We’ve made sport of Ben & Jerry’s for years, with this past week’s foolishness offering up a cornucopia of opportunities for ridicule. In classic commie fashion, Limousine Libs Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield suggested “America” give back stolen land™, just not their stolen land.
B&J no longer own the company, but they get to run a board of directors who cough up progressive hairballs on the brand’s social accounts and pretend it is social justice advocacy. The anti-Jewish Jews took July 4 as an opportunity to show more ignorance than usual. They’ve since been mocked and boycotted, their parent company has lost two billion in market share in just a few days, and now an Abenaki chief has added to the merriment.
Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation, which is descended from the nation that once controlled parts of modern-day Vermont, told Newsweek in a recent interview that the nation has always been “interested in reclaiming the stewardship of our lands.” …
However, the chief told Newsweek that, despite the ice cream company’s virtue signaling, the tribe “has not been approached in regards to any land back opportunities from Ben & Jerry’s.”
That’s the thing about virtue signaling. That’s all it is. No one in Ben & Jerry’s social justice star chamber is giving up their land, transportation options, or security if they have it. But they feel very deeply about someone else sacrificing in the name of their crusade. It is the social justice equivalent of the Mullahs that preach radicalism; put on this bomb vest and blow something up in the name of Allah while we watch.
The 2020 Summer of Love BLM riots were a great example of this. Mostly peaceful protesters burned out black-owned businesses terrorizing the locals. White liberals demanded we all donate to what turned out to be cash-for mansions for anti-Semites triad. Local Dems sacrificed local police forces to this false god, and the black community was further harmed and continues to suffer. The only Black Lives that Mattered were its board members who got rich on corporate donations.
Cohen and Greenfield are cut from the same progressive cloth. Their ideological agenda would inevitably reduce everyone else into wage slaves at the bottom of a two-class one-party state.
They aren’t giving up their homes or offices. No one on the left is returning anything to anyone. All they do is take, but kudos to Newsweek and Don Stevens for poking them in their ideologically cataract-covered eyes.
“[T]he tribe ‘has not been approached in regards to any land back opportunities from Ben & Jerry’s.'”
Brilliant.