It ain’t gonna happen. The majority of people don’t care. Fascism is the playground of big corporations so they will all fall in line and people will support them. It was the same in Nazi Germany.
IG Farben literally had a slave labor camp at Auschwitz-Monowitz and only got a slap on the wrist for that. Fuckers should have been hung, but nope, they got released in 1951 because they behaved so well in prison lol. The constituent companies (Bayer, Hoechst and BASF) still exist and do very well. Yes, Bayer, the ones that sent HIV-contaminated blood packs to a humanitarian crisis in the Amazon, noticed their error early on and then swept it under the rug for months until the public found out. No repercussions for that one neither, it’s called being above the law.
Typically, when looking at such companies history, it might look something like this:
1911: Founded in Hinterwalddorf by the two Goldstein brothers under the name “Goldstein Maschinenbau GbR”
1918: First branch in Nachbardorf, beginning of market expansion
1925: 100th branch openedin Hauptstadt, revenue increases
1933: First international branch in Austria
1938: Goldstein brothers leave the company, transfering ownership to the Wolf family
1939: Renaming of the company to “Reichsmaschinengesellschaft AG”
1947: Reestablishment of the company by the two youngest nephews of the Wolf family as “Hinterwalddorfer Maschinen GmbH”
Not so fun fact: The company that made the protective paint for the Holocaust memorial in Berlin owned significant shares in one of the Cyankali suppliers for the gas chambers.
Why? The only thing needed would have been to throw the really bad ones into prison and take the wealth from the owners. Also 95% seems high. Most companies are pretty small and your average backery did not have much to do with mass murder.
It was to illustrate the futility. Name a single boycott that actually hit a corporation hard and forced them to be a little less shitty. I am not aware of any except for maybe maybe the Montgomery Bus boycott.
This is Poland we’re talking about. Any company even hinting at exonerating the Nazis, the Soviets, the Russian Empire or any historic aggressor going back to the Teutonic Knights is going to find the local market hard going.
To be fair the Poles have a lot more to hold grudges about. We basically just fought our one direct neighbour and also ourselves for most of a millennium and then eventually our king inherited their throne. And then we kept fighting them and each other for another hundred and fifty years. There was a bit of a thing with Norway early on, and we invaded Ireland that one time, but we’ve been too out of the way of everyone else in Europe to get in that many fights*
Meanwhile the Poles are basically playing Doom: Eternal on horseback
* …until the British empire, of course, at which point we had teamed up with England and went on to fight literally everyone everywhere. I don’t think we can justifiably hold grudges over that, though, given that we started most of it by rocking up in boats and saying everything was ours
It ain’t gonna happen. The majority of people don’t care. Fascism is the playground of big corporations so they will all fall in line and people will support them. It was the same in Nazi Germany.
IG Farben literally had a slave labor camp at Auschwitz-Monowitz and only got a slap on the wrist for that. Fuckers should have been hung, but nope, they got released in 1951 because they behaved so well in prison lol. The constituent companies (Bayer, Hoechst and BASF) still exist and do very well. Yes, Bayer, the ones that sent HIV-contaminated blood packs to a humanitarian crisis in the Amazon, noticed their error early on and then swept it under the rug for months until the public found out. No repercussions for that one neither, it’s called being above the law.
95% of all German companies that existed prior Hitler has a dark chapter. You wanna get rid of them all?
Typically, when looking at such companies history, it might look something like this:
1911: Founded in Hinterwalddorf by the two Goldstein brothers under the name “Goldstein Maschinenbau GbR”
1918: First branch in Nachbardorf, beginning of market expansion
1925: 100th branch openedin Hauptstadt, revenue increases
1933: First international branch in Austria
1938: Goldstein brothers leave the company, transfering ownership to the Wolf family
1939: Renaming of the company to “Reichsmaschinengesellschaft AG”
1947: Reestablishment of the company by the two youngest nephews of the Wolf family as “Hinterwalddorfer Maschinen GmbH”
etc.
Not so fun fact: The company that made the protective paint for the Holocaust memorial in Berlin owned significant shares in one of the Cyankali suppliers for the gas chambers.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2003/12/01/work-resumes-on-berlin-holocaust-memorial-after-halt-in-construction-when-it-emerged-that-company-profited-from-the-production-of-zyklon-b-gas-during-the-war
Why? The only thing needed would have been to throw the really bad ones into prison and take the wealth from the owners. Also 95% seems high. Most companies are pretty small and your average backery did not have much to do with mass murder.
It was to illustrate the futility. Name a single boycott that actually hit a corporation hard and forced them to be a little less shitty. I am not aware of any except for maybe maybe the Montgomery Bus boycott.
The Delano grape strike and boycott.
Well, let’s hope for a repeat then.
Yes.chad
This is Poland we’re talking about. Any company even hinting at exonerating the Nazis, the Soviets, the Russian Empire or any historic aggressor going back to the Teutonic Knights is going to find the local market hard going.
And they say the Scottish hold grudges
To be fair the Poles have a lot more to hold grudges about. We basically just fought our one direct neighbour and also ourselves for most of a millennium and then eventually our king inherited their throne. And then we kept fighting them and each other for another hundred and fifty years. There was a bit of a thing with Norway early on, and we invaded Ireland that one time, but we’ve been too out of the way of everyone else in Europe to get in that many fights*
Meanwhile the Poles are basically playing Doom: Eternal on horseback
* …until the British empire, of course, at which point we had teamed up with England and went on to fight literally everyone everywhere. I don’t think we can justifiably hold grudges over that, though, given that we started most of it by rocking up in boats and saying everything was ours