Community Chat

[Lali1]

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@vsm wrote:

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@QueenDanceALot wrote:

Sounds to me like a lot of people here just want QVC to

Shut Up and Ship

Well, as imperfect as this statement might be, and as imperfect as all of us are, people are fed up with being told to be quiet.

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Some of us are just as fed up with being preached at.

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Shut up and ship too. Because boy they need to work on shipping. They are a shopping channel. 

[Lali1]

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@suzyQ3 wrote:

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@Lali1 wrote:

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@suzyQ3 wrote:

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@Foxxee wrote:

As I see it, this implies that most of QVC's staff and vendors are guilty.  It also implies many customers are also guilty.  

I know who it is specifically directed...beyond disgusted and tired of it! 

None of these companies think about helping all the small innocent business owners, all races, that were looted, destroyed, and burned. 

I speak for myself, no one else.   

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@Foxxee, for many of us, the issue is much larger than the looters. They were not protesting. They were taking advantage of the situation.

As to whom the statement was intended, I believe it's every one of us. I have no problem admitting that I need to face my own biases that I've internalized. It's a work in progress for me. We'll never be perfect beings, but we can do better.

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If a person never had biases why should they reflect on anything. Sorry but I have never treated people differently because of the color of their skin, or their job or what the wear etc. I'm not impressed by people who wear fancy clothes or jewelry or drive fancy cars. I treat the trash pickup folks the same as anyone else. Skin color, status and material  things mean nothing to who someone is in their heart and mind. 

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@Lali1, I'm sorry, but I don't think that any person stating that they have never, ever had a bias thought or reaction is being honest with themselves. I've heard people make that claim. People I have known. Known very well. And it's never been true.

The big test for me was being in a group of people who mistaked my very gentile married name for my birth surname. Not once, not twice, but several times.

It was eye-opening. These were always people who would have been shocked, shocked, I tell ya, shocked,if they were ever forced to see themselves in the mirror.

The best we can do is to listen to others and to put ourselves in their place.

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Nope I am not lying. I do not treat people differently and have nothing to reflect on. Maybe you feel guilty for something but I do not. Not about this issue. I don't need to be preached to about this. I know what's in my heart in this regard! 

[Cakers3]

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@Anonymous032819 wrote:

Statements like this are to let people know where they stand, and there is nothing wrong with that, because silence = acceptance.

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@Anonymous032819   I disagree.

Another overused phrase.

Since the Q, to my knowledge, has never issued such a statement does it mean that all these years the Q had be unaware of racial concerns or the need for diversity?

Everytime such phrases are bandied about it causes people to dig in their heels; to assess a person based on "silence" is causing more wedges to be pounded in between all people. 

One might look at some ways "non-acceptance" behaviors have taken place recently.

I believe most people do their very best;  and I do believe most of us know right from wrong.

I still have hope that we can still be a better people, a better example, a better country.

And I don't need to wave a sign to prove it.

[ETalso]

I have been waiting for QVC/HSN to make a statement.  I am disappointed I had to search it out though.  I expected to find it upon login or receive the statement in a customer email.  Still, I appreciate it.  No statement reflects no concern for the current state of affairs in this country.  It is very important that we, your customers of color, know that all QVC customers, no matter their race, are truly respected.  Until you walk in the shoes of those who experience injustice on a consistent basis, it might be difficult to accept or believe.  But it's  time for all of us to open our minds and our hearts.  It's time to make a  change as a nation.  One that is fueled with love and compassion for all human beings.  Thanks QVC!

[Sheila P-Burg]

@ETalso  ....... Your post is very well written. I wish everyone would open their hearts and minds but I do not see that happening. And it is long past time we made a change in our country. You should not have to "walk in the shoes of those who experience injustice" to know right from wrong. There is no neutral line. If you do not speak against an injustice your silence is sending a message. Not accepting or acknowledging what is happening will not make it go away. 

[Puppy Lips]

@ETalso Please share with us how QVC has disrespected you. I sincerely want to know. Have you been treated differently or disrespected by QVC? If so, I am sorry that has happened to you.

[Sheila P-Burg]

@Puppy Lips  .....  Re-read the post. The poster did not say they had been treated disrespectful but that QVC should treat all customers with respect.

[SurferWife]

@Mom2Dogs 

Ditto.

[DJP]

Let's give a million dollars to rioters and looters instead of the businesses that lost everything they worked so hard for.  And that includes all colors.

[Pearlee]

@ETalso. I certainly appreciate your thoughts. But you and I (who am Caucasian) are both customers of a shopping channel. That is our relationship with QVC and I sincerely doubt we have ever been treated differently by this company. I was not awaiting a statement from QVC and when I saw it I thought it was pretty much the boilerplate language sent to me by email from other companies recently. And these statements all appear to me to be marketing tools, the politically correct thing to be doing in light of recent events in the news. It seems to me to be PR for the various companies' own interests. So no, I wasn't waiting for it nor did I want it mailed to me.

What is more significant to me as a "statement" about how QVC and any other company treats people equally would be any legal action brought by any person or group -- esp company employees-- about unequal treatment or discrimination of any kind and the result of any such legal action. What goes on behind the
scenes and out of the public eye within companies is more significant to me than the type of statement on QVC's website and other statements emailed to me by other companies.