Hello i'm Daisy Cousens welcome to this week in social justice
this week's biggest and baddest social justice fails include why goodyear tire
company suffered a diversity training foot in
mouth the allegedly offensive matilda themed mug and ensuing histrionic
response from the perpetually outraged and depending on how long i feel like
talking about the first two topics we may even have time for a bonus topic
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many of you will have read the wonderful roald dahl children's book matilda at
some point in your life the story has beguiled
audiences for decades and has been adapted not just into a movie but into a
tony award-winning musical by tim minchin
so needless to say there is a hell of a lot of merchandise out there bearing the
matilda brand and certainly uk department store juggernaut sainsbury's
has found itself the punching bag of sjws
for releasing a piece of matilda themed merchandise that is
allegedly offensive but before i tell you just how offensive
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like it so the thing what sent the sjws off in
relation to roald dahl's beloved matilda was a mug of all things
upon this mug was an illustration by quentin blake accompanied by a
motivational quote from the book a brilliant idea hitter
now that's part of a larger quote when at
last the germ of a brilliant idea hit her she began to expand on it and lay
her plan with the same kind of care the duke of wellington had done
before the battle of waterloo suitably poetic
beautifully constructed full of whimsy and fire and very characteristic of
roald dahl so the abbreviation seems inoffensive
enough and conjures up images of ideas and imagination
bubbling under the surface of a childlike mind at least
that's how it appears to normal people who don't hate
fun i regret to inform you that somehow the feminists got hold of this and
decided that rather than simply a nice quote from a classic book
on a pretty mug this was a dangerous symbol that
condoned and could potentially encourage of all things domestic violence
why because according to these feminist activists if you look really hard and i
guess maybe squint a little the phrase a brilliant idea hitter can
be read a brilliant idea hit her
no you're not imagining things and yes this really did happen
there are actually people out there who hate nice things so much that they would
project this feminist narrative onto a mug
and of course it all began on twitter with this tweet from a scottish mother
and then it just went on from there for goodness sake sainsbury's what the hell
are you playing at it seems you condone violence against women perhaps you need
to remember who spends the most money in your stores
this mug is hugely problematic we are trying to get them to stop selling it
apologize and make a huge donation to violence against women or
girls charities remove this offensive and abusive item
sainsburys why would you support domestic abuse
as if there weren't enough violence against females already someone thought
it would be a top idea to actively promote more via a mug
great move not who on earth a designed this and b
authorized this for sale this is a disgrace a brilliant idea
get rid of these awful mugs and donate to domestic abuse charities
okay so i don't normally like to fob off people i disagree with as
stupid it's a very reductive thing to do and it's the same as a regressive
leftist calling a conservative racist and thinking that wins the
argument but in some cases it is really really hard to come to any
other conclusion and in this case i hate to say it it takes a special breed of
stupid to interpret this mug as somehow
condoning of domestic violence like the mental hoops you have to jump
through in order to get there are just extraordinary and it's not like you even
need to know the quote to understand it it is a very common phrase you know an
idea hit her she was hit by a brilliant idea ideas
just keep hitting her when she's in the zone i mean there is
nothing out of the ordinary about the phrase a brilliant idea hit her
and it wasn't just twitter trolls who got in on this pile on women's groups
jumped in as well including both the english and scottish branches of women's
aid so how did sainsburys react did they
rise above this small but noisy minority which any sensible
company would have done nope they're very disappointingly caved the mugs have
been pulled from the shelves an apology was issued to all the people who were so
terribly offended and they are apparently working with the roald dahl
team to review the design good grief now let me be very very clear
i am in no way making fun of or trivializing domestic abuse not by a
long shot domestic violence is a problem all
over the world for both men and women adults and children and in
the era of coronavirus lockdowns there has been a spike in domestic violence
worldwide it is very very serious which is why stupid campaigns like these
infuriate me because they detract from the overall issue
it's all just self-indulgent social media onanism which serves no other
purpose than to annoy people massive social justice failed to these
feminists and also to sainsburys for caving into them
as we say in my country what a gutless wonder
goodyear tyre company has fallen foul of conservatives after a slide was leaked
from a diversity of training showing at a goodyear plant in topaco kansas
the slide which the employee who leaked it said was presented by an area manager
and that it came out of their corporate office in acron ohio
displayed what symbolism is and isn't acceptable for goodyear workers to wear
or display while on the job as you can see
the acceptable list includes black lives matter and lgbt pride symbols while on
the unacceptable list are blue lives matter all lives matter
maga attire and general political slogans and material
now the casual observer would be forgiven for thinking that goodyear was
very clearly banning a very specific political ideology while condoning
another needless to say the internet and the
media picked it up very very quickly and it soon
went viral roundly condemned by conservatives and
trump supporters donald trump himself even picked up on it tweeting
don't buy goodyear tires they announced a ban on maga hats get better tires for
far less this is what the radical left democrats
do two can play at the same game and we have to start playing it now
now can i just say here i do not at all agree with the fact that trump
effectively called for a boycott of goodyear tires even symbolically i mean
you know how much i love trump i really do but i
don't always agree with everything that he does and this
is one of those times i don't think any elected official should be calling for a
boycott of any workplace particularly at a time like this
when people are losing jobs all over the place if trump were a private citizen
well fine that would be his prerogative but as a public official
least of all the president i don't think it's appropriate for him to be doing
that anyway soon after trump's tweet goodyear
released a statement seemingly mortified at the
impression that the slide had caused the company stated that the
visual in question was not created or distributed by goodyear corporate
nor was it part of a diversity training class
they said that in order to enable a workplace environment free of harassment
or discrimination goodyear asks associates to refrain from
workplace expressions in support of political campaigning for
any candidate or political party as well as
similar forms of advocacy that fall outside the scope of racial justice and
equality issues they also made it clear in their
statement that goodyear is absolutely not anti-police
and that they wholeheartedly support both equity and law enforcement and will
continue to do so hmm while comprehensive the statement
seemed to make not a lot of sense when placed against the very clear graphic
leaked by the goodyear employee especially when coupled with the audio
that was leaked by a top to paker nbc affiliate soon after this statement
on their base covering shirts or wristbands that will be deemed approved
because it complies with zero tolerance stamps however
if any associate wears all blue white live matter shirts or face
cutting coverings that will be not appropriate
the unidentified speaker says the rules were created to
make a better work environment there's rules
now around what you can wear let's try to comply with these so that way
you know everybody feels good in this factory this prompted a statement from
the head honcho himself ceo and president of goodyear richard
kramer he stated that the slide in question was
created by a plant employee to try to explain what is acceptable to wear in
the workplace but that it was not approved or
distributed by goodyear corporate or anyone outside of that particular
facility which is what i suspected had happened
you know it was an individual employee who is possibly a bit of a lefty pushing
this stuff rather than you know head office so to
speak kramer reiterated goodyear's support for law enforcement but
also said that they have clarified their policy to make it clear that associates
can express support for law enforcement through apparel at goodyear facilities
so it seems there was maybe a barrier somewhere along the line to employees
wearing pro cop apparel how interesting credit must be
given here to richard kramer for putting his money where his mouth
is clarifying this policy and not tolerating an anti-police narrative
especially when as he asserted in his statement
goodyear has been providing tyres to to police and fire personnel for over a
hundred years now considering goodyear's assertions
how was this employee in topeka able to justify to himself
that blue lives matter was a political statement and therefore worthy of the
unacceptable category and the black lives matter and lgbt
symbols were purely issues of equity rather than political and
therefore they were acceptable well it's quite
simple really this mindset is characteristic of many
people on the regressive left you know that is
their preferred causes are so important and they are just so
right about everything and so moral that what they believe is totally above
politics and only to do with equality they use
that mentality as a way of shutting down their opposition they frame black lives
matter and lgbt activism as issues of racial or social
justice that transcend politics and anyone who doesn't think so is a
bigot this is absolutely not the case of course
black lives matter and lgbt activism are ideologically driven political movements
propagated by people with very specific far-left political views that they
unashamedly identify with in the case of black lives
matter the founders have admitted that they are
trained marxists and the movement is very specific about
their political goal of overhauling capitalism and instituting
policies based on a quality of outcome rather than equality of
opportunity lgbt activists have a similar mentality
now that has nothing to do with just equity and everything to do with
politics that's why black lives matter tends to
be associated with the left they have a typically and
self-confessedly radical leftist agenda when it comes to economic and social
issues if anything blue lives matter is more to do with
just equities since it is literally about blue lives without the
economic and social policy goals white house press secretary kelly
mcinerney explained this very succinctly in a
recent press conference racial equality racial justice that is okay but not
political speech that's pretty standard across the board right now that's not
that unusual did the president even reach out to goodyear before they
came out and said equity issues as far as i'm concerned blue lives matter is an
equity issue there have been police officers across this country
that have been targeted because they wear the badge look no further than
dallas where five police officers died so black lives matter an organization
whose in their dc branch said black lives
matter means defund the police one of their presidents in new york said
we will burn down the system we all remember in 2015 the yelling of
pigs in a blanket fry them like bacon at a black lives matter rally
is allowed but blue lives matter is not allowed
and i will stand at this podium and say blue lives matter is an equity issue
and and goodyear needs to come out and acknowledge all in all this issue is
very revealing of the holier-than-thou mindset behind many of the masses who
support black lives matter massive social justice failed to the
topic topeka goodyear associate on this one
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