Who Are The ExtremistsActivists that bash oil corporations should be considered extremists. Fair is fair.
Attacks against businesses for their inclusion of the LGBTQ+ community have forced companies to try to strike a balance between expressing values or risking backlash — and even violence — from a small but vocal part of their customer bases.
It isn’t just Bud Light — brands across the board are facing calls to boycott their goods or services. Even though no other company has appeared to take the financial hit Anheuser-Busch has, the backlash has in some cases led to the curbing of LGBTQ+ inclusion that had become commonplace in recent years.
Despite the mounting headlines and sustained criticism of Bud Light, corporate boycotts are “overstated” and those offended by campaigns tied to Pride Month are in the “minority,” Ellis said. In a separate “Squawk Box” interview Thursday, she said that there are hundreds of companies, including Nike, North Face and Walmart, still running pride campaigns in the face of pressure from “extremists.”