Posted on 04/06/2023 7:00:07 PM PDT by Morgana
First, it was Hershey's, then it was Bud Light, and now, Jack Daniel's is the latest brand this year to be facing a boycott over claims the company has "gone woke."
Social media users have taken offense to the whiskey brewer's "small town, big pride" campaign in which it teamed up with drag queens from Ru Paul's Drag Race—despite the campaign being nearly two years old.
The row over LGBTQ+ brand ambassadors is symbolic of a wider debate about drag shows and their exposure to children. Critics have expressed concerns over Drag Queen Story Hour, readings for children by drag performers at libraries. Tennessee, Jack Daniel's home state, was the first to pass a drag show ban in the presence of children over concerns about their sexualized content. The law has since been temporarily blocked by a federal judge.
Jack Daniels said in June 2021 that it had teamed up with three drag queens from the hit TV show to produce a series of videos called Drag Queen Summer Glamp, which was released during pride month. It features the participants completing challenges around the company's Lynchburg, Tennessee, distillery.
The whiskey makers said at the time that it was "a bold new experience—for both the queens and their hosts," while Lauren Richmond, then-brand manager for Jack Daniel's Tennessee Fire, noted the campaign "reaffirms our commitment to the LGBTQ+ community" despite being an "unexpected partnership."
"Jack Daniel's gets drag culture—which is all about celebrating individuality and inviting others to accept you as you are," Trinity the Tuck, one of the drag queens involved in the campaign, said in a statement.
"This is how Pride should be celebrated: with friends—new and old—in a place you would never expect," said Manila Luzon, another participant.
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How fagulent of them.
I guess we’re going to have to start referring to Jack Daniels as “tranny fluid”.
I worry about the many civilized and dignified ‘gay’ people in the world - I’ve known a lot of them, and I think most of them ARE civilized and dignified.
They must be watching all of this with great embarrassment, as well as trepidation.
Maker’s Mark.
Wven Jim Beam.
Not a bother to me.
I won’t drink any hard liquor.
Rellic+hard Liquor = jail.
My tolerance for Democrats
drops dramatically
If I drink hard liquor.
I presume cops, AA, and LGBT...XXXX
are all Democrats.
Thought the comment that queers have more money than straight people was funny.
Once you go down the rabbit hole, you’ll find many of these brands are all owned by large multinationals, all with trannies and rainbow flags on their corporate webpages.
The least-offensive one I could find was Heaven Hill, the family-owned, Kentucky-based company that makes Evan Williams (among other brands). An “Environmental Sustainability” commitment but nothing more. No pledges for diversity and inclusion. No rainbow flags. No trannies.
I like Evan Williams 1783 whiskey. I’ll keep drinking it. Even their house brand is pretty good.
If Seagram’s gin or Popov Vodka starts doing crap with trannies it will affect me as much as jack daniels.
Who drinks that crap and Bud too?
What is amazing is that why companies aren’t clueing in that if they go woke, they go broke. There are plenty of examples ahead of them.
They are setting themselves up for class action lawsuits.
LOL, I don’t think you have to worry about Russian Vodka companies going “Woke”.
Jack was for High School chugging.
Always tasted like boiled shiiite.
Single Malt, Macallen if you have it.
Glenfiddich as needed.
Jack can have the tranny’s.
That's a very ominous post you just made. They've worked very hard for years at diminishing and demonizing men, now they're doing the same thing to women and children.
This is evil, and it's global.
There’s a few women speaking out, an interesting partnership of conservative Christian women and feminists who both see the evil travesty going on and are speaking out and the terrible harm being done. Of course they are being slammed and canceled viciously.
I’m an Evan Williams fan too. I don’t like whiskey by itself, but I love to mix it with Coke, ginger ale, or even root beer.
Lots of good Whisky out there, too.
(Scot by ancestry, here..)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky#Scotch
There are Lesbians who don’t like it, too.
Matt Walsh has an excellent video and “solution”!
18 min video is excellent
Skip to 14 min for “solution”
Brew your own. Can be done in a modified pressure cooker.
Videos on youtube if you care.
Just dont drink the devils cut.
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