Posted on 07/04/2023 11:50:46 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Ice cream company Ben & Jerry's sparked outrage with a July 4th tweet calling for the United States to return 'stolen indigenous land' starting with giving Mount Rushmore back to the Lakota Sioux tribe.
The company, which was founded by longtime Bernie Sanders allies Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenwood but has since been sold to British multinational Unilever, tweeted the message to its 494,000 followers.
'This 4th of July, it's high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it,' the company's official account wrote.
Outrage was swift on social media following the tweet, with many disgusted by what they saw as anti-American sentiment on a day meant to celebrate the United States.
One commenter compared their statement to Bud Light partnering with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney - which saw the beer giant lose upwards of $20million in sales after causing massive controversy - and using the hashtag #boycottbenandjerrys.
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Has the ghost of Marlon Brando risen?
Aren’t Ben & Jerry’s mansions on stolen land? They should give up everything they own?
By the way, has anyone ever take a look at the ingredients on a pint of Ben & Jerry’s? Hippies? I think not for these purveyors of industrial chemicals.
Imagine if you will, that the black death had totally sterilized Europe around 1450, no survivors at all. What would have happened to the native Americans with their paleolithic technological base??
My version of an answer to that: It might have taken 100 - 150 more years, but sooner or later, some sort of a combined fleet of Ming/Mongol ships similar to the ships of Zheng Ho would have gotten to California with horses and squadrons of cavalry using Mongol tactics and those powerful composite bows, and capable of crossing North America West to East in about a month and inside of the first six months, they wouldhave had better maps of the Americas than any native group had.....
Another freeper mentioned how stolen isn’t the correct term. The land was conquered.
My thoughts - almost EVERY square inch on God’s green earth has been conquered at some point. Except for Antarctica I suppose - which was discovered and divided up peacefully.
So far.
Or...free ice cream forever.
For as long as I can remember, Ben & Jerry’s “brand” has been hippie leftism. As such, I’ve long avoided their frozen, sugary concoctions. Conversely, I’d imagine that most of their customers are on board with or indifferent to B and J’s brand of hate-America leftism. So this stunt likely won’t hurt them.
I prefer Häagen-Dazs anyway and many other brands.
Or what if the Moors still ruled over Spain. And the Brits were too busy fighting the French?
Maybe the Russians would have arrived. They had settlements in Alaska at the time.
BTTT
Ben and Jerry and others like them are causing major problems. Read this and see if you can figure out this can of worms they are opening:
“We are also proud Jews. It’s part of who we are and how we’ve identified ourselves for our whole lives. As our company began to expand internationally, Israel was one of our first overseas markets. We were then, and remain today, supporters of the State of Israel.”
Ben and Jerry: it’s our land, the area around Mt Rushmore to the Lakotas was theirs, it was stolen from us, they should get it back as we got Israel back.
This is where this will ultimately go.
It will divide both the left and the right as the left will say no to Israel getting and keeping all of Israel and they must return to the 1967 borders (or no further settlements), with the right saying no to that.
The right will say no to land these tribes lost going back to them and yes to land Jewish people’s lost going back to them and kept by them in full.
Then religion comes into play, native tribes will say the land was given by their gods, and on and on, the Torah will be cited.
I want a new timeline...
“We are also proud Jews”??????????????
My rear end (tachat).
[the Moors]
I’m sorry. The correct answer is “the Moops”
I honestly don’t know what they stand for or believe in.
One minute proud supporters of the state of Israel, the next not so much it seems.
In the end, the mindset of what belongs to whom and why (that they and others are advancing) concerning the land around Mt Rushmore, Lakotas, etc, will ultimately and divisively cut both ways.
Continued...
They are most likely just troublemakers.
It’s none of their business.
They are a British company.
So put a sock in it.
We’ve got a new King George now.
Ben & Jerry’s company is owned by Unilever.
“Ben and Jerry: it’s our land, the area around Mt Rushmore to the Lakotas was theirs, it was stolen from us, they should get it back as we got Israel back.”
By Ben and Jerry logic, Israel was “stolen land” twice, first by Joshua, and then again in 1948.
“We are also proud Jews. “
Every single time.
I cannot boycott them. I never bought their diabetes-fuel.
But if they are owned by Unilever now, that means I can boycott someone.
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