Mrs. dpnewell wrote:Since you do not live in the Philly area, you have no clue. Kate Smith is an intricale part of the Flyers. She was considered a good luck charm as the Flyers had an exceptional win percentage when her version of God Bless America was played before games. During important and playoff games, she would come to the stadium and sing live. After she passed, her daughter took over for her. The Flyers are going to lose way more seats over this PC bullcrap, then they could ever hope to gain from it. This was not done for the sake of capitalism. It was done to kowtol to the bullying, goose stepping leftist elites.
David
Technically, both are done for the sake of capitalism. A company doesn't back down just because a crowd is bullying them. A company only will "kowtow" to the bullying "goose stepping leftist elites" (funny you never use similar language when the right has corporate boycotts for stuff like holiday messages) if they think there will be revenue lost by not doing it. Companies are not egalitarian (and they should not be).
But... again... as I stated above, I didn't read anything about "bullying". Sounds like no one threatened to boycott, or protested... or anything. They just got the information, and decided that wasn't what they want.
I am not going to bother arguing whether it was a good or bad decision... because I honestly don't know. I don't have enough information about who she was... nor am I a minority, so I don't know what it would feel like (if it even registers) to have her statue there. The company made a decision. Whether they were "bullied" or not (I don't see any evidence they were), companies generally make these decisions based on the bottom line.