Posted on 03/01/2021 10:30:09 AM PST by Kaslin
The Hyatt brand of hotels is the latest victim of a boycott campaign from leftist activists upset conservative leaders have a place to share their ideas.
This past weekend, the Conservative Political Action Conference came to Orlando, Florida — a state still open during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the venue, CPAC organizers chose the Hyatt Regency, which saw speeches from President Donald Trump, Senators Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley, and Reps. Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz among others.
According to Leftist Twitter, the Hyatt also hosted Nazis. But if that was the ostensible goal of CPAC, boy did it fail.
Bad faith Twitter activists like Morgan J. Freeman, a filmmaker, claimed the stage at CPAC was purposefully “designed to be a rune used by the Nazis.” Long-forgotten actress Lea Thompson amplified the smear, declaring “we need to stop them.”
Hyatt and Nazi are trending at the same time because they are hosting a group of White Supremacists whose stage is an actual Nazi logo.
Guess you did Nazi that coming, did you @Hyatt? pic.twitter.com/9TPkc94F9K
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) February 27, 2021
Wait, so does @Hyatt support Nazi rallies in their hotels?
— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) February 27, 2021
Soon, various Twitter hashtags trended like #CPACNazi, #HyattLovesNazis, and #HyattHitler.
We’ve seen this script before. Soon, Twitter activists announced they’d boycott a hotel they likely never patronized to begin with.
Sari Beth Rosenberg, a history teacher and host of the PBS NewsHour Extra Teacher Zoom Series, tweeted a boycott threat. “Are you okay with Nazi symbols being used on your properties?” she disingenuously asked. “Because if you fail to speak out & do something about this immediately, I’ll be sure to no longer patronize any of your properties ever again.”
Hey Hyatt hotels. Highly inclusive ,does not mean hosting people who are NOT highly inclusive ,hosting a fascist Nazi convention is the antithesis of inclusiveness .you have made a grave error in judgement .the imminent Boycotts you are going to feel for years to come.
— ✌🏼rosanna arquette (@RoArquette) February 28, 2021
It’s wild to me that I have more followers on Twitter than @Hyatt. That said, I intend to use this platform that I owe to every single one of my followers to be YOUR humble servant and thoroughly crush Hyatt for hosting QPAC and normalizing fascism! Boycott Hyatt!!!
— Ben Meiselas (@meiselasb) February 28, 2021
I’ve spent the last three days at CPAC. For a conference full of Nazis, there sure were a lot of Jewish events and Orthodox Jews in attendance at CPAC. There were five Jewish prayer services and one dinner event. Young Jewish Conservatives hosted a well-attended Shabbat dinner. Groups of Orthodox Jews walked from booth to booth learning more about how they can help the conservative cause.
That Leftist Twitter saw a Nazi symbol when actual Jews at this event did not, is especially telling. It’s safer at CPAC for Jews than liberal Brooklyn, New York where you risk random assaults for wearing a yarmulke and Tzitzit — assaults completely ignored by the same people clutching pearls over a stage design.
As a Jew, I find it disgusting when our history is exploited by deceitful partisans who use anything they can to silence their political opponents. In truth, they are what can be called the “professionally aggrieved” — always looking to feign offense and for new ways to use that offense to bludgeon their political opponents.
Hyatt swiftly and effectively responded to the critics.“We take pride in operating a highly inclusive environment and we believe that the facilitation of gatherings is a central element of what we do as a hospitality company,” a spokesperson said in a statement to Fox Business.
Indeed, Hyatt did what every brand must do to survive the cancel mob: push back.
Many brands are too cowardly to stand up to Twitter activists, with marketing consultants believing that the bad press will cripple their business. They seem to think that giving in means the controversy will go away. That position is foolish, however. Give in, and all you ensure is that the recalcitrant mob keeps coming back to fulfill their insatiable ideological bloodlust.
Cancel culture is a scourge on society; a lazy way to win arguments. But if they bully their opposition into silence, have they truly won the argument? No. They used tweet-brute-force to ensure they would never be challenged.
And it would be very easy to challenge the left, especially on their ephemeral concern for Jews. If they held a Democrat equivalent of CPAC, there would be work sessions declaring Israel an apartheid state and a defense of Hamas and the Boycott Defense Sanction movement. You couldn’t hold a Shabbat dinner — it would be criticized as not inclusive enough.
Could you imagine the booths at that event? Framed maps of Israel with a post-it note covering Israel. Act fast before the limited edition prints signed by The Squad sell out! Masks? They’d be covered with a #FreePalestine message.
If these activists truly cared about Jews or understood history, they’d stop using Jewish tragedy for political gain. Instead, they’d spend more time pushing back at the anti-Semitic forces within the radical leftward movement of their party.
But instead, they signal their virtue to avoid arguing their ideas. They’ll call opponents Nazis rather than go head-to-head on policy. They’ll see Nazi symbolism, instead of seeing their own double standards and intolerance.
The best way to ensure these tactics stop working is to not let them work. Hyatt offered a good example of what to do when faced with the cancel culture mob: don’t give in and call it out.
“Nazi Flag had a Swastika in a Circle, therefore circles are Nazi Symbols.”
Yes. Leftists are schizophrenic.
One of my quilt samplers has block from probably the 1800s. It could look like a swastika — and maybe it does. Some have done double takes. It stays on my wall. If idiots don’t understand context, and are easily triggered, then they’re ... well ... idiots.
I remember about 25 years ago in a Chinese supermarket seeing a box of rice with a big swastika on it.
It means it’s what we call vegan, it’s ok for Buddhists adhering to certain dietary rules to eat.
It was disconcerting the first time I saw it.
A rune was a meme before memetics.
There is no real white supremacy in any significant way, so the Left has to make it up.
Indeed the left didn’t notice that the democrat debates didn’t have any American flags and all the stands looked like check points to the camp.
Time for another conservative buycott. So many other hotel chains are cowards, so let’s support one that isn’t.
Those lefties know a hell of a lot more about nazi symbols than I do. Hmmmm
Oh, so that’s what the hysterical babbling is all about. A rune. Remember, these are people who insist that the OK sign is really a white power symbol even after they found out they got punked on 4chan.
You are all too quick to dismiss this.
I believe it was intentional.
Not by CPAC or the American Conservative Union, but by the “person” or “group” that came up with the design.
If YOU drew up a layout for a stage and it “just ended up” to be in the shape of a “Swastika”, you wouldn’t NOTICE?
They didn’t grab some homeless guy off the street or some Freeper to design the stage. (Not to compare Freepers with homeless people or insinuate that they aren’t intelligent or educated)
It was an intelligent, educated professional designer/artist or group of such people. They didn’t NOTICE (or plan) that their design was a symbol sometimes associated with NAZIS?
C’mon man, hold my beer.
The left seems to believe the only way they can get complete power like they want is to demonize their political opponents in ridiculous ways and to fearmonger among their supporters to such an extreme that they will believe literally anything. The left is aided in this by being the philosophy of group think.
Never answer rhetoric with dialectics.
They KNOW it wasn’t a Nazi symbol. By arguing to prove something they already know, you look like a fool.
Come on. This isn’t a swastika. This is some obscure rune that one specific little obscure group of SS soldiers used, not even a general SS symbol much less a general Nazi symbol. Until the mindless Twitter leftists went crazy with their slanders, who the heck had ever heard of it? I know a lot about WWII and had never come across it before.
That wasn’t crazy or anything. 🙄
I’m waiting for the announcement that the convention site designers are minority trans women (men?).
Yeah, because no one would ever accidentally build a Nazi symbol.
Oh, wait
And this is on a navy base.
Not me. I don't recall ever seeing one until today!
7th Waffen-SS Volunteer Mountain Division, “Prinz Eugen.”
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