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.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
If you had followed my posts on this thread, I think you would see that we mostly agree.
Again: I don’t care what people do in bed. As long as it involves consenting adults and isn’t preying on children or innocent animals, I just don’t want to know about it. I don’t approve of gay or trans people getting in others’ faces about their personal sexuality, or exposing their predilections to children.
As the old English lady intimated, I don’t care what these people do, as long as they don’t do it in the street and frighten the horses.
Problem is these people are getting too much influence over our society.
Well, I guess people can do whatever they want to do, within the law.
(That includes the ones promoting all of this ‘sex stuff’, the ones going along with it, and those who want to somehow stop it. But how do you suppose we stop it? Do you want to outlaw freedom of speech, outlaw demonstrations, etc.?)
I think this all starts with parents. Too many parents in recent decades have been inattentive. They’ve trusted the public education system, because it was easy - and in past decades, it was relatively benign. But things have changed, and parents need to recognize that and become more involved.
Actually taking control of your child’s education and the influences the child is exposed to is difficult - and can be very expensive. A lot of parents have been lazy, and wanted a huge television set, fancy clothes, etc., more than they were concerned about their children’s educations.
This isn’t just a problem of outside influences. There’s the matter of personal responsibility.
When they are walking down main st naked, leading small children and wildly simulating sex and being cheered, we are there, wherever there is. Paraphrasing another article, on Rome and Christianity this AM We must obey God, rather than men. Confrontation is inevitable.
The only good queer is a dead queer
The only good dyke is a dead dyke
There are no good perverted transvestites, live or dead
Jeez. You’re full of anger instead of sense, aren’t you?
Yes, well - I think we’ve already covered the fact that they’re ‘doing it in the streets’.
YOU can confront them, if that’s what you think your ‘God’ tells you to do. Let us know how that goes...
MAGA
I have no idea how that pertains to the issue we’ve discussed.
I very much doubt that Trump would ever say what you stated in your post 105. Trump isn’t the idiot that you appear to be.
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