July 4: Virtue signals on twitter about America being on "stolen land" (lol fuck off), draws ire of conservatives, Unilever parent company drops $2 Billion in market cap amid possible boycott https://nypost.com/2023/07/06/ben-jerrys-boycott-calls-unilever-stock-falls/
July 6: Ben Cohen arrested at a Free Assange rally in Washington DC hosted by Code Pink https://nypost.com/2023/07/06/ben-jerrys-co-founder-ben-cohen-arrested-during-dc-protest/
July 8: Indian chief contacts B&J letting them know that his tribe was from the land their headquarters is now on, and is happy to take the land back (no answer so far) https://nypost.com/2023/07/07/ben-jerrys-hq-is-on-native-american-land-vermont-chief/
I honestly don't think I've ever seen a petard-hoisting this fast before.
That was my first thought. Why would conservatives boycott them now? They've always done virtue signaling campaigns.
I think after Budweiser, conservatives realised 'wait? Just not buying their products is enough to hurt them? Just switching my buying habits is enough?' and they've adopted that tactic ever since.
If this happened last year, the Budweiser boycott and the ones like them wouldn't have been as effective. But with ESG running out so much that Blackrock is distancing themselves from it, it's like the worse time to pander to the left when they are starting to experience the pendulum swing and there's no longer the safety net of venture capital that they NEED a consumer base to survive.
Blackrock isn't distancing themselves from ESG.
They're trying to rename it because they know it's unpopular, but it's still full steam ahead.
Bingo. This is a typical tactic of trying to get the results you want with as little backlash as possible. They’ll keep changing the name until everyone forgets a social credit score exists or there’s very little news about it. You’ll still hear about it from Glenn Beck, because he was one of the first to report on ESG, but you won’t hear about it on any other major right wing news outlets because nobody will care by then.
Correct, 1,000 times correct. Another example: They’ve just about successfully jumped off the word “woke,” which leftists were still using as a positive term applicable to themselves until about 2020 or 2021. I know I still heard a few (older) SJW types use it that way in ‘21. But now their programmed line is to claim only right-wingers use the word, and that it has no definition even though they used it explicitly and with a clear definition for ten years. It’s all word games, that’s all they have. Try to operate in the shadows as long as they can, and when detected, the way they get back in the shadows is by renaming whatever they are still doing.
Yup. The enemy seeks deflection once the right makes headway on something.
Note we're not hearing about Critical Race Theory anymore. It's still there, but they are keeping quite because the troon groomers is attracting more dissident attention, and they think they can work with that, more than defending explicit racialism in school.
I think the Budweiser event was so powerful it created a social graph for these kinds of boycotts.
People you don't know really well like a coworker say they're boycotting Budweiser, but you didn't know how they felt about this specific issue or boycotts. That creates a social link where you know you can tell them directly about Ben and Jerry's and other things like that.
Without Budweiser you wouldn't bring up B&J, but now you can tell them B&J is also up to no good and so the momentum behind a boycott grows faster and easier than before.
Leftism only got as far as it did by making people too scared to be honest with each other. Because if you let someone know you aren't comfortable with Pride Parades waving dongs in kids' faces you might get destroyed socially.
Now people are realizing they aren't alone, that they actually can say these things and aren't evil for doing so. Its undoing the isolating effect the Left has been pushing for decades.
Critical mass maybe, I think the success of the Bud Light boycott made a lot of normally fatalistic people realize that voting with your wallet can actually do serious damage. But then again it's only been a few days, could be the market knee-jerk reacting to the mere idea of a boycott.
Yep. If I was going to boycott B&J, I would have had to actually buy B&J. I never have because I have always considered them overhyped and overpriced, and I can get ice cream that taste better and is cheaper from store brands or local brands (where I live, the most popular being the stuff made by the university Dairy Science program).
I remember they getting some icecream with BLM or diversity a while back and the owners had TDS. They also had a campaign for Bernie? A bit fuzzy on the details but if you look in to their promotional icecreams you will find all the leftist crap.
And don't forget the Late Night Show hosts.
Being more left wing in the day, they do make good ice cream. Their Stephen Colbert ice cream wasn't too bad.
However, they actively fund Leftist organizations, legal defense funds, and other such programs to support Leftist terrorism, rioting, political pressure, and more. They typically make wildly retarded political statements on twitter even defending race riots and more. But the real problem is that they are a source of income for the Left to parasitize.
It's called "a front business". Lucky Luciano owned a candy shop for the same purposes: laundering illegal money into legal ones while using it as a cover for his illegitimate businesses.