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.
I was watching Archcast yesterday and I think it was Vee that said it best, you have companies that will pander to the left like your EA, Ford etc. Ben and Jerry's is a leftist company that just happens to make ice cream.
They've ALWAYS been pandering to leftist ideology, it's just that they happened to sell ice cream that was good (which helps a lot that there a lot of fat leftist women and ice cream helps soothe the pain of being a lonely bitch).
It's so easy make your own let alone competitors available that there's no need to put up with their bullshit to buy their products and luckily that train of thought is getting more mainstream.
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.