Posted on 07/23/2020 12:16:43 PM PDT by RightGeek
This weekends phony outrage at Trader Joe's proves how outlets like the New York Times use 'public pressure' to make companies and politicians do what they want.
Two weeks ago, a student started an unintentionally comical Change.org petition about popular grocery chain Trader Joe’s. It alleged that “the carefully crafted facade of your friendly neighborhood hipster grocery store belies a darker image; one that romanticizes imperialism; fetishizes native cultures, and casually misappropriates.”
The petition cites as evidence the stores product names, which include ‘Trader Giotto,’ ‘Trader Ming,’ and ‘Trader Joe San’ for Italian, Chinese, and Japanese foods, respectively. It demanded an immediate end to all such jokes in their branding.
As might be expected, the petition did not take off. After two weeks up, the complaint had mustered less than a third of its 5,000-signature goal. For anyone familiar with the easy-to-spread design of Change.org, which collects more than 600,000,000 signatures a year, this is hardly a success story of online activism.
Nonetheless, The New York Times decided on Sunday that this petition was front page news.
“Petition Urges Trader Joe’s to Get Rid of ‘Racist Branding’” was sent out to the outlet’s 5 million subscribers, delivering instant legitimacy and coverage to what had been for weeks a niche, unsuccessful activist cause.
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The story was then swiftly written up by numerous outlets, including CNN with its 200 million unique monthly visitors. Unsurprisingly, upon being called racist by some of the most powerful media outlets in the country, Trader Joe’s panicked. It apologized and claimed it will remove the “light-hearted attempt at inclusiveness.”
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The “high school girl” who created the petition may not even exist.
She has a facebook and twitter account each of which dates to early July (same as the petition) and have only been used to promote the petition.
On Facebook she had 1 friend and on twitter she had 28 followers.
All very suspect.
>>Trader Joe’s panicked. It apologized and claimed it will remove the “light-hearted attempt at inclusiveness.”
“She” also targeted the Hawaiian shirts and the word “Trader” in the name.
She attacked their entire business model and sales pitch
Trader Joe’s should have just ignored the failed petition and the increasingly BOGUS “New York Times”!!!!
PHOOEY!!!!
Everyone knows when you pull the race, sex, or religion card you have to back down, apologize, and give them money.
Don’t rule out the possibility of Trader Joe’s insiders being sympathetic, or even complicit in this endeavor
Some people are so stupid they will sign a petition to bring back the dodo bird. See Mark Dice’s videos where he asks idiots on the street to sign petitions.
Would not be surprised that a store that caters to hipsters would have a lot of woke employees.
There’s a lesson for us here.
During the cultural revolution, photographer Li Zhensheng was accused of being insufficiently communist and was banished to a work camp. Two years later, he returned to his newspaper and put up a huge banner saying “The management of this newspaper has betrayed the revolution” and the crowd turned on them, hounded them out and he got his job back.
That is a true story.
http://red-colornewssoldier.com/
Let’s let a million change.org petitions bloom. Woodrow Wilson was the first. Margaret Sanger. John Muir. Next up Jack Kerouac.
The beating heart of Wilsonian progressivism is racist and eugenic. Let’s expose it and get their own red guards to drive a stake through it.
Start you petition at change.org today.
Where I come from, Trader Joe’s caters to the greater neighborhood, not necessarily hipsters. And I don’t remember seeing any blacks in my neighborhood Trader Joe’s. So (even though many employees look “hipster”), they can’t be too “woke”, even if they think they are.
No matter where one sees oneself in the political and cultural spectrum, it’s time to STAND UP to busybodies who harass us with stupid petitions and other media to change things that have worked for decades or even centuries!! PHOOEY!!!!
Virtually all social media movements are phony. There are Black PR firms who will invent thousands of non-existent online persons to cow companies and individuals into submission. I was involved in defending companies for this a few years back. We discovered that one particular company that had gotten 200 irate attackers on facebook had actually been the subject of 3 people who set up phony accounts and pretended to be these 200 people. One of the attackers was homeless and using a public library computer, lol.
Companies are foolish to pay attention to the webverse. Many companies have developed products specifically based on web demands and the usual result is a complete loss of the $ expended in development and marketing.
Many websites write bots to hit the ads on their own sites. The estimate was that 60%+ of web hits are bots. They write glowing “feedback” of their own products.
Maybe someday these corporations will wake up. I doubt it though. Only a fool takes any of these web movements seriously. What is needed is web ex-lax. Most of it is simply fraudulent.
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