Goodyear goes Woke, cops backlash, walks it back

[Harry Bosch]

I can't help but to commend you and others here for your laser-like focus on the most critical political problems that we face today. In daily, repeated threads you and others are pointing out the tremendous injustices by numerous conspiracies being inflicted on white, conservative men, detailing the grinding down of their civil rights in order to advance the privileges of "those people."

Thank God in heaven above that you have your priorities straight unlike those here needlessly worrying about a pandemic, an economic depression, the hoax of systemic racism, and the hoax of creeping authoritarianism undermining our democracy, which was never meant to be a democracy, read your Constitution!

I second this. With all the coddling of blacks, unemployed, etc. we see in this liberal echo chamber, it's good to focus on the real victims.

Another oppressed group is billionaires. While their tax rate may seem low as a percentage, their tax burden is huge in absolute terms, millions of dollars more than the paltry taxes paid by those to whom liberals pander. And now AOC and the other Commies propose a wealth tax? Billionaires will be reluctant to have children knowing what a handicap their heirs will start life with.

#BLM is an extremist, racist, Marxist ideology that is as far from "middle of the road" as MAGA, if not more so.

The marching cry "Black Lives Matter" really does ask for too much. I watched a YouTube where even a Black suggested this be toned down to "Black Lives Exist." I think that slogan might be acceptable — what do you think, Derec?

Buddy! I'm against a wealth tax. I'm on the right on most business issues. But to claim that Billionaires are oppressed is beyond the pail! <I just realized that you are probably being sarcastic here.>

 

[Toni]

Once again using "Woke" as a dubious synonym for anything left of the political center.

Again, missing the HUGE point here: The sitting POTUS is committing a crime by calling for a boycott of a company. Note: It would have similarly been criminal for Trump to have called for support of Goodyear, just as it was criminal for him to promote a company making 'Mexican' canned goods.

https://www.oge.gov/web/oge.nsf/Director's Notes/BA9EE0185F52C2FB852580A70063149F?opendocument

 

[Rhea]

Yes, I believe all of those were heavy with derisive sarcasm....

 

[jab]

By the way, now Amazon has pulled "Joe and the Hoe" merchandise. But offensive merchandise about Trump? Totally allowed!
If you think merchandise making fun of Trump is ok, but merchandise making fun of Joe and Kamala is not, how do you justify that?

View attachment 29029

Depends on why it was taken down. Amazon may take a harder line on content perceived as misogynistic, homophobic, racist (etc.) than content that is merely mocking. What items not calling Harris a whore (or similar epithet) have also been taken down? What comparable items to 'Joe and Ho(e)' mocking Trump have been left up? Have you tried filing a complaint about those items to see if they get removed eventually?

At a quick search, I'm finding shirts which say 'Biden for nursing home 2020', 'Joe Biden touched me', a face mask that says 'Fuck Biden'. There is more. Unsurprisingly, I find more for Trump, but he's already been in office for four years, and the man is, through and through, a piece of shit, so no doubt he's the bigger target. I still find some anti-Obama stuff up for those who haven't gotten over that.


Amazon is a massive fucking retailer. It's unlikely they filter items for sale as thoroughly as many retailers who have dedicated buying teams curating product selection. If I had to guess, they have some level of screening process and automated filters which can catch certain issues, but their push is to be permissive in allowing people to sell through their retail portal, and respond to suspicious activity (in the case of various forms of fraud) and reports from shoppers/ browsers retroactively. If something flies under the radar and doesn't get reported, it stays.

Do a little investigation before crying on the forums.

Thank you for doing the research.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

View attachment 29029

You're right. Making fun of someone's immoral behaviors; authoritarian executive orders and stated wishes; and their delusions that they are the Chosen One is EXACTLY the same thing as making fun of someone because she is a woman. Exactly the same.

There is absolutely no difference between calling someone like Trump, let's say "Twitler," due to his authoritarian mean-ness on Twitter and calling Kamala Harris a Ho because she is a woman. No difference at all. No business can implement policies refusing to take part in racism or misogyny without also implementing policies that disallow poking fun at criminal, immoral and stupid behaviors because.

Because they are exactly the same thing.

Just like Dr Martin Luther King Jr said, "I have a dream that one day people won't be judged by either the color of their skin or the content of their character."

...because they're exactly the same thing.

Thank you, Derec, for bringing this brilliance to our attention.

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[Politesse]

Once again using "Woke" as a dubious synonym for anything left of the political center.

Again, missing the HUGE point here: The sitting POTUS is committing a crime by calling for a boycott of a company. Note: It would have similarly been criminal for Trump to have called for support of Goodyear, just as it was criminal for him to promote a company making 'Mexican' canned goods.

https://www.oge.gov/web/oge.nsf/Director's Notes/BA9EE0185F52C2FB852580A70063149F?opendocument

Well, yeah. He's a freaking criminal.

 

[bigfield]

View attachment 29054

The pile-on in the Tweet thread is good for a chuckle.
https://twitter.com/TomCrenshaw4/status/1296169378531217409

If the original Tweet wasn't enough of a self-own, his rather defensive responses get the job done.