “start”, obviously.
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