Bud Light suffered a bloodbath this past weekend.
Consumers nationwide revolted against the nation’s top-selling beer brand after it stepped “recklessly” into the culture wars last week with its new spokesperson, transgender TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney, according to bar owners and beer-industry experts around the country.
Bud Light’s vice president said she wanted to update its ‘fratty’ branding with ‘inclusivity’ days before Dylan Mulvaney’s partnership was unveiled.
Alissa Heinerscheid spoke on a business podcast on March 30 to claim that the Anheuser-Busch beer had been ‘in decline for a really long time’ – despite it being America’s number one brew with a market share of more than 13 percent.
The Harvard graduate stated that it was essential that the brand attract more female and younger drinkers because otherwise ‘there will be no future for Bud Light.’
The paper’s struggle with trans and slavery issues has created deep divisions
For so many of its 200 years it has portrayed itself as the voice of liberal Britain, a pulpit of high moral thinking and editorial freedom from which others might care to learn. But all is not well in London’s N1. And while no one wants to be on the wrong side of history, The Guardian is “tying itself up in knots” as it tries to avoid that fate.
First, it was Hershey’s, then it was Bud Light, and now, Jack Daniel’s is the latest brand this year to be facing a boycott over claims the company has “gone woke.”
Social media users have taken offense to the whiskey brewer’s “small town, big pride” campaign in which it teamed up with drag queens from Ru Paul’s Drag Race—despite the campaign being nearly two years old.
Nike has sparked fury after starting a partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney – who posed for a series of pictures in leggings and a sports bra.
Mulvaney, 26, posted videos and photos on her Instagram page Tuesday, tagging Nike Women while linking to the products’ pages.
Furious feminists, and some men, slammed the decision by Nike to give the coveted sponsorships for a prominent women’s line to a transgender woman.
Kid Rock has posted of video of himself shooting up cases of Bud Light in an apparent response to the beer brand’s hiring of transgender social media personality Dylan Mulvaney as its newest spokesperson.
On August 26, 2020, when the Milwaukee Bucks refused to play their game following the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the NHL was the lone professional sports league to go forward with its schedule. The following day, however, a newly formed group led by prominent black NHL players called the Hockey Diversity Alliance spearheaded the postponement of games for the next two nights. And in the aftermath of the incident, the NHL launched a series of initiatives designed to, as Morning Consult put it, “combat racism and make the traditionally white sport more inclusive.”
Last year it was leaked that Latoya Raveneau, an executive producer at Disney, had bragged that her team had implemented a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” and was regularly “adding queerness” to children’s programming.
Woke Silicon Valley Bank donated over $73 million to Black Lives Matter-related social justice groups in the years before it collapsed, while failed Signature Bank gave $850,000, it has been revealed.
A database by the conservative Claremont Institute shows that SVB donated around $73,450,000 to the movement and other social justice causes as it worked to increase its Environmental, Social and Governance rating.
Meanwhile, New York-based Signature Bank donated a total of $850,000 over several years before it failed on Sunday.
Do not get Dorian Deome started on the bureaucrats investing his life savings in this trendy, newfangled thing they call environmental, social, governance, or ESG, funds. He blows up. Which is dangerous. Deome suffered a massive heart attack in May 2020 at age 38.
“My heart literally skips a beat when I think about how my money is used to fund actual racism,” he told me.
He meant diversity, equity, and inclusion training programs; racially calibrated corporate boards; the obsession in human resources departments with elevating marginalized voices, often at the expense of white men like Deome—and all the other things that make for ESG compliance.
Happy International Women’s Day! A few years ago, this jaunty greeting would have left me snorting with derision. I pooh-poohed the very notion of International Women’s Day. Back then, it seemed that women were smashing glass ceilings, narrowing the gender pay gap and overtaking men when it came to education and entering the professions. Set against all these successes, a day to celebrate women seemed like either an excuse to wallow in long-lost victimhood or a naff marketing campaign
Hours after Hershey’s Canadian brand launched its HER for SHE campaign in conjunction with International Women’s Day, social media activists began calling for a boycott of the iconic chocolate maker.
The ad features trans woman and activist Fae Johnstone as one of the five faces of the campaign. Johnstone and five others will adorn five different wrappers during March.
Disney officially has a “new sheriff in town” after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday that placed the Mouse House’s special tax district under state control.
The Republican-backed bill rebrands Disney’s self-governed Reedy Creek Improvement District as the “Central Florida Tourism Oversight District.”
DeSantis gained the authority to appoint the members of a five-person oversight board for the special district — a power that Disney formerly held.
The culture war is no place for cartoons and comic heroes
In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror set out to do what no other Ottoman Sultan had done: capture Constantinople. The Byzantine Empire’s capital had been besieged numerous times, but had only been captured once before by Christians during the Fourth Crusade of 1204. For days, the Turks threw everything at the city, but the heavily fortified walls would not fall. Meanwhile, a strange debate was taking place inside the imperial city. Byzantine senators and philosophers were engaged in a heated debate: not about how to shore up their defences and protect the public, but something rather different: the sex of angels. Were they male or female? A few days later, the walls were breached and everyone was killed, effectively marking the end of the last remains of the Roman empire.
Britons ‘cynical’ and ‘tired’ of attempts by big business to force political views on employees and customers, according to Policy Exchange
Corporate culture wars are making the public “hostile”, companies have been warned as a major piece of research is launched into the rise of “woke” in the workplace.
Britons are “cynical” and “tired” of attempts by big business to force political views on employees and customers, according to Policy Exchange.
New polling by the think-tank reveals that the majority of the public (58 per cent) reject the suggestion that companies should be able to demand that their employees declare gender pronouns.
