The California teen’s petition has fewer than 5,000 signatures but the fact that one bored teenager with a computer could cause an entirely successful corporation to change their grossly successful marketing strategy is a sure sign that we’ve lost the center of what began as an important discussion about race and government and has now devolved into cherry-picked temper tantrums.
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Ok. Now when will we all wake up to the fact that we have been conned, screwed over and hung out to dry?
They are awesome – I wish we had Trader Joe’s stores in Canada.
Thankfully one company came back to their senses. Let that be a lesson to many more that appear to be instantly willing to bend over backward for a few cancel culture bullies. I also acknowledge Goya Foods for their willingness to stare down the mob. Here in Canada I will always call our football team the Eskimos no matter what they try are finally allowed to change their name to.
Exactly, came back to their senses, but did not stand up to the mob and defend their values in the first place. I say FUCK them.
nobody was trigger by this crap until the left divided us all
Uh huh. That’s all it takes to cause a sh*t storm…a kid with a computer and some free time.
Consider the case of London Ontario’s Lyla Wheeler. 10 years old and has everything figured out and of course a local media that will print numerous stories about her advocacy complete with an accompanying photo of her cross armed and in the best badass pose a ten year old can muster underneath the street sign.
So what’s her cause? There’s a street in London named Plantation Road and she wants it changed ASAP. Why? Because she read a book once describing the life of Blacks working on plantations in the South during the 1800’s and is appalled that Canada would have a street named… Plantation Road.
The surrounding streets in that particular neighbourhood are named after various tree species which is the reason “Plantation Road” was named…”Plantation Road”. You know…a place where a farmer/landowner had the foresight to plant and cultivate numerous trees in a specific area. Otherwise known as a god damned plantation.
But never mind that, Li’l Lyla wants it changed and that’s that.
Lyla doesn’t want it changed her parents do and are using her as a surrogate. Beware little people with perceived power.
Good point.
Geez, corporate brass with balls. As rare as a Jew in Islamabad.
If Trader José and Trader Ming are racist, does it not stand to reason that Trader Joe is also? After all Joe or it’s full use Joseph is a pretty common name amongst Mennonites and Hutterites.
Not to mention that “Aunt Jemima” and “Uncle Ben” were real people. The first “Aunt Jemima” apparently did very well for herself. But, because of “racism”, we have to eliminate accomplished blacks.
“An important discussion about race and government” was the absolute LAST thing the people behind the George Floyd hysteria wanted.
Anybody who tries to start one is called a racist.
I fired off a quick huzzah to Trader Joe’s, giving them a bit of moral support.
If you told a visitor from Vulcan that there is a movement to have teams, brands, etc. only named after whites, he would probably ask, are the people in the movement white? And you would answer yes, mostly.
Then it would only be logical for him to ask what do these whites have against people of other races?
The relatively apolitical underclass is easily manipulated. When authority figures in govt and media tell them something often enough they believe it, Goebbels knew.
BLM is essentially providing an excuse for incompetent lives….it must be someone else’s fault.
The only way this stops is to look them in the eye and say no, you have the same opportunities as your socio economic equivalents in White society. Your choice, change your values.
Police killing of unarmed Black males is so vanishingly rare it’s a statistical non event.
It’s simple, the left think economic disaster will ensure Biden’s VP gets to be President.
Well, I wish either the Edmonton Eskimo’s stoop up to Belair Insurance or Belair Insurance BoD stood up to whoever was woke in the company or ignored the prattling classes tweeting their dislike of the legendary moniker.
Along with Abrosie getting all SJW with the CFL, am I ready to give up on the league. Ironically, am spending more time now with my son and hitting the links and am actually not really missing Canadian Football. Don’t watch American football so it was never part of the equation.
Anyway, when the day comes that Belair goes belly up, I am going to pour myself a nice scotch.