ID: 214649 June 13, 2020, 3:58 a.m. No.9596304   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6320 >>6373

#12282 @300

>>9596137 HRC: 'I wanted to boil Bill in oil - but I've never regretted staying with him'

>>9596162 Occupy 2.0: Nashville Trying to Set Up the Next Radical Autonomous Zone

>>9596169 A New Silent Majority Is Coming (America in the Throes of a Nat'l Madness)

>>9596180 Three indicted on NYPD Molotov cocktail-throwing charge

>>9596181 Dispatch from 'CHAZ': Tweets call for guns, Gatorade and cigarettes

>>9596188, >>9596251 Black woman destroys white libs blocking her car (next bred title!)

>>9596204 Brands, shut up: Put an end to corporate BLM virtue signaling

>>9596233 Intel’s Jim Keller Leaves the Company for ‘Personal Reasons’

>>9596284 NYT publishes op-ed by a radical leftist terrorist supporter calling for abolishing prisions and police

ID: 214649 June 13, 2020, 4:04 a.m. No.9596328   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6335 >>6366 >>6588 >>6675 >>6729

>>9596204

ARTICLE

 

Brands, shut up: Put an end to corporate Black Lives Matter virtue signaling

by Brad Polumbo | June 13, 2020 06:00 AM

 

At this point, a broad consensus is forming among the public in support of criminal justice reform and in opposition to police brutality. Crucial policy reforms, from Democrats and Republicans alike, are making inroads in Congress.

 

But one of the most annoying trends emerging during the current moment is that of corporations and brands pushing surface-level and cringey #BlackLivesMatter messages. The intentions aren’t as altruistic as boardroom executives would like you to believe, and if anything, their rhetoric is more divisive than helpful.

 

Consider the examples offered by Netflix and HBO.

 

On social media, HBO changed the name of its Twitter account to #BlackLivesMatter and shared a quote from James Baldwin: “Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.” But HBO didn’t actually take any serious action to support reform or donate a dime to legitimate pro-reform causes. Instead, it just put out some pandering tweets and removed a classic film from its streaming services, Gone with the Wind, that’s no longer considered woke enough. Evidently, the company thinks people are too stupid to think critically about the movie’s questionable racial message for themselves.

 

Meanwhile, Netflix tweeted that “to be silent is to be complicit…Black lives matter.” Here, the corporation is seemingly shaming anyone who doesn’t send out woke tweets as “complicit,” but it hasn’t actually donated a dime to support reform. (The CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings, did donate $1 million in his personal capacity to a police reform group. He is worth $5.24 billion.)

 

Nike has long faced criticism for poor labor conditions in its factories based in developing countries. Still, the company responded to the current moment by posting an emotional video on Instagram, calling on people to “be the change” and “stop turning their backs” on the issue of racial inequity.

 

Not to be out-woked, rival company Adidas retweeted Nike and said, “Together is how we make change.” Note that the company is saying that all it takes to pursue change is sharing a feel-good video that makes no mention of any actual reforms and simply guilt trips the audience.

 

Truly stunning and brave.

 

These are some of the biggest examples, but hundreds of brands, far too many to list in one article, have joined the pandering parade of loudly enlightened corporate voices.

 

In turn, many people are annoyed that they can’t even take a break from the toxicity and chaos of the political moment to watch Netflix or shop for shoes without brands thrusting their woke messaging at them. It’s often coming from companies who aren’t actually doing very much to help the issue.

 

Consumers are encountering a never-ending parade of virtue signaling from companies that literally have no involvement with criminal justice or politics at all. Did we really need to hear that #BlackLivesMatter from the candy company Gushers? It’s not hard to imagine a world where companies don’t engage in issues of the day outside of their actual industry.

 

Frankly, much of this seems like companies cynically attempting to cash in and build consumer loyalty to their brand by going with the consensus movement of the day, not some authentic stand for justice and equality.

 

University of Pennsylvania marketing professor Americus Reed explained to the New York Times that what we’re witnessing is “values and identity-driven targeted marketing,” where “[companies are] taking a stand, hopefully, because it’s moral but also because they understand the long-term economic game.”

 

Of course, fiscally speaking, this is what companies should do. It’s their responsibility to do what it takes to make a profit for their shareholders. But that doesn’t make it any less annoying from the consumer’s point of view.

 

Corporate virtue signaling, especially when it includes little substantive action, could be doing the criminal justice reform movement more harm than good. Think about it: Is anyone really going to change their mind on police reform because they saw a tweet from Gushers or Netflix?

 

More likely, the ongoing parade of woke corporate messaging will just alienate more people. Average people have busy lives. When bombarded with substance-free virtue signaling at every turn, many people will eventually tune out the broader, important criminal justice conversation — and, frankly, it’s hard to blame them.

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/brands-like-hbo-and-nike-should-end-the-black-lives-matter-virtue-signaling

ID: 214649 June 13, 2020, 4:15 a.m. No.9596382   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6404 >>6415 >>6588 >>6675 >>6729

>>9596327

Did a big digg on Strong Cities and the Institute for Strategic Studies which sponsors it, Havlicek is the head. It was after they did a study TRASHING Q movement in Feb 2019 sponsored by Open Society Foundations.

https://www.isdglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/The-Battle-for-Bavaria.pdf

Said we were messing with the Bavarian elections. There's more in qresear.ch but also the Information Warfare thread archive, which also has graphics:

https://archive.fo/E0oJm

there is TONS to dig on there - like the funding received from the US gov't for ISD (which is a London-based group).

But once i started baking, there wasn't time.

ID: 214649 June 13, 2020, 4:27 a.m. No.9596433   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6438 >>6484

>>9596366

>The real test is to watch where these companies are donating money

it can be hard to avoid doing business w comp'd companies because they are numerous but also often dominate their industries ("frens in high places")

ID: 214649 June 13, 2020, 4:38 a.m. No.9596482   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6499

Have tried to drum up interest whenever possible. First Information Warfare thread was deleted on /qresearch/, new one is on /qrb/

Plz consider posting what you find there as well, there's much more than i can explain her right now.

>>>/qrb/22979

i check in sometimes, both threads are mine.

o7

ID: 214649 June 13, 2020, 4:52 a.m. No.9596543   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6588 >>6596 >>6675 >>6729

>>9596439

Strong Cities & ISD are strongly connect with efforts to shut down "hate speech"

(qanon group specifically included)

 

Excerpt from March 2019 post:

Soros-sponsored report says Q movement promoted anti-democratic ideas in Bavarian elections

The name of this report is The Battle for Bavaria: Online information in the 2018 Bavarian State Election. It was generated by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and is referenced either explicitly or implicitely in 3 hit pieces on Q group published in the last two weeks:

  1. German neofascists used Qanon to expand their reach (no author)

https://boingboing.net/2019/02/24/afd-and-qanon.html Feb. 24

  1. How fringe groups are using QAnon to amplify their wild messages by Kelly Weill

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-fringe-groups-are-using-qanon-to-amplify-their-wild-messages Feb. 20

  1. Stop the online conspiracy theorists before they break democracy

by Julia Ebner

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/18/online-conspiracy-theorists-democracy

 

Qresear.ch has more.

ID: 214649 June 13, 2020, 5:04 a.m. No.9596588   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6593 >>6622

#12282 @570

>>9596137 HRC: 'I wanted to boil Bill in oil - but I've never regretted staying with him'

>>9596162 Occupy 2.0: Nashville Trying to Set Up the Next Radical Autonomous Zone

>>9596169 A New Silent Majority Is Coming (America in the Throes of a Nat'l Madness)

>>9596180 Three indicted on NYPD Molotov cocktail-throwing charge

>>9596181 Dispatch from 'CHAZ': Tweets call for guns, Gatorade and cigarettes

>>9596188, >>9596251 Black woman destroys white libs blocking her car (next bred title!)

>>9596204, >>9596328 Brands, shut up: Put an end to corporate BLM virtue signaling

>>9596233 Intel’s Jim Keller Leaves the Company for ‘Personal Reasons’

>>9596284 NYT publishes op-ed by a radical leftist terrorist supporter calling for abolishing prisions and police

>>9596317 Terrence K Williams slams Howard Stern blackface vid

>>9596320 Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Roberts admitted to hospital w/bacterial meningitis

>>9596327, >>9596439, >>9596540, >>9596543, >>9596394 Strong Cities, UN connection, Soros - Anons DIGG

>>9596382, >>9596415, >>9596543 Moar on Strong Cites

>>9596392, >>9596402, >>9596420 Great POTUS rt's (First Step Act, etc.)

>>9596397 Judge asks if Michael Flynn dismissal is good for racist police

>>9596432 Philonise Floyd testifies at House hearing on police brutality

>>9596443 US Army logistics

>>9596447 Ghislaine Maxwell fights to keep names of pedos secret

>>9596453 Prince Andrew warned to 'stay away from US' as prosecutors continue Epstein probe

>>9596544 Social Justice Warrior-ing: now taught at FBI Academy?

 

anons, baker included info from several foundation diggs i did on Strong Cities last year but will remove if requested

 

baker requests handoff nb

will ghost if no takers

tx for the great digs so far, anons

ID: 214649 June 13, 2020, 5:08 a.m. No.9596603   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6675 >>6729

>>9596584

Yes, saw that. Agenda 21 has always used subversion of local cities as a 'bottom up' approach sponsored by the UN. Strong Cities is another tentacle but one that gets funded by the US gov't, so many tentacles. There are ties to Atlantic Council and Travis View too:

see #7385121 in qresear.ch

ID: 214649 June 13, 2020, 5:30 a.m. No.9596675   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6685 >>6710

#12282

>>9596137 HRC: 'I wanted to boil Bill in oil - but I've never regretted staying with him'

>>9596162 Occupy 2.0: Nashville Trying to Set Up the Next Radical Autonomous Zone

>>9596169 A New Silent Majority Is Coming (America in the Throes of a Nat'l Madness)

>>9596180 Three indicted on NYPD Molotov cocktail-throwing charge

>>9596181 Dispatch from 'CHAZ': Tweets call for guns, Gatorade and cigarettes

>>9596188, >>9596251 Black woman destroys white libs blocking her car (next bred title!)

>>9596204, >>9596328 Brands, shut up: Put an end to corporate BLM virtue signaling

>>9596233 Intel’s Jim Keller Leaves the Company for ‘Personal Reasons’

>>9596153, >>9596284 NYT publishes op-ed by a radical leftist terrorist supporter calling for abolishing prisions and police

>>9596317 Terrence K Williams slams Howard Stern blackface vid

>>9596453 Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Roberts admitted to hospital w/bacterial meningitis

>>9596327, >>9596439, >>9596540, >>9596543, >>9596394 Strong Cities, UN connection, Soros - Anons DIGG

>>9596382, >>9596415, >>9596584, >>9596603 Moar on Strong Cites

>>9596392, >>9596402, >>9596420 Great POTUS rt's (First Step Act, etc.)

>>9596397 Judge asks if Michael Flynn dismissal is good for racist police

>>9596432 Philonise Floyd testifies at House hearing on police brutality

>>9596443 US Army logistics

>>9596447 Ghislaine Maxwell fights to keep names of pedos secret

>>9596453 Prince Andrew warned to 'stay away from US' as prosecutors continue Epstein probe

>>9596544 Social Justice Warrior-ing: now taught at FBI Academy?

>>9596615, >>9596615 Van Jones: HRC supporters more dangerous to black people than KKK (vid clip)

>>9596633 10 Florida SWAT officers quit unit over ‘political climate’

 

LAST CALL

anons plz report anything that's image-heavy later, nothing's coming thru right now

ID: 214649 June 13, 2020, 5:45 a.m. No.9596729   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6765

#12282

>>9596137 HRC: 'I wanted to boil Bill in oil - but I've never regretted staying with him'

>>9596162 Occupy 2.0: Nashville Trying to Set Up the Next Radical Autonomous Zone

>>9596169 A New Silent Majority Is Coming (America in the Throes of a Nat'l Madness)

>>9596180 Three indicted on NYPD Molotov cocktail-throwing charge

>>9596181 Dispatch from 'CHAZ': Tweets call for guns, Gatorade and cigarettes

>>9596188, >>9596251 Black woman destroys white libs blocking her car (next bred title!)

>>9596204, >>9596328 Brands, shut up: Put an end to corporate BLM virtue signaling

>>9596233 Intel’s Jim Keller Leaves the Company for ‘Personal Reasons’

>>9596153, >>9596284 NYT publishes op-ed by a radical leftist terrorist supporter calling for abolishing prisions and police

>>9596317 Terrence K Williams slams Howard Stern blackface vid

>>9596325 Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Roberts admitted to hospital w/bacterial meningitis

>>9596327, >>9596439, >>9596540, >>9596543, >>9596394 Strong Cities, UN connection, Soros - Anons DIGG

>>9596382, >>9596415, >>9596584, >>9596603 Moar on Strong Cites

>>9596392, >>9596402, >>9596420 Great POTUS rt's (First Step Act, etc.)

>>9596397 Judge asks if Michael Flynn dismissal is good for racist police

>>9596432 Philonise Floyd testifies at House hearing on police brutality

>>9596443 US Army logistics

>>9596447 Ghislaine Maxwell fights to keep names of pedos secret

>>9596453 Prince Andrew warned to 'stay away from US' as prosecutors continue Epstein probe

>>9596544 Social Justice Warrior-ing: now taught at FBI Academy?

>>9596615, >>9596615 Van Jones: HRC supporters more dangerous to black people than KKK (vid clip)

>>9596633 10 Florida SWAT officers quit unit over ‘political climate’

>>9596714 Twatter-sponsored fake Anonymous twattter acct: warning to /qresearch/