Posted on 08/05/2019 7:50:42 AM PDT by Salman
(Bloomberg) -- Coca-Cola Co.’s billboards depicting heterosexual and same-sex couples were greeted by a wave of vitriol in Hungary, touching on a theme which conservative governments in the east of the European Union have increasingly focused on.
The pictures feature couples with the hashtag #loveislove, timed for Budapest’s popular Sziget Festival, a week-long music event that carries the theme of “Love Revolution” this year.
News websites close to the ruling Fidesz party, including PestiSracok and 888.hu, attacked the Coca-Cola campaign saying it promotes same-sex love over heterosexuality. Fidesz lawmaker Istvan Boldog called for a boycott of Coke products in a Facebook post, while an anti-abortion group gathered about 25,000 signatures for its online petition to remove the billboards.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s cabinet has been promoting what he calls “illiberal values,” focused on the traditional family model. Citing a need to bolster the country’s faltering demographics, authorities have also kept a ban on marriage or adoption by same-sex couples.
Laszlo Kover, the firebrand speaker of parliament, went as far as telling an election forum in May that “decent” gay people should try to “adapt to the world” by not regarding themselves equals with the rest of the society, news website Index reported.
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From a completely amoral point of view, this may be a winner.
What does Gillette have to say about this?
Gillette sure thought so. But at least the CEO was honest about being willing to p*** off lots off customers to demonstrate his wokeness.
Companies stopped making Ads to sell to White Straight people long ago . Their biggest customers now are Mixed Couples and the Insane
Hungarian are lucky they don’t live here - in the United States they’d be marked for FBI investigation for objecting...
and they didnt take them down?
If I were a country that was under propaganda attack against my values. I would remove it.
Yep. By making the push in a country known to be faggot-unfriendly but where losses would be minimal, they think they will earn the goodwill of faggots and virtue-signalers around the world. Apparently they haven’t learned the lesson from Gillette, or don’t care.
Gave up Coke long ago even before the slimy, despicable “woke” disaster. New Coke and all the following horrid swamp stuff turned me off from sweet drinks.
H*ll, beer appears to be more healthy for you anyway.
And any “woke” company looses my business (and virtually all of my close friends and associates). Heh, and as despicable as we are considered to be by progressives, ALL have far more demanding educations and professions than the silly little children criticizing us.
Soda is poison, whether it’s sugar or diet.
Hungary should kick them out of the country.
Nikon tried ‘homosexual marketing’ some years back by depicting black homosexual fathers with their “daughter” in an ad. That didn’t go anywhere and for various reasons they are now a fading company- thanks in part to Sony.
Looks like I chose the wrong decade to become incurably addicted to Diet Coke!
As much as I love the USA it is nice to know there is a country I might be able to move to if it keeps getting worse here.
That and Poland.
Unfortunately they can get away with it because white straight people still buy their crap.
Try Diet Dr. Pepper. I’ve never tried a soft drink that taste so much like the original.
Just sell the f*****g soda! I don’t stop the non-standard-reproducers from doing their thing, so stop aiming ads at me.
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