Another company stands up to the cancel culture mob

[mystery-ak]

July 25, 2020
Another company stands up to the cancel culture mob
By Andrea Widburg

For quite a while now, we’ve been treated to the demoralizing and unedifying spectacle of media outlets and corporations bowing down to the mob’s cancel culture demands. Authors have been banned, editors fired, Trader Joe’s products renamed, statues dragged down, and much more, merely because spoiled, entitled, college-educated snowflakes, secure in their victimhood, have said that words or products hurt their feelings and made them feel “unsafe.”

Thankfully, after the first shock of this Maoist attack on American institutions, some are beginning to recover their backbone. First, Goya Foods stood up to the mob. Then Red Bull refused to back down. And now the Wall Street Journal has declined to allow its baby journalists to hold its editorial page hostage.

The back story to the Journal's courageous stand is that 280 employees in the News department signed a letter to the publisher, Almar Latour, criticizing the paper’s opinion pages. The letter is a marvel of Orwellian writing. It opens by expressing support for the First Amendment and then spends three pages explaining why the paper’s opinion page needs to stifle itself because it publishes material with which the letter’s signatories disagree. Not coincidentally, they invariably disagree with conservative content.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/another_company_stands_up_to_the_cancel_culture_mob.html

[PeteS in CA]

Update on Trader Joe's:

Trader Joe’s Decides Against Caving To The Mobs, Will Not Change Packaging

https://www.redstate.com/kiradavis/2020/07/29/883985/

As Fox News reports, Trader Joe’s has a unique marketing model in which all their products bear their name. International products are often labeled with a Trader Joe’s name that reflects the culture of where the product is being sold. Trader Giotto, Trader Ming, Trader Jose´’s, etc. It should be noted that Trader Joe’s has not indicated any of their international customers are dissatisfied with the labeling at all, but the company responded in July saying they would begin the rebranding process for their international lines.

However, now it looks as though the grocery chain has backed off from their decision, instead saying they only plan to pull certain products that aren’t selling well while indicating there will be no labeling changes.