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Here's my take.

BMW has Left Hand drive or Right Hand drive. Not racist.

BMW has a choice of Black or White paint finish. Rainbow is being trialed in secret somewhere over the rainbow. Wants to be inclusive, but it is expensive.

BMW has an Automatic or manual Transmission for those wishing to Transition.

BMW is too Conservative to produce Queer Designs. However they are being cautious and testing the market.

BMW stands for Broad Minded Wowsers

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BMW is making a commercial-motivated compromise with evil. Morality doesn't enter here. The rain bow badge sells cars in the West, but not in the East.

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"BMW is very careful to show support for gay rights in countries where gay rights already exist, while being very careful not to show support for gay rights anywhere that gay rights do not exist."

Nothing like preaching to the converted. Actually, this says more about our western society than anything else. It reveals just how weak and how degraded and devoid of any morals and meaningfulness we as a western society have become. This is just as much a reflection upon our society as it is BMW.

I mean, how much resistance is being shown in our society in response to this? Almost none. But in the Middle East, if you're lucky, you never know - you might've at least had the chance to see a show of BMW cars being thrown off roofs!

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Ridiculous! Next they will need to change the colours of the inner logo......once the middle east realises they are the same colours as the Israeli flag!

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Good point! Good observation there Natalie!

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Stupid company! If I had a BMW, which I don't, I would sell it on principle

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haha

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BMW is largely controlled by the Qandt family, Stefan Qandt(29%) and Susanne Klattten nee Qandt 21%, the children of Herbert Qandt who was the son was Gunther Qandt an early,husband of Magda Goebbels, who kept up his Nazi connections and profited from enforced slave labor in his various industries, which like other Nazi supporting industrialists they could acquire from Jewish owners for a pittance. Because of very poor eyesight Herbert never served in armed forces but was involved in his fathers commercial affairs.

Herbert was alble to buy BMW (1960 for about US$10Million) and the rest is history. THe family has never disavowed its Naziu past. Good outline in a book called"Nazi Billonaires: The Dark Secrets of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties by David deJong is an interesting read

With that family history anything is possible to turn a $$$

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Magda Goebbels, nee Quandt poisoned her six children by her second husband, Josef, because she could not bear the thought of her children growing up under a Stalinist regime.

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Oh,that’s terrible! Nice family, eh?

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Sounds very interesting, I must look it up

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I think it might be on Amazon, I bought a copy in an English language bookshop in France last year

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Yes, I found it and bought it on KIndle, thanks

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Spot on. Hypocritical cowards. Go woke. Go broke. They bring the curse on themselves.

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So interesting... imagine the dixussions around the Board table .

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🎯 James!

To BMW & others; go fight the fight where it’s needed or shut-up & stick to what you do ie sell cars, fly planes, sell potato chips…

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More boring predictable hypocrisy.

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