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Thought: In today's world, more often than not, if one is silent on something that is considered tactic approval, or tactic endorsement of <insert whatever here>.
I believe this to be true of today's world. I do not agree with it, but that is the sense that I get. I see it when YouTube is hollered at for allowing certain video's to have ads on them. I see it when people demand companies to withdraw their ads from X shows or X radio station because Y said something offensive. It doesn't matter if the companies that advertise agree with, don't agree with, or simply don't care because they wish to remain apolitical, with what is said by Y show/person. I see it when someone gets fired because they happened to say something that someone, somewhere found offensive and that company does not want the blowback by these people that think they would endorse what was said just because they didn't fire that person. Even though that person was on their own time and not representing that company in the slightest.
What do you think? Is a company endorsing X by simply remaining silent about it?
I believe this to be true of today's world. I do not agree with it, but that is the sense that I get. I see it when YouTube is hollered at for allowing certain video's to have ads on them. I see it when people demand companies to withdraw their ads from X shows or X radio station because Y said something offensive. It doesn't matter if the companies that advertise agree with, don't agree with, or simply don't care because they wish to remain apolitical, with what is said by Y show/person. I see it when someone gets fired because they happened to say something that someone, somewhere found offensive and that company does not want the blowback by these people that think they would endorse what was said just because they didn't fire that person. Even though that person was on their own time and not representing that company in the slightest.
What do you think? Is a company endorsing X by simply remaining silent about it?