Since we are destroying the south. Let's go all the way.
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And Volkswagen managed to get off the ground thanks to Hitler's help. They're still well-liked in the States, and its a Dodge Challenger that's associated with white supremacy these days. Because things change. Volkswagen isn't supported by Hilter these days. Coca Cola isn't currently run by a lieutenant of the Confederate Army. And neither have racist connotations these days.
@Salami
Also, Henry Ford was notoriously antisemitic, and even was praised by Hitler himself in Mein Kampf.
(My phone tried to turn Mein Kampf into "Neon Lamps" just now...lol)
As pointed out above, the original formula had cocaine in it; where did you think the name came from? Now I don't think they even use real sugar (I don't drink it so am not sure). You sound like the folks who organized a boycott of Domino's Pizza because the then-owner Tom Monaghan supported Operation Rescue. They kept the boycott going long after Monaghan left Dominos.
It's tough to keep track when we're not supposed to support Disney because it's pro-gay, Hobby Lobby because they're overtly Christian and not open Sundays, Chic-Fil-A because they're anti-gay, and on and on and on. Here's a radical idea: buy a product or use a service because you can use it and you like it, without worrying about its history or corporate board believes.
Are you telling me that you can't tell the difference between a monument celebrating oppression and a goddamn soft drink?
The monuments to the Confederacy are coming down, and it's long overdue.
Have a Coke, and a smile, and shut the fuck up.
*sips Pepsi*
@Churchy:
"Hobby Lobby because they're overtly Christian and not open Sundays,"
No, we boycott Hobby Lobby because they got the SCOTUS to make it legal for corporations to refuse to cover reproductive health on their employees' health insurance.
If they have any statues of him, we'll talk.
Alternate joke:
Back when they put out New Coke, I'd have agreed.
@Churchy: Regular Coke has high-fructose corn syrup, which is real sugar in the sense that it isn't aspartame or another artificial sweetener. (I think aspartame is what Diet Coke uses but I'd have to go look.) I don't know if Coke ever went through a raw sugar phase; I know some sodas did depending on whether health nuts were more freaked out about real sugar or fake sugar that year.
Also, Coke was originally made from raw coca leaves; as with pot vs. hemp, the whole plant has some psychoactive chemicals, but not so's you'd really notice (you'd overdose on caffeine first, for starters). It wasn't as though it was laudanum.
Yes, and there used to be a jar of marmalade that had a racist caricature on it; it got replaced with Paddington Bear. Times change!
Also, the only reason Coca-Cola exists is because the guy who created it was a morphine addict looking for a substitute. He was wounded in the war, and he also ended up dying penniless two years after selling the recipe to Candler.
Vimto is drunk during Ramadan in the middle east; especially at Eid al-Fitr in Saudi Arabia.
It's been exported & sold there for over 80 years: from Britain.
Is an entire country terrorist , then?
What happened last Sunday in Charlottesville can't be representative of an entire country: but certainly of the Alt-Shite as a whole.
Coca-Cola is syrupy and gross. I'll drink Diet Coke is nothing else is available, but I'd much rather have a Diet Dr. Pepper or Sparkling Ice.
A lot of companies have nasty things in their history, but continuing to boycott them for things they are no longer doing is pointless.
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