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Best Buy offers to screen LGBTQ nonprofit donations after conservative pressure, filing shows (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.”

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

"non partisan" and "free market conservative" are incompatible with each other

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"We believe in an unregulated free market and we are against LGBT people and equality and we're all going to vote for Trump, but we aren't Republicans!"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

They want the free market but that's about the only freedom they care about. The freedom to allow exorbitant amounts of money to buy whatever they want. Laws and policies, people, rights to resources we all rely on to survive, the ability to bypass other freedoms...Everything on the table for a price.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

"Our side simply wants to give a voice to simple longheld real American values, your side is pushing an evil agenda!"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

As is “free market” and “conservative.”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

“Conservative” and “Think”….

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

There's at least some tension between "free" and "markets" imo

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

As is "free market conservative" and "think tank".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

I'm starting to see a pattern here