Why the hell is Yahoo running a story with this kind of misinformation and editorializing on its Finance page?
The brewing industry, which traditionally focused on themes of patriotism, sports and classic Americana, recently has witnessed a cultural and marketing shift with Bud Light’s recent foray into more progressive advertising by featuring transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney.
The campaign stirred controversy, resulting in a decline in sales for the nation’s top-selling beer brand.
Georgia entrepreneur Seth Weathers’s response to the campaign is both bold and reflective of a growing sentiment among some consumers.
There was no Bud Light advertising campaign featuring Dylan Mulvaney. They gave her a personalized promotional can as part of a promotional campaign where they did the same for a lot of social media influencers.
Why is this bullshit, biased, puff piece story on Yahoo Finance?
Yahoo is just a content farm now. At the bottom of the article it comes from a place called Benzinga.
A quick google gets:
Benzinga.com is a financial news website in Detroit, Mich., which sells promotional “news” packages for $5,750, according to the Columbia Journalism Review.
Yeah, that whole exchange pissed me off. I haven’t seen any mainstream media report what was really going on there. Stefanik wasn’t referring to people explicitly saying, “I think all Jews should be exterminated.” She was referring to pro-Palestinian protestors using phrases like “From the river to the sea” and words like intafada, which Republicans and Democrats alike are claiming are terms literally calling for the extermination of the Jewish people. And because student protestors at those three schools were using those words, Stefanik and others want all those students expelled. So she was trying to trap those professors into agreeing with her, and they wanted to give more nuanced, and accurate, responses. But the media all sided with Stefanik. And so now the Penn President has resigned, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Harvard and MIT followed.
And yes, Molloy is right. These motherfuckers have demanded that universities allow speakers on campus who call for the extermination of trans people, who spout white supremacist nonsense (including, ironically, anti-Semitic nonsense) for years. The hypocritical assholes who have been whining about cancel culture for years are now trying to cancel these university presidents. The other crazy thing is that those three schools are not bastions of leftist politics. Amy Wax is still on the faculty at Penn Law, even though she is clearly a white supremacist. A ton of Fed Socs come out of Harvard and Yale, and MIT is an engineering school, and the entire engineering profession is still largely dominated by white men. I suspect it’s not a coincidence, either, that the three schools that got grilled all have (or had) women presidents. Misogyny is tied up in all this bullshit, too.
Exactly… but they’re not far right indoctrination job programs either, so according the far right, they’re woke…
GAH!!!
these fuckers are destroying higher ed right now, and everyone is shrugging their shoulders saying “oh, maybe they have a point! Who needs the humanities!”
Yeah, it’s frustrating. I got my engineering degree from Texas A&M in the early 90s, and we had a minimum number of humanities credits we had to take. I filled most of mine with German, which led to me getting the opportunity to go to Germany in the late spring of 1990, just a few months after the Berlin Wall fell. None of that had anything to do with engineering, but it made me a better human more aware of the world around me, and that made me a better engineer. But all these people want are an exploitable working class. Jesus, I really am like that trans progression meme someone posted in another thread, lol.
And that is exactly why the fascist fucks are so oppised to things of that sort. Only makes you a less malleable plebe, and more likely to think for yourself. The Horror!
Insert apocryphal quote about Ginger Rogers doing everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. Normally, I cringe a little at that quote, but since this is literally about dancing, I think it’s actually applicable.
