Posted on 05/31/2023 6:47:29 PM PDT by Rummyfan
A headline in New York magazine laments, “Bud Light, Target, and a New Era of Corporate Caution.”
A new era of corporate caution? Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Imagine a beer company that just wanted to make good beer and sell it to you. Imagine if that company wanted to sell beer to everyone but didn’t feel that its job was to make you more accepting of transgender individuals, any more than it felt its job was to warn you about the national debt or teach you the value of standardized testing in public schools or warn you about North Korea’s intercontinental-missile program. Imagine a beer company that liked its existing customer base and didn’t feel a need to reeducate those customers and get them to give up their “fratty, kind of out-of-touch humor.”
Imagine an everything store like Target that wanted everyone to shop there, but that had the good sense to realize that partnering with a brand that had “Satanist-inspired merchandise” was not the way to win over shoppers in a country that is still roughly two-thirds Christian. (Also note that almost every faith has a devil figure, so there’s no reason to think non-Christian religious customers are big fans of Satanic branding, either.) You want to put rainbows and “PRIDE” on your merchandise, go right ahead. It’s a free country. But if you partner up with a “Satan Respects Pronouns”* designer, don’t be shocked when lots of people choose to shop elsewhere.
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Problem: There is no longer a shared culture. Our society is so fractured that pleasing everyone is impossible.
Probably toilet paper will be the only “safe” and perennial item left.
My local beer microbrew companies don’t feel the need to wade into ‘thocial ithues’ and I buy most of my beer from them.
The Country could easily survive the downfall of every Woke corporation — it would a be blessing.
Every corporation is woke.
ESG scores trump company profits.
They think they can displease us and get away with it - because they always have. InBev probably wonders why everybody is suddenly picking on them. :)
“There is no longer a shared culture. Our society is so fractured that pleasing everyone is impossible.”
Here is my recollection of the first foreshadowing of this.
Back in the day, say late 60s-70s, when you’d be on the beach, everyone would be playing the same top 40 station. In NYC I guess it would be CBS 101.1 or maybe it was WPLG, of WNEW. I don’t remember exactly, and perhaps the lead station changed over the years. But it was true. Everyone would be listening to it. And you’d walk along from blanket to blanket and the music would rise and fall in volume (not every single person would have a radio of course), it was truly in concert.
Then later, everyone would have a different station on. Some with the same old, some rap, some new country, etc. And it was cacophony, no matter how much one might like one or another song, or style, or station.
Think that was kind of the beginning of the end. And that was no fascist or commie or right-wing plot, that was just life, choices people made, as our nation started to splinter.
We went from The Melting Pot to Balkanization.
MoochPooch... I think you are on to it... Our enemies are sending suicide bombers into our corporations to destroy American identity... People tend to discount culture wars, but the thing is if you can destroy an nation’s culture, you have destroyed its identity...and the nation itself.
And then moved right on to the Tower of Babel v2.0.
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Tolerance is one thing. Coming for the kids means war.
I’m boycotting all things gay for the month of June.
If I see a rainbow display, I’m gone. No dollars for you!
The real problem is falling for InBev’s public theater performance.
It’s the oldest story in Conglomerates.
Buy up labels, put cheapened and flimsy, mass-produced product into subsidiary labels and sell it to the unsuspecting consumers of the label, aka Chumps. As people start to reject the trashy new product create a controversy to deflect blame and cover your tracks for poor, cheap management and brand destruction.
Yeah, it’s not InBev buying up labels and putting really crappy product in them, it’s those Conservative Haters hating on their brands just for supporting peoples sexual orientation and stuff.
Take note of all InBev beverages. They will all eventually be filled with bud/bud light.
On purpose and by design.
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