Ben & Jerry’s calls on Americans
to ‘dismantle white supremacy’
in forceful statement
CNN,
by
Hanna Ziady
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/3/2020 4:51:24 PM
Let there be no doubt where Ben & Jerry’s stands. The ice cream maker has called on Americans to "dismantle white supremacy" and "grapple with the sins of our past" as nationwide protests against racial injustice stretch into their eighth day. In a forceful statement posted to the company's website late on Tuesday, Ben & Jerry's describes the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of a white police officer as the result of "inhumane police brutality that is perpetuated by a culture of white supremacy."(Snip) Companies including Nike, Netflix, Twitter, Disney, Facebook and Intel have condemned racism and injustice in recent days.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rather Read 6/3/2020 4:53:33 PM (No. 431194)
I haven't ever bought their ice cream. Graeter's ice cream is the best ever and they don't preach at me.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MFM 6/3/2020 4:54:18 PM (No. 431196)
Your ice cream stinks and you two make me vomit..
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/3/2020 4:55:37 PM (No. 431198)
I have to think they are so stupid they think they can say this idiotic thing and continue to make vanilla ice cream from now on...and what about every other flavor/color except dark chocolate? Way to go Boys!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 6/3/2020 4:58:24 PM (No. 431207)
Blue Bell Rocky Road is better and you can enjoy it without a political message. But I'm sure Nancy devours B&J by the gallon.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
volksford 6/3/2020 4:58:43 PM (No. 431209)
Make your damn ice cream and stick your virtue signaling where the sun don't shine. We need info from these two pasty white chumps in extremely white Vermont like a case of Covid. Too bad Antifa isn't around to dismantle your ice cream business.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/3/2020 5:00:19 PM (No. 431213)
We've seen that cops won't respond, and some cities won't even lock rioters up. I suggest those of us in 'white supremacist' groups protest at all the markets that sell B&J products. Those freezers all have glass doors.
You'll see how fast the media responds!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 6/3/2020 5:05:32 PM (No. 431227)
Hey B&J why don't you step up and pay reparations to black people for slavery by giving every black person that comes into your stores free ice cream for life and do your part to dismantle the whiteness of your company.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Avanti1 6/3/2020 5:08:04 PM (No. 431231)
OP has valid points that, unfortunately, are not widely disseminated.
Instead of rehashing the past history of America, we should be focused on building a future where everyone lives up to their full potential and flourishes. Doing so requires both sides putting aside hatred and bigotry in favor of engaging in an open, honest discussion. Both sides should offer their suggestions and actually listen to each other. Each suggestion should be subject to critical analysis by all participants.
I fear that the current culture in America may have passed the point where such an open, honest, logical discussion is possible. I hope my fears are unwarranted and await being proven wrong.
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2 clowns acting clownish... I'm shocked!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
HPmatt 6/3/2020 5:09:15 PM (No. 431234)
Move your ice cream factory and you residence to Miississippi first.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
edgar 6/3/2020 5:09:50 PM (No. 431235)
Wonder what the recipe will be for their 'White Guilt' ice cream flavor.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DARling 6/3/2020 5:14:05 PM (No. 431239)
So many who are not into religion have taken up preaching. They need to leave it to the professionals.
Ben and Jerry's is so overpriced, I would probably avoid it even if the honchos didn't annoy me with their virtue signaling.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
TJ54 6/3/2020 5:14:32 PM (No. 431240)
Their ice cream is as lousy as their politics
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/3/2020 5:18:34 PM (No. 431242)
I do not know what white supremacy is, or what B&J's wants to change specifically. Also, I do not know what any of this has to do with anything that has been happening, which has been nothing more that the 5th coup attempt against Trump, who is the symbol for all those that support him.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
raspberry 6/3/2020 5:22:06 PM (No. 431251)
This is another reason never to try their fatty, unhealthy ice cream.
I will look for an all chocolate ice cream product, no other flavor please.
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Whenever I see something like this I am reminded of how my company tells us to set goals:
SMART
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Relevant
Time related (when can the goal be expected to be achieved?)
I never seem to see that in these in the calls from liberals to "do something" (or from anyone else who is insisting that we have to "do something").
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
marbles 6/3/2020 5:23:13 PM (No. 431253)
These two guilt obsessed pearl clutching twits who made their money because of the greatness of America can give all their money away to assuage their consciences. Do not speak for me, or anyone else. Generations ago in another country , my people were slaves and routinely murdered. So, shut up and get over yourselves.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 6/3/2020 5:23:24 PM (No. 431254)
Ben & who?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DeplorableVet 6/3/2020 5:24:58 PM (No. 431256)
How about we quietly dismantle their product displays in every store that we find them. Just a couple of containers accidentally knocked on the floor or left out on other shelves by a couple of dozen people should do it.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/3/2020 5:26:02 PM (No. 431258)
Americans call upon fellow citizens to dismantle Ben and Jerry places. Call 1-800-AXE-4SEL
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Avikingman 6/3/2020 5:26:02 PM (No. 431259)
Had to look it up, but Ben & Jerry's is owned by the Dutch company Unilever since 2000.
I suspect the two twits are in on this, but lectures from a Dutch company we can do without.
More products to not buy too.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Hermoine 6/3/2020 5:27:23 PM (No. 431262)
I don't think these morons even own Ben & Jerry's anymore, it's a subsidiary of Unilever. However, I do think it is autonomously operated. Regardless, if these guys want to end white supremacy, why don't they hand over the keys to their kingdom to a few random African-Americans...or better yet, keep working at B&J and just give all their money to black community. They can be modern-day slaves to pay for the sins of the past.
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All the ultra-leftists are pitching in to boost Biden past Trump in November. Too bad they picked a walking zombie for their candidate.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 6/3/2020 5:42:39 PM (No. 431284)
You do that while I continue to never buy any thing of your's ever, OK?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
SALady 6/3/2020 5:43:04 PM (No. 431285)
OK, you two start. Turn over ownership of your company, as well as all profits you made in the last 20 years and your mc-mansions, to black people, and go live in the inner city on welfare. Show us that you are willing to walk the walk, instead of just preaching to everyone and then going home to your gated mansions.
Rich limousine lie-berals are the biggest hypocrites in the universe!!!!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 6/3/2020 5:44:32 PM (No. 431286)
Overpriced crappy product, run by two old white libs in Vermont. All the white supremacy in this country is squarely in the ranks of the Democrats. And it always has been, and always will be.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
skacmar 6/3/2020 5:50:46 PM (No. 431290)
Ben and Jerry's want to make a real statement???? Announce that they are immediately moving all of their ice cream manufacturing facilities from 94.2% white / 1.4% black Vermont and move to Detroit with 78.6% black population or Memphis 64.2% black, or Baltimore 62.5% black. Put you money (and factory) where your mouth and bleeding heart is.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 6/3/2020 5:57:32 PM (No. 431297)
I would like to see these two grapple. Show us how it's done.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
DVC 6/3/2020 5:58:45 PM (No. 431302)
And I will continue my 40 year boycott of these communist puke's products, and continue to ignore their obnoxious, untrue blatherings.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/3/2020 6:33:14 PM (No. 431337)
Let's give everyone in the country an equal chance to succeed. End affirmative action, racial set asides, special classes, Obama phones and any and all government freebies. Let the gimmees make it like every other American. Scrap Medicare and college loans. End aid to all black colleges, in fact, end all black colleges as racist. I can wait.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/3/2020 6:38:03 PM (No. 431345)
Say the two guys who built their gazillion dollar business in a state which has the second lowest black population in the country. (Vermont, second only to Wyoming in its whiteness) Talk about your white privilege!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/3/2020 6:52:17 PM (No. 431358)
Sorry for the second post, but I have to ask, "Why would anyone eat their overpriced, bad ice cream when you can get Blue Belle?" They're like the Starbucks of ice cream, overpriced and not that good.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
BevNJ 6/3/2020 7:01:39 PM (No. 431368)
Yes, #1! Graeter’s mocha chocolate chip! Especially good after some Skyline chili.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
vrb8m 6/3/2020 7:13:31 PM (No. 431378)
I wouldn't eat that swill if you paid me.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
cThree 6/3/2020 7:17:01 PM (No. 431385)
It amuses me that these two hugely successful capitalists imagine they will be safe from their proposed pogrom.
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After their comments (of a company they sold to the Dutch), I would be afraid to eat any of their products. Someone probably licked them or spit in the containers. Uggh!
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
padiva 6/3/2020 7:36:32 PM (No. 431399)
Does anyone have any suggestions for the names for the new flavors?
Mighty Michelle Marshmallow
Chunky Red Brick
Mellowed Out Malia (additional charge for extra mellow)
Barless Bicycle Barak
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
JayD 6/3/2020 7:41:27 PM (No. 431409)
B&J, you sell ice cream. I really dislike getting a side of politics with any product that I buy, so I will never buy your ice cream.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
skacmar 6/3/2020 7:44:44 PM (No. 431412)
Besides the mythical Wakanda of Marvel movies where Black Supremacy appears to be good and applauded, name one black ruled / run country (that is not mythical) where the country is run successfully, without warlords, poverty, and despair. In Mythical Wakanda, Blacks honored science, knowledge, family, respect for authority / government, and education. This is something that blacks DO NOT emulate in the USA. It appears that blacks who honor those principals are characterized as acting too WHITE for wanting to better themselves and their lives. Maybe that is part of the problem with why blacks have a problem doing better in the US today! Not white supremacy, but fear of acting too white.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
or gate 6/3/2020 7:47:54 PM (No. 431413)
Those clowns need to stick to making Ice Cream.
I do not think Iḿ better than anyone.
If you rob and steal you should sit in the back of the room near the bathroom door.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
melman 6/3/2020 8:01:29 PM (No. 431421)
Havent bought their ice cream for years.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 6/3/2020 8:07:33 PM (No. 431428)
Have not touched their product in at least 20 years. They turned me off as a customer a long time ago. The ice cream I can get locally is so much better and I support businesses and jobs. If I want gourmet, I can make it myself.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 6/3/2020 8:09:03 PM (No. 431430)
Thank you previous commenter, Blue Bell cherry is my only out of state ice cream I will buy. That and Magnum Bars. Blue Bell ice cream is pretty good.
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Ben & Jerry's isn't even American owned. It hasn't been since they sold out to Dutch conglomerate Unilever in 2000.
So stop preaching at me. Your company stinks to high heaven.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Socio 6/3/2020 8:20:10 PM (No. 431439)
I call on Americans to dismantle the Democrat party in doing so our sins of the past will be reckoned with and redressed!
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 6/3/2020 8:22:39 PM (No. 431441)
Dismantle totalitarian socialism.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
swarfer 6/3/2020 8:29:58 PM (No. 431449)
They are obviously not serious otherwise they would be offering free ice cream to the rioters and cold storage for all the corpses.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/3/2020 8:44:50 PM (No. 431463)
How many black employees do you have in Vermont?
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
hershey 6/3/2020 9:35:53 PM (No. 431503)
Never bought their liberal crap and never will...they can go down the terlit for all I care...and take Starbucks and Target with you.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
Nimby 6/3/2020 9:36:17 PM (No. 431504)
Who eats their junk anyway?
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Maybe all the white people should just disappear.
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Why don't we dismantle Ben and Jerry's? I like that much better. After spending trillions of taxpayer money on welfare, healthcare, housing, education, and giving them job preferential treatment, all we have done is diminish white people and brought our society down.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
CallMeHank 6/3/2020 10:39:44 PM (No. 431544)
So from Ben & Jerry's there will be no more vanilla in any form?
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/3/2020 11:03:04 PM (No. 431556)
Blacks make up 10% ... so ice cream boys, go to South Africa and make the case that the 10% whites there get to run the country....
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
bobn.t 6/3/2020 11:04:48 PM (No. 431559)
Dusmantle B&J tonight
Break the glass, then follow the thugs
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
Tet Vet 68 6/3/2020 11:14:24 PM (No. 431569)
Let's dismantle Ben & Jerry's instead
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
red1066 6/3/2020 11:33:59 PM (No. 431590)
As soon one can point to and prove an example of white supremacy then go for it.
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Just how many blacks do they think buy B&Js ? Trying to remember if I ever tried their ice cream. Perhaps they want to cover their bases in case rioters come to their plant.
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Little trivia: I was the winner of the “name an ice cream for Obama win” poll on the Ben and Jerry’s website.
The deleted my proposed name the night I won handily. No explanation.
The actual winning name?
S’more GubMint
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Reply 60 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/4/2020 12:18:17 AM (No. 431622)
They should ban vanilla ice cream and just feature chocolate ice cream, that will show the White Supremacists!
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
SeaAl 6/4/2020 12:59:59 AM (No. 431636)
Dear Mr. Ben
Dear Mr. Jerry
You first. I’ll wait.
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Reply 62 - Posted by:
NYbob 6/4/2020 1:18:55 AM (No. 431639)
Why on Earth would someone pay attention to a lecture on moral behavior from some twits at an ICE CREAM company? I suppose someone on our local highway crew might have an interest in flying, but they would not be the go to source for information about flying lessons or which aircraft to consider buying. Some breathtakingly stupid liberals stumble upon the idea that less air in ice cream might be popular and they make some money. NOW they have nothing to do but pontificate about proper social order? Get stuffed you ego maniacs.
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Reply 63 - Posted by:
A.I. 6/4/2020 3:12:32 AM (No. 431678)
Starting today, Tom & Jerry will stop selling vanilla ice cream.
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Reply 64 - Posted by:
Trigger2 6/4/2020 3:48:42 AM (No. 431691)
I dismantled my superiority by not buying Ben & Jerry's ice cream anymore. I refuse to spend my money on black supremacy.
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Reply 65 - Posted by:
franq 6/4/2020 6:12:19 AM (No. 431732)
Those two need to get out more.
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Reply 66 - Posted by:
Jebediah 6/4/2020 8:49:46 AM (No. 431910)
No matter the flavor or the wonderful sale, I NEVER buy Ben & Jerrys, nor do I EVER buy Nikes!!!!!!!
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Comments:
What country on Earth has done more to boost the well-being of Africans than the USA? Meanwhile, there are more Africans enslaved in Africa right now than there ever were in the United States, and countries like Zimbabwe and South Africa openly and violently target white people as a matter of official government policy, versus the actions of one cop in a liberal city who perhaps crossed the line when trying to apprehend a repeat felon who was overdosing on drugs.