The Left Is Cancelling Dr Seuss

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(03-04-2021, 04:09 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: Here's the thing about stunts like the potato head thing.

The right getting outraged over it is literally why companies do it.

IF the right just ignored that, as they should, companies would stop doing it.

Because outrage generates clicks. And the left, who would otherwise probably not care at all about a corporate marketing stunt, now have to say calling a toy potato "potato head" rather than "Mr. Potato Head" is not something worth getting outraged over.

Then the right gets outrages that they're "Being silenced" and the cycle repeats.

And these potato toys, something I haven't even given a single thought to outside of the Toy Story Series in nearly 20 years, are now suddenly getting weeks worth of attention.

In short: Outrage culture is invented by the right because they have no actual policies to talk about (their entire CPAC was just meaningless virtue signaling towards "cancel culture," whatever the hell that is), and companies are steering into it HARD because they know they'll get signal boosted for weeks just by doing a simple, meaningless gesture of "hey guys, I'm not racist."

If the right just didn't fall for it every single time, the corporations who stand to profit from free marketing would stop doing it.

So, I agree with this.

If the "right" didn't fall for it then a lot of stunts like this would not result in anywhere near the amount of the coverage.  But...but  if there weren't other similar examples of this occuring, where the "left" (.0001% of the actual population, who seemingly only exist on Twitter) actually bullied some company or product then this climate wouldn't exist for these companies to exploit.

I'm not saying this to say that aren't things that need to be addressed, or discussed, or "canceled", I'm just pointing out that we've reached a point where it's all become a tad bit absurd.  Because of this, products like Mr. Potato Head can come in, insert themself into the conversation, and exploit it.

Again, I'm not trying to say certain things haven't been worthy of change.  I'm just pointing out that some of those things, that were not simple marketing, have created a climate where people will hear about Mr. Potato Head, and have to think a little bit about what it is that is actually going on with the decision.