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Could Ben and Jerry’s go down like Bud light, or is their ice cream too darn delicious?
(lemmyunchained.net)
It seems Ben and Jerry's may be next in the firing line after they made waves with a provocative 4th of July tweet claiming the US is on stolen Indigenous land. Could we witness a downturn similar to Bud Light?
Or is their irresistibly good ice cream strong enough to keep their ship afloat?
Edit: Side note - in the absence of B&J, what ice cream are you turning to? I’m in AUS. So B&J was a game changer. Not anything else like it that I’m aware of.
I mean, it’s technically the truth. Unless you consider that the land was bought with a bunch of blankets. Anyway so what’s your favorite B&J flavor?
Many "indigenous" people stole land from other " indigenous" people before Britain, France, and Spain stole the country from the indigenous people. The US took the land from Britain by war. It got the land from Spain and France through war/purchase.
That's a very compressed 400 year history, so some facts are more nuanced, but that's my point about saying the land was stolen. Every country was "stolen" from someone else sometime in history either through war or purchase.
How many of those forcibly displaced and nearly wiped out the previous "owners"?
Not to start a debate, but how many civilizations did the same before? I don't see many Babylonians around.
Not to say that doing it makes it ok, but just because we have written history of some civilizations and not others should be taken into account.