The Left Is Cancelling Dr Seuss

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(03-04-2021, 04:37 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: 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.

There are very few things more vacuous than a corporation coming in and claiming to be "woke" because they know it will increase their profit margins due to the free marketing they get from both sides (the right attacking it and the left defending and/or demanding it). There's no such thing as bad publicity never shines more true than in cases like this.

The one thing I will say about corporate marketing stunts co-opting "woke" culture is that, whether we like it or not, the fact that corporations have decided that it is more profitable to be accepting (I.E. align with the left, generally speaking) than to not is an objectively good thing for society.

You know how they always say you know a meme is dead when corporations start using the meme with their corporate twitter accounts?

I think a similar thing can be said about social causes. You know a social cause has been successful when corporations are comfortable signaling towards that social cause, because they know that it will either not hurt their profits or will greatly increase their profits.

That's a really good message to have out in the world with so much hate and so much prejudice. We're on the winning side of the "culture war" and people who defend racism and sexism are just the minority screaming hopelessly into the dark and expanding void.