- Joined
- Sep 20, 2016
So the cheap athliesure brand she partners with is totally okay because they've made some small effort toward inclusivity, and have hopped on the current BLM bandwagon by throwing a fundraising t-shirt into production. Virtue-signalling suckers buy the t-shirt, while Flabletics not only gets a PR boost, but also a write-off for donating the proceeds.
Seriously, any company selling special merch to raise money from its customers for the feel-good cause du jour is doing it for their own benefit first and foremost.
And while Flabletics is making a show of how much they love black people here in the US, they are anything but transparent when it comes to who makes their clothing, and under what conditions. The only thing they will say is that the factories where their garments are sewn are in Asia. That's it. Could be China, could be Bangladesh; could involve child or slave labor--consumers have no way of knowing. But that their clothes are as cheap as they are? Yeah, there's a reason they aren't more forthcoming about how the sausage (or, in Tess's case, the sausage casings) gets made.