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LOL. My gym isn’t a “corporation,” it’s owned by one dude and pays for using the Crossfit brand— that said, I should say PAID because he immediately

Posted by JackDawson (aka dawson) Jun 10 '20, 10:58

Disassociated with the brand upon the tweet, took the monthly association fee and donated it to the George Floyd Memorial Fund, and created the workout to honor Floyd

But, by all means, we should definitely paint with broad brushes just like we are asking our adversaries not to!

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*shrug* still a business. Still leveraging a horrific event for an exercise regimen. But less offensive than the I-can't-breathe version, because it's - Beryllium Jun 10, 11:11 6
- It probably just reinforces your position but there's an entire series of named workouts that are named after people who died. Typically in service - JD Jun 10, 11:39 2
  - No, I'm coming around. I'm seeing the honorific aspect. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 10, 11:57 1
    - (The "I don't care" bit below was supposed to be funny by virtue of calling it out as a lie in the IM, but ... it's not as funny as was intended.) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 10, 11:58
- It's like, for LGBT Pride, they organize a workout, advertise it as such, and then do the regime based on the date of the Stonewall riots (which is am - JackDawson Jun 10, 11:17 1
  - I don't care, I'm not going to go to a gym that does stuff like that. - Beryllium Jun 10, 11:23
- "leveraging"? -- nm - JackDawson Jun 10, 11:16
I think that's one thing that does get missed when we stop business with a brand. - Dark Callisto Jun 10, 11:04 5
- Yeah, our Chick Fil A franchisee really impressed us when he spoke about the company's homophobic policies. -- nm - David Jun 10, 11:22 1
  - Yup. I'd probably prefer that a local company disassociate from the corporate umbrella if it's really really evil, but I'm also not one to go into ca - JackDawson Jun 10, 11:30
- My problem with that arrangement is that it forces us to reward bad actors for the sake of supporting local businesses - znufrii, silly old man Jun 10, 11:20 1
  - I mean you don’t have to do anything. Whether or not you choose to shop somewhere is up to you. -- nm - spamlet Jun 10, 12:01
- It gives so much fodder to the nut jobs saying that we are just a mob of pitchforks and torches, but I do understand that many people are more interes - JackDawson Jun 10, 11:10

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