Who cares what happened in the 1940s with regards to a Swedish furniture manufacturer? No one could seriously suggest the company still holds any remotely similar views, especially considering they now sell pride themed furniture. What are you suggesting IKEA should do about that history? Go back and have been founded by somebody else?
Fundamentally I have a problem with oppressed people licking the boots of oppressors. And what that means partially is using consumerism as “representation” (that in this case directly benefits a billionaire family with direct and deep Nazi ties) is not super cool with me. Do you know the term pink washing? It refers to a thinly-veiled attempt to get financial support of queers without any meaningful support to queers. Lots of corporations have pride floats – it’s great, low-cost marketing.
Like whatever. Consume to your heart’s content. But I think it’s pretty embarrassing to have this prepackaged garbage as the best we can do for a modern icon, especially considering the source. You do you, but I’m just saying this shit is dumb.
Who cares what happened in the 1940s with regards to a Swedish furniture manufacturer? No one could seriously suggest the company still holds any remotely similar views, especially considering they now sell pride themed furniture. What are you suggesting IKEA should do about that history? Go back and have been founded by somebody else?
That’s really not an accurate representation. Here’s a short article that goes into this: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-14661582
They’re also heavily implicated in the illegal logging trade in eastern Europe: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/ikea-likely-sold-furniture-linked-illegal-logging-forests-crucial-earth-n1273745
Fundamentally I have a problem with oppressed people licking the boots of oppressors. And what that means partially is using consumerism as “representation” (that in this case directly benefits a billionaire family with direct and deep Nazi ties) is not super cool with me. Do you know the term pink washing? It refers to a thinly-veiled attempt to get financial support of queers without any meaningful support to queers. Lots of corporations have pride floats – it’s great, low-cost marketing.
Like whatever. Consume to your heart’s content. But I think it’s pretty embarrassing to have this prepackaged garbage as the best we can do for a modern icon, especially considering the source. You do you, but I’m just saying this shit is dumb.
99% of my complaint has to do with IKEA being a multinational conglomerate, 1% of my complaint has to do with their Nazi-history.
It’s practically beside the point, it’s just fun to pile on.