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Experiences With Discrimination

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Anna Kuenzi
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In the situation, that a company I support or purchase items from were to be accused of widespread discrimination towards something I identify with, I would have multiple thoughts.

First off, I would want to make sure that these claims are credible. Sometimes, news outlets create fake stories to persuade people to discontinue support for companies. Or, a bitter ex employee could have made false accusations, leading to the lawsuit at hand. If there was credible employees making statements that this was true, or proof on paper that there was discrimination, then I would fully believe it.

I enjoy supporting brands that spread a similar message as I would. Who I am is a big part of my life, and I like to support brands who do not shame or criticize people in general. It wouldn’t really matter to me if the discrimination was towards something I am apart of or not, if what the company did was wrong, I don’t want to be apart of it. If the information did prove to be credible, I would immediately stop supporting the company. In today’s world, politics and caring about the world around us has become huge in the business world. By discriminating against group that I associate with, or anyone in general, I would not be interested in purchasing their products. In a similar fashion, I would not be interested in working with them. The people that I work for need to have similar ethics/morals as mine, so that I can enjoy my employment and feel good about where I work.

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4 responses to “Experiences With Discrimination”

  1. Mckenzie Myers Avatar
    Mckenzie Myers

    Anna – you make a great point about the credibility of the accusations. “False” accusations don’t even need to be purposeful; I know of one person in my organization that feels discriminated against in a promotion decision, but when his lawyer investigated, he was shown to have just been the lesser candidate. I’m totally with you, though, on disassociating with a company that is shown to be systematically discriminating in this way.

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  2. Kaitlin Sauer Avatar
    Kaitlin Sauer

    Hi Anna, I like your point on credibility as I did not think about that when making my post. We unfortunately live in a time were misinformation can spread fast and competitors may put something out there in an attempt to slander a company. I feel the same way in regards to not needing to be apart of the group that is being discriminated against to stop wanting to support that company. I also want to feel good about my work and I can’t imagine going into an office everyday knowing that the people I work for so publicly dislike me.

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  3. Sydney Bahler Avatar
    Sydney Bahler

    I like your point able making sure that the accusations are true, I have unfortunately seen bitter ex employees making terrible claims about managers or the company as a whole that were not true. I think that ‘cancel culture” has had a huge effect on some companies when the claims where false and after they had lost so much business that they can not recover. I agree that finding companies that represent and support who you are is important and can be a deciding factor in whether or not you want to support the company.

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  4. Peter Norrie Avatar
    Peter Norrie

    It’s an interesting point to bring up, especially since going through with a false claim like that can still cause damage even if proven to not be true. But in that scope I feel like not many would be willing to go along with something like this if they knew what they were accusing was untrue. And I agree with your view on deciding to not support these businesses if the discrimination claims were substantiated ultimately. A company wouldn’t have sound decision-making in general anyways if they went out of their way to intentionally not hire the most capable candidate for some arbitrary protected reason.

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