NOW IT IS ANTI-WOKE
Ford Motors commercial accused of destroying '120 years of American history in one minute'
Story by Lynn Chaya • May 19,2023
Ford Motors has become the latest target for conservatives after an old commercial showing a rainbow-wrapped Raptor went viral.
Like many corporations’ marketing strategies, the automobile manufacturer hopped on the inclusion bandwagon and aired the ad during Pride Month last June.
The video resurfaced after TikTok user Brian Michael posted it on May 16 with a text overlay claiming the company had “destroyed 120 years of American history in 1 minute.”
Conservative political commentator Dave Rubin, with a YouTube following of over 1.94 million subscribers, expressed his discontent with “the obsession to market everything” towards the LGBTQ+ community.
“Why would you be marketing towards a very niche audience?” he asked.
“What gay person is walking in when you want to buy a car… ‘Well which one of these trucks is gayer? Do you have this in rainbow?’ None of it makes any sense,” he continued.
Over the last few weeks, the controversy surrounding “woke ads” have caused an uproar on social media.
Six weeks ago, transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney received backlash for a social media post about cans of Bud Light beer that were personally sent to her.
Miller Lite draws calls for boycott over 'woke' advert: 'Did nobody learn from Bud Light?'
Gun maker goes into damage control after Twitter manager supports feminist Miller Lite ad
Two Republican senators went so far as to ask the U.S. federal government to investigate the ad. Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee presented a letter from the Senate’s commerce committee urging Anheuser Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth to “sever its relationship” with Mulvaney, “publicly apologize”, and force her to delete “any Anheuser-Busch content” on her social media platforms, or submit to an investigation from a trade association, the Independent reported.
Following that controversy, Miller Lite released an ad apologizing for decades of sexist imagery in beer commercials. It features comedian and actor Ilana Glazer explaining to viewers that “women were among the very first to brew beer, ever. From Mesopotamia to the Middles Ages to Colonial America, women were the ones doing the brewing.”
The ad drew criticism from conservative personalities on social media.
“Miller Lite saw the Bud Light disaster and decided they needed their own woke beer ad,” said radio host Clay Travis.
Graham Allen, the host of the Dear America podcast, added: “Did NOBODY learn from Bud Light’s COSTLY mistake? Miller Lite just dropped this WOKE advertisement!!!”
Gun maker goes into damage control after Twitter manager supports feminist Miller Lite ad
Story by National Post Staff • Thursday, May 18, 2023
An image from the Miller Lite ad, featuring Ilana Glazer.
The ad drew criticism from conservatives, many of whom had already been protesting a Bud Light ad featuring transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney. Miller was accused of following Bud’s lead, although its ad had actually debuted first.
Then gun manufacturer Heckler & Koch joined the fray, tweeting: “Wow – woke? Allow me to translate: objectifying women was never a good marketing strategy. In the firearms industry, that was a prominent strategy up until recently. Many industries have done that (including beer corps). As an actual woman typing this, I’ll use more words for you to comprehend: using bunnies to sell products is trash marketing. Supporting women by not doing that is good.”
Several additional tweets – all since deleted – added further praise for Miller’s ad, with a few caveats.
One said: “ Now to address the rest, non-bikini parts, of the ad: seems like they should have given sources for the info they’re throwing out. And, for them to isolate a huge part of their target consumer base makes no sense. Annnd, their virtue signaling ad doesn’t even make me want to drink their beer. [woman shrugging emoji] But, at least they used actual women for it (presumably).”
After the tweets were taken down, the company then posted another that said: “The Road Forward.” It showed a road sign that read: “HK does not engage in identity politics. A policy was violated. Changes were made.” No further explanation was given.
In an odd postscript, right-wing U.S. website Revolver News then revealed that the marketing manager behind the tweets had at one point been a bikini model. It also suggested that “major corporations had better fire their female-dominated marketing teams, stat, if they want to stop stepping on woke landmines.”
Story by National Post Staff • Thursday, May 18, 2023
An image from the Miller Lite ad, featuring Ilana Glazer.
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A German gun maker has become the latest well-armed combatant in America’s culture wars, after the company’s Twitter feed came out in favour of a Miller Lite ad that has U.S. conservatives riled.
In early March, Miller unveiled the ad, which featured comedian and actor Ilana Glazer explaining to viewers that “women were among the very first to brew beer, ever.” She adds: “Centuries later, how did the industry pay homage to the founding mothers of beer? They put us in bikinis.”
A German gun maker has become the latest well-armed combatant in America’s culture wars, after the company’s Twitter feed came out in favour of a Miller Lite ad that has U.S. conservatives riled.
In early March, Miller unveiled the ad, which featured comedian and actor Ilana Glazer explaining to viewers that “women were among the very first to brew beer, ever.” She adds: “Centuries later, how did the industry pay homage to the founding mothers of beer? They put us in bikinis.”
The ad drew criticism from conservatives, many of whom had already been protesting a Bud Light ad featuring transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney. Miller was accused of following Bud’s lead, although its ad had actually debuted first.
Then gun manufacturer Heckler & Koch joined the fray, tweeting: “Wow – woke? Allow me to translate: objectifying women was never a good marketing strategy. In the firearms industry, that was a prominent strategy up until recently. Many industries have done that (including beer corps). As an actual woman typing this, I’ll use more words for you to comprehend: using bunnies to sell products is trash marketing. Supporting women by not doing that is good.”
Several additional tweets – all since deleted – added further praise for Miller’s ad, with a few caveats.
One said: “ Now to address the rest, non-bikini parts, of the ad: seems like they should have given sources for the info they’re throwing out. And, for them to isolate a huge part of their target consumer base makes no sense. Annnd, their virtue signaling ad doesn’t even make me want to drink their beer. [woman shrugging emoji] But, at least they used actual women for it (presumably).”
In an odd postscript, right-wing U.S. website Revolver News then revealed that the marketing manager behind the tweets had at one point been a bikini model. It also suggested that “major corporations had better fire their female-dominated marketing teams, stat, if they want to stop stepping on woke landmines.”
Miller Lite becomes the latest beer to draw calls for boycott over 'woke' advert: 'Did nobody learn from Bud Light’s mistake?'
Story by Chris Knight • Tuesday, May 16,2023
Miller Lite and Bud Light have both drawn calls for boycotts by consumers
Miller Lite is facing a brewing backlash over an advertisement that apologizes for decades of sexist imagery in beer commercials, and offers reparations of a sort.
The 90-second spot features comedian and actor Ilana Glazer explaining to viewers that “women were among the very first to brew beer, ever. From Mesopotamia to the Middles Ages to Colonial America, women were the ones doing the brewing.”
She adds: “Centuries later, how did the industry pay homage to the founding mothers of beer? They put us in bikinis.”
Glazer then goes on to explain Miller’s “Bad S#!T to Good $#!T” campaign, which involves turning old advertising material into compost, feeding that to worms, using the resulting fertilizer to grow hops, and donating those crops to women brewers.
But the message has angered many on social media who are now calling for a boycott of the Molson Coors product. This barely six weeks after a similar furor erupted over a TikTok post by transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney, who had received free samples of Bud Light beer.
That boycott hurt sales of the rival Anheuser-Busch brand among U.S. conservatives, although Business Insider magazine subsequently reported that global sales for the company had dropped by only one per cent during that time, and that the company’s stock had risen after it reported strong quarterly earnings.
The Miller Lite ad has been pilloried by the likes of radio host Clay Travis, who tweeted: “Miller Lite saw the Bud Light disaster and decided they needed their own woke beer ad.” Graham Allen, host of the Dear America podcast, added: “Did NOBODY learn from Bud Light’s COSTLY mistake? Miller Lite just dropped this WOKE advertisement!!!” And conservative commentator Rogan O’Handley chimed in with: “Miller Lite apparently wants the Bud Light boycott treatment too. Well they can have it.”
Others have pointed out that the advertisement is humorous; that women make up half the population of potential customers; and that, far from following in Bud Lite’s sudsy footsteps, the Miller campaign was
“Many in the beer industry (Miller Lite included) alienated the very people who helped create it,” the company said in a March 7 press release. “How? By dividing women as consumers, objectifying them in their ads, and frankly, putting a lot of bad $#!T out there.”
Last year, Miller Lite launched a line of Mary Lisle cans, in celebration of the first female brewer in American history, who inherited her late father’s brewhouse in Philadelphia in 1734.
It was a far cry from 2003, when Miller released its “Catfight” commercial, featuring two women wrestling in mud and tearing off each other’s clothes over whether Miller Lite “tasted great” or was “less filling.”
That ad also drew criticism (over email rather than Twitter), with image consultant Laura Ries remarking: “It’s explicit. It’s degrading. It has no real message, except all men are idiots and all they think about are girls mud wrestling.”
Story by Chris Knight • Tuesday, May 16,2023
Miller Lite and Bud Light have both drawn calls for boycotts by consumers
Miller Lite is facing a brewing backlash over an advertisement that apologizes for decades of sexist imagery in beer commercials, and offers reparations of a sort.
The 90-second spot features comedian and actor Ilana Glazer explaining to viewers that “women were among the very first to brew beer, ever. From Mesopotamia to the Middles Ages to Colonial America, women were the ones doing the brewing.”
She adds: “Centuries later, how did the industry pay homage to the founding mothers of beer? They put us in bikinis.”
Glazer then goes on to explain Miller’s “Bad S#!T to Good $#!T” campaign, which involves turning old advertising material into compost, feeding that to worms, using the resulting fertilizer to grow hops, and donating those crops to women brewers.
But the message has angered many on social media who are now calling for a boycott of the Molson Coors product. This barely six weeks after a similar furor erupted over a TikTok post by transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney, who had received free samples of Bud Light beer.
That boycott hurt sales of the rival Anheuser-Busch brand among U.S. conservatives, although Business Insider magazine subsequently reported that global sales for the company had dropped by only one per cent during that time, and that the company’s stock had risen after it reported strong quarterly earnings.
The Miller Lite ad has been pilloried by the likes of radio host Clay Travis, who tweeted: “Miller Lite saw the Bud Light disaster and decided they needed their own woke beer ad.” Graham Allen, host of the Dear America podcast, added: “Did NOBODY learn from Bud Light’s COSTLY mistake? Miller Lite just dropped this WOKE advertisement!!!” And conservative commentator Rogan O’Handley chimed in with: “Miller Lite apparently wants the Bud Light boycott treatment too. Well they can have it.”
Others have pointed out that the advertisement is humorous; that women make up half the population of potential customers; and that, far from following in Bud Lite’s sudsy footsteps, the Miller campaign was
“Many in the beer industry (Miller Lite included) alienated the very people who helped create it,” the company said in a March 7 press release. “How? By dividing women as consumers, objectifying them in their ads, and frankly, putting a lot of bad $#!T out there.”
Last year, Miller Lite launched a line of Mary Lisle cans, in celebration of the first female brewer in American history, who inherited her late father’s brewhouse in Philadelphia in 1734.
It was a far cry from 2003, when Miller released its “Catfight” commercial, featuring two women wrestling in mud and tearing off each other’s clothes over whether Miller Lite “tasted great” or was “less filling.”
That ad also drew criticism (over email rather than Twitter), with image consultant Laura Ries remarking: “It’s explicit. It’s degrading. It has no real message, except all men are idiots and all they think about are girls mud wrestling.”
'Woke mind virus' has turned San Francisco into a zombie town, Elon Musk says
Story by Chris Knight • Wednesday, May 17, 2023
A hazy San Francisco skyline as a result of wildfires is seen from Dolores Park in San Francisco, California on September 9, 2020.
The City by the Bay is being overrun by zombies, according to Elon Musk, who treated a strange agreement to recent comments by comedian Dave Chappelle.
In a recent standup performance at the Masonic in San Francisco, Chappelle said the city had become “Half Glee, half zombie movie,” as he told the crowd about seeing someone defecating in front of a restaurant in the city’s Tenderloin neighbourhood as he was walking in. He concluded: “Y’all [N-word]s need a Batman!”
The comments struck a chord with the billionaire Telsa/SpaceX chief, who tweeted: “Rightly so. The disaster that is downtown SF, once beautiful [sic] and throving, now a derelict zombie apocalypse, is due to the work mind virus.”
The term “woke mind virus” is one that Musk has been using since late 2021, about the same time that author and longtime San Franciscan Michael Shellenberger published San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, a book that attributed the city’s woes to progressive policies that, he said, went from tolerating crime and homelessness to enabling them.
Despite his repeated use of the phrase, the precise meaning of “woke mind virus” has been difficult to pin down. Musk told Bill Maher during an interview on HBO: “I think we need to be very cautious about anything that is anti-meritocratic, and anything that … results in the suppression of free speech. Those are two aspects of the woke mind virus that I think are very dangerous.”
Musk’s unhappiness with San Francisco is nothing new. In April he tweeted that one could “literally film a Walking Dead episode unedited in downtown SF,” adding: “This is where San Francisco politics leads and Twitter was exporting this self-destructive mind virus to the world … Evil in guise of good.”
And earlier this month, in the wake of Nordstrom announcing the closure of two stores near Union Square, he remarked: “So many stores shuttered in downtown SF. Feels post-apocalyptic.”
This is also not the first time Musk and Chappelle have been on the same page — or stage. In December, during a performance at Chase Center, he invited the tech billionaire to join him, asking the crowd to “make some noise for the richest man in the world.”
They did, with many booing lustily, so loudly and for so long that much of their ensuing conversation was drowned out by the noise. And Chappelle was not particularly kind, remarking: “His whole business model is f— Earth, I’m leaving anyway,” while asking Musk if he could have the first comedy club on Mars.
Musk’s comments have not endeared him to city leaders either, with San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins calling his tweets “reckless and irresponsible” in the wake of the killing of Cash App founder Bob Lee in the city’s Rincon Hill neighbourhood.
Story by Chris Knight • Wednesday, May 17, 2023
A hazy San Francisco skyline as a result of wildfires is seen from Dolores Park in San Francisco, California on September 9, 2020.
The City by the Bay is being overrun by zombies, according to Elon Musk, who treated a strange agreement to recent comments by comedian Dave Chappelle.
In a recent standup performance at the Masonic in San Francisco, Chappelle said the city had become “Half Glee, half zombie movie,” as he told the crowd about seeing someone defecating in front of a restaurant in the city’s Tenderloin neighbourhood as he was walking in. He concluded: “Y’all [N-word]s need a Batman!”
The comments struck a chord with the billionaire Telsa/SpaceX chief, who tweeted: “Rightly so. The disaster that is downtown SF, once beautiful [sic] and throving, now a derelict zombie apocalypse, is due to the work mind virus.”
The term “woke mind virus” is one that Musk has been using since late 2021, about the same time that author and longtime San Franciscan Michael Shellenberger published San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, a book that attributed the city’s woes to progressive policies that, he said, went from tolerating crime and homelessness to enabling them.
Despite his repeated use of the phrase, the precise meaning of “woke mind virus” has been difficult to pin down. Musk told Bill Maher during an interview on HBO: “I think we need to be very cautious about anything that is anti-meritocratic, and anything that … results in the suppression of free speech. Those are two aspects of the woke mind virus that I think are very dangerous.”
Musk’s unhappiness with San Francisco is nothing new. In April he tweeted that one could “literally film a Walking Dead episode unedited in downtown SF,” adding: “This is where San Francisco politics leads and Twitter was exporting this self-destructive mind virus to the world … Evil in guise of good.”
And earlier this month, in the wake of Nordstrom announcing the closure of two stores near Union Square, he remarked: “So many stores shuttered in downtown SF. Feels post-apocalyptic.”
This is also not the first time Musk and Chappelle have been on the same page — or stage. In December, during a performance at Chase Center, he invited the tech billionaire to join him, asking the crowd to “make some noise for the richest man in the world.”
They did, with many booing lustily, so loudly and for so long that much of their ensuing conversation was drowned out by the noise. And Chappelle was not particularly kind, remarking: “His whole business model is f— Earth, I’m leaving anyway,” while asking Musk if he could have the first comedy club on Mars.
Musk’s comments have not endeared him to city leaders either, with San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins calling his tweets “reckless and irresponsible” in the wake of the killing of Cash App founder Bob Lee in the city’s Rincon Hill neighbourhood.
'Woke policies' will make NASA lose the space race to China: Republican senators
Story by Lynn Chaya • Thursday, May 18, 2023
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks during a business hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill May 11, 2023 in Washington, DC.
Two U.S. Republican senators challenged NASA’s 2024 budget request during a hearing on Wednesday, accusing the space agency of standing behind President Joe Biden’s liberal initiatives.
While Democrat and Republican senators both confronted NASA administrator Bill Nelson on an array of issues pertaining to the 2024 US$27.2 billion budget proposal, conservative senators Ted Cruz and Eric Schmitt focused on two points: initiatives to combat climate change and investments in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Cruz, a Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and Schmitt, Ranking Member of its Space and Science Subcommittee, claimed the space organization has veered away from its nonpartisan roots and has become overly politicized by aligning with Biden policies.
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“If NASA is seen as partisan, that is very bad for space and space exploration,” Cruz said during the hearing.
Story by Lynn Chaya • Thursday, May 18, 2023
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks during a business hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill May 11, 2023 in Washington, DC.
Two U.S. Republican senators challenged NASA’s 2024 budget request during a hearing on Wednesday, accusing the space agency of standing behind President Joe Biden’s liberal initiatives.
While Democrat and Republican senators both confronted NASA administrator Bill Nelson on an array of issues pertaining to the 2024 US$27.2 billion budget proposal, conservative senators Ted Cruz and Eric Schmitt focused on two points: initiatives to combat climate change and investments in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Cruz, a Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and Schmitt, Ranking Member of its Space and Science Subcommittee, claimed the space organization has veered away from its nonpartisan roots and has become overly politicized by aligning with Biden policies.
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“If NASA is seen as partisan, that is very bad for space and space exploration,” Cruz said during the hearing.
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“So I hope NASA will continue its tradition of staying out of those battles.”
By implementing policies concerning the disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions and a US$22 million investment in diversity, equity and inclusion, Cruz claimed the funding “has little to do with winning what you have called a space race between the free world and China,” Space Policy Online quoted.
Schmitt chimed in by voicing his disagreement with the administration’s “obsession with misguided woke policies related to climate change and diversity, equity and inclusion.”
“China has no interest in out-DEIing us and they’re not intimidated at all by this divisive radical policy that’s found its way into this budget,” he said.
Nelson did not offer comprehensive answers to the Senators’ questions, though he assured the committee that NASA will remain “not only bipartisan, but non-partisan.”
By implementing policies concerning the disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions and a US$22 million investment in diversity, equity and inclusion, Cruz claimed the funding “has little to do with winning what you have called a space race between the free world and China,” Space Policy Online quoted.
Schmitt chimed in by voicing his disagreement with the administration’s “obsession with misguided woke policies related to climate change and diversity, equity and inclusion.”
“China has no interest in out-DEIing us and they’re not intimidated at all by this divisive radical policy that’s found its way into this budget,” he said.
Nelson did not offer comprehensive answers to the Senators’ questions, though he assured the committee that NASA will remain “not only bipartisan, but non-partisan.”
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