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Ben & Jerry's customers call for boycott after woke ice cream maker's July 4th message demanding the US return 'stolen indigenous land' starting with Mount Rushmore to the Lakota
The Daily Mail ^ | 05 Jul 2023 | Stephen M. Lepore

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: benjerrys; july4th; tweet
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To: MinorityRepublican

I think that all of Ben & Jerry’s property be returned to the indians. Lead the way Ben & Jerry!!


81 posted on 07/05/2023 8:55:52 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Campion
My money would have been on the Muslims; unlike the Chinese, they had an imperative to go out and convert the heathen to Islam.

Depends on the state of Islam during the time period. Are we talking about a bunch of Wahabbists? Then you wouldn't see any kind of scientific advancements. The Chinese would have been more likely to pursue technology.

82 posted on 07/05/2023 8:57:30 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
B&J's actual message:

"Hey! Don't forget about us! We're important, too! We're as woke as woke can be! Look at us!

83 posted on 07/05/2023 9:00:04 AM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Hitler confided to Albert Speer that he had wished Islam had taken over Europe, because if the Germanic people had adapted Mohammedism, they would have conquered the world, as oppposed to “flabby” Christianity.

Of course Islam had a lot in common with ancient Nordic Pagan beliefs, that the soldier who falls in battle would go to “Paradise”.


84 posted on 07/05/2023 9:01:45 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

... And which other indigenous tribe did the Lakota conquer and take the land from? Why not give it back to them? Or the older tribes before them?


85 posted on 07/05/2023 9:11:23 AM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: Beowulf9

Thanks! A blast from my past.


86 posted on 07/05/2023 9:14:14 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Leftists have always had a bento box mentality.


87 posted on 07/05/2023 9:26:23 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: MinorityRepublican

How can I boycott Ben and Jerk*ff’s? I’ve never eaten that overpriced frozen slop to begin with.


88 posted on 07/05/2023 10:21:25 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (81 million votes my ass!)
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To: cnsmom
I prefer Häagen-Dazs anyway and many other brands.

I walk past the B & J ice cream to head straight to the Häagen-Dazs ice cream every time I’m at the store.

89 posted on 07/05/2023 10:31:19 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: MinorityRepublican

Wahhabism started in (what is now called) Saudi Arabia in the mid-18th century. I’m talking about 150-200 years before that time, and the Muslims I’m thinking of are Turks or Moors (or both), not Saudis.


90 posted on 07/05/2023 10:56:51 AM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: Candor7

tenants = people who rent a property

tenets = principles of belief in a faith or ideology


91 posted on 07/05/2023 11:41:54 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: MayflowerMadam
What took the customers so long? Many of us boycotted Ben and Jerry’s decades ago because of their insane liberalism.

I know, right? I gave them up, including the most delicious Cherry Garcia pints, back in the early 90s.

92 posted on 07/05/2023 11:44:05 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: Eleutheria5; Candor7
Jewishness...is always latent, ... whether expressed or not.

But it matters. You are now Orthodox. If one of your daughters marries an observant Jew, and the other marries a secular liberal Jew, and both of them have children, do you not rejoice over the children raised to know Judaism, and worry about the children raised with progressive rebellion against G-d and hatred of fellow Americans? Belief is what separates them.

93 posted on 07/05/2023 11:49:22 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: mewzilla
B&J’s is owned by Unilever.

Unilever bought the company in 2000, after it was independent 22 years. Ben and Jerry are still employees of the company, thought not in charge.

94 posted on 07/05/2023 11:59:59 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: cnsmom

Like B&J, Häagen-Dazs was founded by two Jewish people, but they are explicitly Zionist.


95 posted on 07/05/2023 12:02:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: cnsmom

Ben & Jerry’s was forced to take “natural” off their label, because they use high fructose corn syrup, and other ingredients. But you might want to check the Häagen-Dazs label too.


96 posted on 07/05/2023 12:03:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Albion Wilde

Belief separates them. Jewishness does not. That remains a fact, whether practiced or not.


97 posted on 07/05/2023 12:03:50 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: nickcarraway

The Canadian stuff doesn’t, but we often get sugar rather than corn syrup
https://www.haagen-dazs.ca/en/haagen-dazs/chocolate-ice-cream


98 posted on 07/05/2023 12:06:16 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Reverend Wright; nickcarraway

looks like the USA H-D is also corn free
https://www.icecream.com/us/en/brands/haagen-dazs/products/chocolate-ice-cream


99 posted on 07/05/2023 12:08:19 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Bookshelf

Babylonian Talmud, Kidushin 68B, “Rabbi Yochanan said in the name of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, scripture states, Deuteronomy 7, verse 3, et seq.: ‘you shall not marry them (the nations) and you shall not give youor daughter to his son nor take his daughter for your son, for he will cause your son to err from following Me, and they will serve other gods...’ your son from an Israelite is called ‘your son,’ but your son from a gentile is not called ‘your son’.”

Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 43B, “Even if he has sinned, he is still an Israelite.”


100 posted on 07/05/2023 2:54:18 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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