These Four Companies Claim to Support BLM. They Support White Nationalist Tucker Carlson’s Fox News Program.
This is from today’s Popular Info newsletter:
Last week, Carlson advised viewers that they are not “required to be upset” about George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer, especially if they have “never even been to Minneapolis.”
Last month, as the protests began, he described them as an “ancient battle between those who have a stake in society and would like to preserve it and those who don’t and seek to destroy it.” Carlson later described the conflict as between “thugs” and “normal people.”
None of this is out of character for Carlson. He has a long history of using white nationalist rhetoric. Last August, Carlson said the idea that white supremacy is a problem in America is a “hoax” and a “conspiracy theory.” In 2018, Carlson said that immigrants were making America “poorer, and dirtier, and more divided.” In 2017, Carlson described Obama as “vulgar” because he “vacationed with rappers.” The same year, he promoted Gab, a social media site that caters to white nationalists. In 2015, Carlson attacked Stephen Colbert for wearing a “Black Lives Matter” wristband, saying it meant Colbert believed “you divide people on the basis of their skin color and say, ‘This one group of people’s lives matter.’”
Tucker Carlson is a despicable racist and bigot. These four companies claim to support Black Lives Matter (and have made a HUGE deal about their alleged support), yet they continue to sponsor this reprehensible racist’s show:
* Papa John’s Pizza (of course)
* Disney (unsurprising, but still disgusting) SEE UPDATE!
* Vari (office furniture company I didn’t know existed before today)
* Johnson & Jonhson (all lives matter, or something)
Papa John’s is a lost cause. That guy is the patron saint of shitty right-wing pieces of shit, an unrepentant right-wing Trumpist. Fuck that guy and his garbage “food” forever.
Disney is likely to respond to sustained and overwhelming public outcry, and getting Disney to drop its support for a white nationalist would go a long way toward pressuring other sponsors to drop their support.
Vari and Johnson & Johnson are easy for me to boycott. Maybe they are for you, too?
If you care about this sort of thing, you can vote with your wallet. You deserve better than that Papa John’s garbage. Get your pizza delivered from a local place. Finding alternatives to Johnson & Johnson should be pretty easy in any drugstore. Disney is really tough, because let’s be honest: theme parks are great, and Disney+ is pretty awesome. But I will write letters, and so should you. Vari doesn’t exist in my life so I’m just going to go ahead and put that company on generic blast for supporting a racist bigot. If you handle purchasing for your company, maybe you can encourage your bosses to buy office furniture from some other company.
But all of us can write letters, tag on social media, and let the people who make the decisions at these companies know that we are watching, and we will not support them as long as they continue to sponsor a white nationalist.
HOLY SHIT YALL while I was writing this, Disney pulled their support!! One down, three to do. We can do this!
