• Kichae@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The only way big brands keep expanding is by finding new audiences to appeal to. Groups who were socially excluded in the past become the next big target demographic as companies reach saturation in other markets.

    Having their business be publicly associated with groups who are openly attacking these new frontiers of sales is absolutely something they want to avoid.

    Not, you know, because they believe Nazis are bad - they may or may not hold that view - but because Nazis are unpopular.

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      1 year ago

      While that’s how things used to be, the heavy rebranding of white supremacy into this new alt right “anti woke” has made Nazi views a lot more mainstream. One of the most popular “news” networks in North America normalize white supremacist ideology daily to hundreds of millions.