The Annals of Corporate Cringe and Woke Marketing

[GoldRanger]

An already extremely woke and liberal company has decided to no longer sell its novelty ice cream in the "Palestinian Occupied Territories" of the West Bank and East Jerusalem... but not in Israel proper where they still have an ice cream factory operating.

Woke Ben & Jerry's won't sell ice cream in "Occupied Palestinian Territory" (AKA Israel)

Israel is too un-woke for ice cream now.

notthebee.com

I mean... I guess that's... a slight... against Israel? It's certainly meant to be but... now the Palestinians aren't getting ice cream? I don't know...

They found out the hard way that this woke shit doesn't fly in Israel:

Israeli distributor slams Ben & Jerry’s for dropping licensing deal

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www.timesofisrael.com

Ben & Jerry's withdraws from Israeli settlements, clashes with parent company Unilever

"We want this company to be led by values and not be dictated by the parent company,” said the chair of Ben & Jerry's board.

www.nbcnews.com

Israel vows to 'act aggressively' against Ben & Jerry's

Israel’s prime minister is vowing to “act aggressively” against the decision by Ben & Jerry’s to stop selling its ice cream in Israeli-occupied territories

abcnews.go.com

To recap, the distributor of Ben & Jerry's in Israel flat out refused to stop selling in the west bank until the contract runs out in ~18 months, Unilever, Ben & Jerry's parent company is pissed at them, and Israel's prime minister is putting pressure on the US to activate its anti BDS laws and smack B&J down.

Here's an article that recaps it quite well:

How the Jewish world is responding to Ben & Jerry's decision to exit Israeli settlements - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Stores pulling Chubby Hubby from their shelves, campaigns to remove kosher certification: here’s what happened when the beloved ice cream company made a statement about “occupied Palestinian territory.”

www.jta.org

Apparently the pro-BDS crowd is also unhappy with them, because "they didn't go far enough" with boycotting Israel.

 

[PsihoKekec]

So via their woke virtue signalling they got themselves under fire from all sides?

 

[Simonbob]

It appears that Reuters has decided to back Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, by pushing her merch, on Twitter. Quite a lot, really.

The tweets are detailed on the link below.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #179 | Lotus Eaters


I thought it was..... telling.

 

[GoldRanger]

So via their woke virtue signalling they got themselves under fire from all sides?

That's what happens when you make an orbital insertion into the most contentious conflict in the world.

 

[Marduk]

To recap, the distributor of Ben & Jerry's in Israel flat out refused to stop selling in the west bank until the contract runs out in ~18 months, Unilever, Ben & Jerry's parent company is pissed at them, and Israel's prime minister is putting pressure on the US to activate its anti BDS laws and smack B&J down.

Typical, for most of this and similar causes, the people pushing this are virtue signalling to their sociopolitical circles with nothing worse than political fallout that could possibly result out of it, and they do love being this kind of victims anyway, especially knowing the patreon money and media deals they will get to milk out of it it does happen.

In Israel, even though some certainly would feel like virtue signalling in the same, reality occasionally comes out to bite someone in the ass, it has rockets, knives and bullets for teeth, on top of that it tends to be kinda random and collectivist in its selection of victims, which can easily result in not only one's own completely unexpected demise, but also any number of other random people getting serious reasons to hate the virtue signaler.
As such, suddenly virtue signalling on this particular topic doesn't look like such a cool idea anymore.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball Team changed their name to the Cleveland Guardians, after those statues of the Guardians of Transportation they got outside of their stadium.

Cleveland Indians’ name change hailed by Native American groups

The name of the Cleveland Indians has been rooted in “racial oppression” for more than a century and the activists and academics who’ve spent decades fighting against it told The Post Friday it was…

nypost.com

The Cleveland Indians were known as such since 1915.

 

[GoldRanger]

More fallout from Ben&Jerry's stunt.

FL and TX Threaten Sanctions Against Ben & Jerry's Over Israel Boycott

Texas' comptroller encouraged people to buy Texas-made Blue Bell ice cream rather than "overpriced, stuck-up stuff made by a foreign-owned company started in Vermont."

www.newsweek.com

Texas and Florida are threatening to blacklist B&J.

Edit: And here's B&J's parent company stating their support for Israel.

Unilever CEO says fully committed to Israel amid Ben & Jerry's row

After Prime Minister Bennett warned multinational corporation of 'severe consequences,' Alan Jope says U.S. ice cream makers' decision to stop sales in the Palestinian territories was made independently

www.ynetnews.com

 

[Husky_Khan]

Tom Cotton skewering a Coca-Cola talking head to contrast his Corporations viewpoints in relation to Georgia compared to the Peoples Republic of China.

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Tom Cotton skewering a Coca-Cola talking head to contrast his Corporations viewpoints in relation to Georgia compared to the Peoples Republic of China.

Eh, I don't see what the CCP committing genocide has to do with a foreign soda company. The foreign soda company is so far removed from what's going on there that is seems unreasonable to expect them to sabatage themselves over something that they cannot change. Yeah, the genocide is wrong and should stop, but speaking up and getting yourself banned isn't going to change that. Every company could refuse to do business with China and it wouldn't change that.

There is more of a connection a chocolate company or a shirt company that relies on sweat shop, pseudo-slave labor, but then you start getting into the problem of "why are you focusing on this one company? Literally every single company is vaguely tied to some shady stuff and it's near impossible to get by without relying on them and (indirectly) helping perpetuate it.

 

[PsihoKekec]

I reckon he is focusing on this one company due to the tendency of this company to do the ''holier then thou'' act.

 

[Bassoe]

Boston Dynamics complains about customer who jokingly weaponized one of their drones. While receiving DARPA funding, what were they expecting their machines to be used for? Or are they just pissed because they don't want the public associating them with 'robot army' until it's much too late?

 

[Typhonis]

Boston Dynamics complains about customer who jokingly weaponized one of their drones. While receiving DARPA funding, what were they expecting their machines to be used for? Or are they just pissed because they don't want the public associating them with 'robot army' until it's much too late?

Option three. How dare this civilian hack make money off of a gun-toting robot. That's our money Daddy DARPA! How dare he eat a slice of our pie."

 

[Chaos Marine]

 

[GoldRanger]

Heartwarming to see all the overwhelmingly negative reactions (on the bastion of wokeness Twitter, no less). Maybe not all is lost.

 

[Husky_Khan]

I keep seeing this Nike ad playing for the Olympics so I had to look it up so I could trash it. Thankfully it was well trashed before I even got there.




Which of the claims/predictions in this ad is the most ridiculous?

 

[Husky_Khan]

I didn't think the Nike ads could get more cringe, but they went all the way into it with their new 'Dynasty' commercial about the US Womens National Basketball Team.



Learning about the classics and drama is just patriarchy. They make Alexander the Great look like Alexander the Okay.

US Womens Basketball Team, that's the truly greatest dynasty in history.

 

[GoldRanger]

I didn't think the Nike ads could get more cringe, but they went all the way into it with their new 'Dynasty' commercial about the US Womens National Basketball Team.



Learning about the classics and drama is just patriarchy. They make Alexander the Great look like Alexander the Okay.

US Womens Basketball Team, that's the truly greatest dynasty in history.

Mother of cringe...

 

[Bear Ribs]

So many flavors of cringe... I wasn't sure which thread to put it under.

 

[Abhishekm]

So many flavors of cringe... I wasn't sure which thread to put it under.

Hilarious but three of them look vaguely asian already though? They too used to Asain being that apu stereotype (personally still find the guy hilarious) to notice or just not care?

Like what they want a burka on the brown one, a chionsam on the brunette and a kimono on the guard?

 

[Bear Ribs]

Hilarious but three of them look vaguely again already though? They too used to Asain being that apu stereotype (personally still find the guy hilarious) to notice or just not care?

Like what they want a burka on the brown one, a chionsam on the brunette and a kimono on the guard?

From what Mattel said, the one with the Skateboard was supposed to be Asian but that doesn't pass the sniff test to me. She has the palest skin of all of them rather than mid-tone skin, auburn hair isn't typically associated with Asians, nor am I aware of skateboards having any Asian associations (Though I could be wrong there). I thought she was supposed to be Irish at first glance due to the very pale skin and reddish hair.