JoeB131
Diamond Member
Lowe's pulls advertising from TLC's 'All-American Muslim' - CNN.com
Lowes pulled an ad they had placed on All-American Muslim essentially claiming that the show was to controversial. Now they are getting a lot of flack claiming that they are upholding an anti Muslim bigoted attitude. As I understand it, the show is based around AMERICAN Muslims and the struggles they are facing in a post 9/11 America. While I have no issues with how Lowes decides to advertise, this does seem like a bone headed move particularly considering that I would have never even known about the show in the first place until Lowes created this controversy. Many people are now calling Lowes Bigoted for this move.
Your thoughts?
They are free to do this. And they shouldn't complain or ask for federal aid when they experience a backlash.
Not that they will, but why should federal aid be linked to whether a company is "politically correct" or not.
There's only one good reason why a company should get a bailout, and that's if the consequences of its sudden collapse would be more economically disasterous than just letting the market take its course, and if it has a reasonable change of viability after the bailout in order to pay the money back.