Posted on 04/27/2024 7:35:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Give Big Tobacco, as they used to call it, some credit.
The most demonized industry in the country decided to protect itself from a ban by wrapping itself in DEI.
As I documented in “Black Cigarettes Matter”, tobacco companies brought in Al Sharpton, George Floyd’s ghost, and BLM.
Sharpton’s National Action Network claimed that banning menthol cigarettes would hurt black people and issued a press release stating that it had reached this position after “working with Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner” and serial BLM litigator Ben Crump.
During a previous attempt by New York to ban menthols, Sharpton had been thrown into the fight alongside Garner’s mother and George Floyd’s brother.
Last year, ‘Mothers of the Movement’ a group that included Carr, along with “Philonise Floyd” (a brother, not a mother), and Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin’s mother, claimed that they had taken part in a panel at Sharpton’s NAA led by Crump and that banning menthol cigarettes was racist.
The old demonized companies remodeled and repainted their newly woke operations in rainbow colors and black power fists.
Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris, announced a $5 million donation to fight “systemic racism” during the BLM race riots and claims that “inclusion, Diversity and Equity (ID&E) is embedded into everything we do.” The Marlboro cigarette manufacter has racial quotas for its executives for not only blacks, gays and Hispanics, but also to have 2% representation for “two spirit” men and women: a form of transgender identity supposedly grounded in Indian lore.
RJ Reynolds claims that “DE&I is an important part of our ESG strategy” and boasts of being listed by the Human Rights Campaign as one of the best places for gay people to work.
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Democrats: “You only kill half of them with abortion. A nice chunk can be dealt with by encouraging them to shoot each other over petty disputes. But that is not enough! We can encourage them to get cancer by threatening their menthol cigarettes and then backing down on a ban. Then more of them will see that as a challenge directed at blacks and switch to menthol cigarettes or take up smoking in the first place. A bit slower than the other methods but effective in the long run.”
so it’s not a health issue, it’s a pandering to minorities for votes issue...
like he wouldn’t do it anyway if he steals the office again
But what is “sexual perversion?”
Seriously.
Today, at the same time we crush a general (Petreus) because he likes women and has an affair (example: https://abcnews.go.com/US/OTUS/generals-behaving-badly/story?id=17709524) we have the DoD giving people sex changes, housing to same sex couples, and when they screw around with multiple sexual partners at the same time and everyone knows, no one dares say anything. Military guys attending pride events wearing leather straps, having multiple sexual partners at the same time is OK, but if you like women that’s questionable.
Our societies definition of perversion and application of certain rules (like conduct unbecoming in the DoD) is highly dependent on what group we’re talking about.
I meant that homosexuality is abnormal and thus is a sexual perversion. Also, sex with children and/or animals is a sexual perversion. There are plenty of people who would marry their dogs if they could.
A male general having an affair with a woman is not sexual perversion, but I think it is a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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