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Jack Daniels Faces Boycott Calls Over LGBT Campaign: 'Lost a Loyal Drinker'
Newsweekhttps://www.newsweek.com/jack-daniels-whiskey-boycott-calls-lgbt-campaign-1792890 ^ | April 6, 2023

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
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To: Agatsu77
Jack daniels tastes like water that was used to put out a campfire. Yuck!

If you're gonna drink, at least drink something good. And no I dont suggest any good whiskeys.

I only keep it around to clear up sore throats and head colds. Usually Smokey Mountain caramel, It goes good with a hot cup of coffee.

81 posted on 04/07/2023 12:51:01 AM PDT by Ikeon (I miss the days, when making friends, you could ask you new best buddy " what church do you go to?" )
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To: hoagy62
guess we’re going to have to start referring to Jack Daniels as “tranny fluid”

Good one

82 posted on 04/07/2023 12:57:58 AM PDT by FatherofFive (I support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: Jamestown1630

Never could stand Jack Daniels, even before the tranny crap. Just goes to show you how low some will go.
You want a really good sour mash bourbon? Try Evan Williams Bottled in Bond 100 proof by Heaven Hill. You won’t miss JD at all.
I guess a lot of people invested in all sorts of JD mark accesories may be put out by the tranny advertising antics. I would be, if I had. But, I didn’t cause I can’t stand the bilgewater. Flame away while I poor myself another Evan Williams, or maybe a Duff Town Singleton.


83 posted on 04/07/2023 1:26:36 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: Hiddigeigei

Jim Beam and Wild Turkey and occasionally Four Roses for victory years... GF had Jack Daniels at a party once, pee’d her britches, no JD in house since then lol


84 posted on 04/07/2023 1:56:50 AM PDT by SandwicheGuy ("Man is the only pack animal that will follow an unstable leader." Cesar Chavetz)
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To: JennysCool

Because these women went full retard.


85 posted on 04/07/2023 2:55:08 AM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Bob434

Rock drinks Jim Beam anyway. Saw it on Woodstock 99.


86 posted on 04/07/2023 2:56:31 AM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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To: Cobra64

And out of those 7%, I doubt any of them even drink Jack Daniel’s. Makes no sense. They are going to piss off the 93% that drink their product to appease the 7% that don’t and WON’T drink their product.


87 posted on 04/07/2023 3:32:21 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Morgana

Hard to believe these companies thinks this is a smart thing to do business wise.

WTF are they thinking.


88 posted on 04/07/2023 3:49:49 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: who knows what evil?

“Satan LOVES pride...so much so; it got him kicked out of Heaven“

THAT is a great line!


89 posted on 04/07/2023 4:40:30 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Wild Turkey 101 or Jim Beam Black are better.


90 posted on 04/07/2023 4:42:59 AM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Dignified? Not if you think about what they do. You gotta be kidding.


91 posted on 04/07/2023 4:46:48 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Morgana

Oh good grief! 😣


92 posted on 04/07/2023 6:27:46 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: quantim; Morgana

“Heck, Gilette has them beat by years.”

I believe J.C. Penny was actually the first (or one of the first) major brands to jump into homosexual marketing. It hurt them pretty bad, but it didn’t kill them. They’re still around.


93 posted on 04/07/2023 7:14:00 AM PDT by suthener
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To: suthener

they are still around but who buys from them?


94 posted on 04/07/2023 8:25:34 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: Morgana
Customer: "Bartender, I'll have a shot of Jack and a Bud Light chaser."

Bartender: "We don't serve your kind here."

95 posted on 04/07/2023 8:28:43 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Morgana

“they are still around but who buys from them?”

Well, apparently enough to keep them from completely going out of business. As far as I can tell the local mall store is still in business.


96 posted on 04/07/2023 9:07:13 AM PDT by suthener
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To: Agatsu77

George Dickel is another Tennessee sour mash whiskey.


97 posted on 04/07/2023 9:14:51 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (To the barricades !!!)
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To: Blue Highway

Exactly.


98 posted on 04/07/2023 9:15:40 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: TalBlack

I was speaking to the way that people conduct themselves in public.

I don’t care what people do in bed, as long as all parties are consenting and of majority age.I don’t need or want to know about it. It seems to me that keeping certain things private IS a matter of dignity.

How do I know that YOU are ‘dignified’, and that everything you’ve done sexually has been dignified? Even many straight people have some practices that many others would find ‘weird’.

I just don’t want to know about what other adults do in the privacy of their bedrooms, whether they are ‘straight’ or ‘gay’, or from Mars. If they just leave me alone, I’ll leave them alone.

I don’t advertise my predilections, and I don’t want to hear about anyone else’s.

I especially don’t want kids exposed to sexual stuff when they are still too young to understand anything at all about sex in the first place.


99 posted on 04/07/2023 7:42:57 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

“I was speaking to the way that people conduct themselves in public.“

Yeah so was I. We are no longer in the world of the past where what people did behind closed doors was anyone else’s business. No one wants to live in an America where everyone is dragged kicking and screaming to Jesus. Jesus doesn’t want an America where everyone is dragged kicking and screaming to Him

Go to a few pride parades and see what they do in public. In front of their children natural as well as adopted. Last one I saw centered two huge fat hairy men naked but for leather jockstraps leading multiple toddlers down the center of Main street at what looked like high noon.

I grew up on the south shore of Long Island adjacent to a huge gay playground. Most normals had a live and let live attitude but that didn’t stop us from hearing and seeing what was considered ok among these “summer revelers”. That coupled with clinical descriptions of what they do with one another is disgusting to a degree that thwarts language. There isn’t an ounce of dignity in that lifestyle.

Yeah for most of us our public look or image is a bit of an affectation and we’ve all had the odd thought that would shame hell but deviance is t static it is a progression that never stops unless repudiated. They are now dragging us kicking and screaming into their world. If you haven’t seen what their world looks like you will whether you like it or not. How you missed it thus far I don’t know.


100 posted on 04/08/2023 7:54:13 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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