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sutree
11/14/21 4:22:59 PM
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https://twitter.com/benandjerrys/status/1458964448924819460?s=20

Is this the most American tweet of all time? An ice cream company owned by a massive international conglomerate weighing in on a media-frenzy event by injecting racialism where it is irrelevant.

The racial flip-flop doesn't even make sense since everyone involved was the same race.

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Doom_Art
11/14/21 4:24:53 PM
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sutree posted...
An ice cream company owned by a massive international conglomerate
Aren't the owners from like Maine or something

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LordFarquad1312
11/14/21 4:26:00 PM
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Ben & Jerry is based.

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Axiom
11/14/21 4:26:41 PM
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Based Ben and Jerry's
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CyricZ
11/14/21 4:27:04 PM
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sutree posted...
Is this the most American tweet of all time? An ice cream company owned by a massive international conglomerate weighing in on a media-frenzy event by injecting racialism where it is irrelevant.
Have you... heard of Ben & Jerry's before? They've been politically active and left leaning for decades.

The racial flip-flop doesn't even make sense since everyone involved was the same race.
The statement being made is the whole song and dance wouldn't happen if he wasn't white, which bears out.

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sutree
11/14/21 4:27:16 PM
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Doom_Art posted...
Aren't the owners from like Maine or something
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unilever

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Middle hope
11/14/21 4:29:18 PM
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They have always been woke but this is absurd. They really need to touch some grass.

They use the same dumbass, deflecting strawman arguments as your average gfaqs user.

The Kenosha Kid should stoop to their level about them peddling diabetes to the poor and disenfranchised that they care so much about. Make it real sappy and nonsensical

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Temporal
11/14/21 4:29:53 PM
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What's this got to do with ice cream.
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Blue_Inigo
11/14/21 4:30:01 PM
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LordFarquad1312 posted...
Ben & Jerry is based.

Axiom posted...
Based Ben and Jerry's


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LordFarquad1312
11/14/21 4:30:20 PM
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Middle hope posted...
They have always been woke but this is absurd. They really need to touch some grass.

They use the same dumbass, deflecting strawman arguments as your average gfaqs user.

The Kenosha Kid should stoop to their level about them peddling diabetes to the poor and disenfranchised that they care so much about. Make it real sappy and nonsensical
Tag checks out

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J E S U S
11/14/21 4:30:32 PM
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I for one would like to hear what haagen dazs has to say on the matter

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Medussa
11/14/21 4:30:58 PM
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what trial? the cops he walked past would have dropped him the second they saw his weapon.

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dioxxys
11/14/21 4:34:17 PM
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Ben & Jerry trying to start a race war
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TheVipaGTS
11/14/21 4:34:53 PM
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Middle hope posted...
They have always been woke but this is absurd. They really need to touch some grass.

They use the same dumbass, deflecting strawman arguments as your average gfaqs user.

The Kenosha Kid should stoop to their level about them peddling diabetes to the poor and disenfranchised that they care so much about. Make it real sappy and nonsensical
stop being so triggered its just a tweet.

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limp-bizkit-89
11/14/21 4:35:23 PM
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Temporal posted...
What's this got to do with ice cream.

whats Biden got to do with nascar?

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codey
11/14/21 4:37:16 PM
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Middle hope posted...
The Kenosha Kid should stoop to their level about them peddling diabetes to the poor and disenfranchised that they care so much about. Make it real sappy and nonsensical

Ben and Jerry's isn't really a product that targets the poor and disenfranchised.

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The Popo
11/14/21 4:37:41 PM
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J E S U S posted...
I for one would like to hear what haagen dazs has to say on the matter

https://mobile.twitter.com/HaagenDazs_US/status/1458845240975101957

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CyricZ
11/14/21 4:37:59 PM
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codey posted...
Ben and Jerry's isn't really a product that targets the poor and disenfranchised.
This just in. Poor people never eat ice cream.

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TheVipaGTS
11/14/21 4:39:12 PM
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PyroBlade1985 posted...
They don't?
well they don't eat Ben and Jerry's. They're buying those giant generic gallon tubs.

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Background_Guy
11/14/21 4:40:20 PM
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Based ice cream
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codey
11/14/21 4:41:06 PM
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CyricZ posted...
This just in. Poor people never eat ice cream.

Ben and Jerry's is an expensive brand, it targets middle class and up demographics.

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Fam_Fam
11/14/21 4:41:36 PM
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TheVipaGTS posted...
well they don't eat Ben and Jerry's. They're buying those giant generic gallon tubs.

lol, if you actually believe this. you think that poor people don't buy name brand products, as everyone else does?
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ledbowman
11/14/21 4:42:27 PM
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ben and jerry need to cross state line

at west california

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TheVipaGTS
11/14/21 4:43:14 PM
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Fam_Fam posted...
lol, if you actually believe this. you think that poor people don't buy name brand products, as everyone else does?
Yes. Because many will splurge on expensive ice cream every now and then, but in the long run will tend to save with the bargain ones. Don't try to turn this into an argument.

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RustyFerret
11/14/21 4:43:34 PM
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sutree posted...


The racial flip-flop doesn't even make sense since everyone involved was the same race
If it was race swapped it wouldn't even make news cycles.
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codey
11/14/21 4:45:57 PM
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TheVipaGTS posted...
Yes. Because many will splurge on expensive ice cream every now and then, but in the long run will tend to save with the bargain ones. Don't try to turn this into an argument.

It's not even bargain brands people go for instead. A pint of Ben and Jerry's is nearly as expensive as a half gallon of Blue Bell, the biggest and most popular brand in Texas.

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Middle hope
11/14/21 4:46:25 PM
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Fam_Fam posted...
lol, if you actually believe this. you think that poor people don't buy name brand products, as everyone else does?
Hes talking from a place of privilege. They tend to have this warped way of thinking about those less fortunate than them.

A common stereotype they belive in is "the poors" only get the most bland and generic things and never indulge in something considered "nice".

Its a fucked up and out of touch line of thinking

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sutree
11/14/21 4:46:34 PM
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RustyFerret posted...
If it was race swapped it wouldn't even make news cycles.
Right, but that's a condemnation of the race-obsessed media rather than the legal system.

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Axiom
11/14/21 4:47:53 PM
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Fam_Fam posted...
lol, if you actually believe this. you think that poor people don't buy name brand products, as everyone else does?
Ben and Jerrys costs like 5 for a small carton. Shit I know middle class people that won't even touch it
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ultimate reaver
11/14/21 4:48:57 PM
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ben and jerrys has been politically active since the 80s, pay attention if you're gonna pretend to care about this stupid shit


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ledbowman
11/14/21 4:49:29 PM
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corporations appropriating the language of activism is so cynical and like the first responses are people yassing them and saying they will buy their product

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CyricZ
11/14/21 4:49:43 PM
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sutree posted...
Right, but that's a condemnation of the race-obsessed media rather than the legal system.
No it's a condemnation of the racism embedded in our justice system.

Of which we see example after example over and over again.

EDIT: Oh and in case the goldfish memory is setting in, let's remember that the Rittenhouse killings happened during BLM protests, so saying there's no racial element to this is either naive or just plain forgetful.

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ledbowman
11/14/21 5:01:09 PM
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they couldn't even bother to not say it like a fucking ai. ok i'm done

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Cheater87
11/14/21 5:02:39 PM
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Time to buy more of their ice cream.

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CommonJoe
11/14/21 5:05:01 PM
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sutree posted...
The racial flip-flop doesn't even make sense since everyone involved was the same race.

OP thinks this changes anything.

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Payzmaykr
11/14/21 5:05:09 PM
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CyricZ posted...
This just in. Poor people never eat ice cream.
They do, but Ben and Jerrys is obscenely expensive compared to most other brands. Poor people probably eat store brand or Blue Bell (which is better and less than half the price).

The punk needs to be in prison, though. Theres literally no excuse for the fact that he intentionally went there knowing what was going on with a high capacity rifle

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WeeWeiWiiWie
11/14/21 5:09:38 PM
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Payzmaykr posted...
They do, but Ben and Jerrys is obscenely expensive compared to most other brands. Poor people probably eat store brand or Blue Bell (which is better and less than half the price).

As a former very very poor person, we often buy things occasionally that are outside our means because we are humans and need to feel good sometimes too.

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Cheater87
11/14/21 5:16:44 PM
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I only buy Ben and Jerry when it is on sale.

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RustyFerret
11/14/21 5:16:56 PM
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sutree posted...
Right, but that's a condemnation of the race-obsessed media rather than the legal system.
Yes. Nobody was complaining about the court systems being racist when Dylan Roof was justifiably given 9 life sentences.
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Broseph_Stalin
11/14/21 5:19:16 PM
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Silence, brand.
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CyricZ
11/14/21 5:26:07 PM
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One's gotta be in a smooth-brain mood to say "You don't complain when the justice system actually convicts killers!"

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InfinityMonster
11/14/21 5:27:38 PM
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The justice system is definitely extremely racist.

This isn't a case of it. The prosecution never had anything and everybody that's not blind can see it. You could do this case 10 times with 10 different prosecutions and judges, and the outcome will be the same.

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viewmaster_pi
11/14/21 5:30:30 PM
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anyway i'll have the cherry garcia

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ViewtifulGrave
11/14/21 5:32:30 PM
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Middle hope posted...
The Kenosha Kid should stoop to their level about them peddling diabetes to the poor and disenfranchised that they care so much about. Make it real sappy and nonsensical
lol wut???

People choose to buy B&J, just like Kyle choose to illegally obtain a gun and cross state lines.

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Doe
11/14/21 5:32:57 PM
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I recently learned about Unilever in my Sustainable Enterprise class and it blew my mind. They've captured all these brands and cultivated them to be eco conscious basically and you never realize they're all controlled by one machiavellian giant. Definitely don't look at B&J's the same way anymore.

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codey
11/14/21 6:08:47 PM
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WeeWeiWiiWie posted...
As a former very very poor person, we often buy things occasionally that are outside our means because we are humans and need to feel good sometimes too.

As a current very poor person, I get that, I do the same, but you have to realize that we are not the target demographic for upscale brands like B&J. Brands don't target people that occasionally buy their buy their product, they target people that will buy their target all the time.

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AlBundy33
11/14/21 6:16:30 PM
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CyricZ posted...
Have you... heard of Ben & Jerry's before? They've been politically active and left leaning for decades.

The statement being made is the whole song and dance wouldn't happen if he wasn't white, which bears out.


@CyricZ I would say Ben and Jerrys need to keep their nose out of politics and make ice cream, but they arent even good at that


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