What is the reason Indian corporate doesn't stand on social injustice?
When George Floyd was choked to death, all of America corporate took a stand. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/business/media/companies-marketing-black-lives-matter-george-floyd.html
When Chinese government took over Hong Kong, majority of corporates took a stand against Chinese government
When Kuki women are paraded naked, gang raped, and killed, I see complete lack of any discourse in office space, what do you think is the reason?
Who are you going to protest against? The Meitei community as a whole?
The examples you've quoted are movements against state sponsored / supported suppression - and you're using them to justify social "action" in inter-ethnic violence.
Exactly what do you want said companies to motivate people to do - because boycotts and campaigning in Mumbai is definitely going to resolve the numerous historical grievances between the Meitei and the Kuki, right?
Why do companies need to motivate? All I am saying is lack of discourse among corporate employees on this is unsettling. And yes you can have discourse on inaction by government without taking sides.
Why do you want your company to facilitate this discourse? Have it with your colleagues if you want, who’s stopping you?
Forget corporates, We have a friends group of 14, I posted one article in the whatsapp group about the Kuki incident and only one asked more details about it and expressed himself. Others just left the msg on seen.
I feel most of us only react, if it happens to us.
Exactly, I can see the indifference in the comments as well, we are incapable of thinking for the larger good and questioning the system and having a solution based approach. We are happy to do it for our products, projects and startups, i.e. find issues and use tech and human resource to solve customer problem and make moolah, but as soon as it anything to do with society it's a no go zone.
No dude, you're just an insufferable virtue signaller who heard about Manipur for the first time in their life outside of school yesterday.
Apart from polemics about the need for a "solution based approach" - exactly what is your solution for Manipuri ethnic tensions? You're going to get the Meitei and Kuki to share power and cooperate in governance by having corporate office employees talk to each other?
You actually have no clue what you're talking about. Sexual violence was liberally used by Kuki and Naga insurgents in the 1970s, as well as by Meitei communal retributions.
The Kuki have also fought with other tribals - they've discriminated against and pushed out Tamil immigrants, and we've seen a Naga blockade of the region for their own rights.
People are quiet because there is no easy solution - and if you've found one, then please go shout it from the rooftops, god knows they've needed it for the last 60 years. Unfortunately all I see from you is "why haven't we solved this yet?" - which is exactly as helpful as office watercooler talk.
I think American Corporate standing for George Floyd was due to social pressure from employees, particularly the woke ones who kind of forced the companies to do so. It's also basically the culture of such societies where company leaderships take a public stand, not for themselves, but for their whole organisation.
Also, most of times is blatant virtue signalling.
India is a different world. I don't like copy pasta virtuae signalling tbh. Keep your heads down, and keep working.
The company has a structure to do CSR, and can allocate resources based on company policy and societal needs at the point. Employees are free to participate in any social campaign outside their office.
American companies do more for social justice than just virtue signaling, Google and many such companies launched funds to encourage representation from affected communities.
https://startup.google.com/programs/black-founders-fund/united-states/
This is precisely why Americans hate their country.
I don't see any reason why corporates should take a stand on such sensitive issues. Simply because they don't want mobs going after them online (IT cell trolls on Twitter) and offline (attacking their offices and retail outlets).
And, this is the problem with us Indians. We expect corporates and movie stars to take a stand on something but we won't hold the so-called leaders and politicians accountable. We pay our goddamn taxes for this but question someone else who has no relevance to the issue. We are just a bunch of brainwashed f*cks.
I think you should watch Sherni by vidya balan , there is so much we can do. All this nonsensical corporate stand doesn't change anything. So either get into system and change it or this candlestick protest will not help.
I have been trekking in kashmir, cut off from world and only knew abt it today when i opened news after 10 days without n/w. And i would rather live my life than stress on this because Nobody cares unless stones are pelted at his own house or your own house is set on fire.
All I would do is keep working hard, move to safer havens, which is nowhere, USA has mass shootings, India has every community fighting another. Europe has its own backyard on war.
So stop virtue signalling and get busy living.
My view is that it’s okay for corporates to stay away from these issues because we may say it is about a social issue but something like this is bound to get politicized. And it is okay if companies don’t get involved and mind their own business, which is what they are supposed to do. The employees and the founders should speak up in their personal capacity if they wish to do so, but I wouldn’t expect them to take a stand as a company.
Majority of corporates took a stand in China(supposedly) coz they feared it would hit their bottom line.
How do we know companies won't take a stand that make things worse ? Afterall they're only answerable to their owners/shareholders not the people.
