Conservative group Consumers’ Research will ping shoppers about to purchase ‘woke’ products

[WVK]

A conservative nonprofit launched a text alert system this week designed to warn shoppers to avoid products from companies accused of catering to the “woke agenda.”

Consumers’ Research, a Washington, DC-based group poised at the intersection of policy and consumerism, introduced the “Woke Alert” on Friday.

By entering a phone number, conservative-minded shoppers will receive text updates on companies deemed to have strayed too far left in their marketing and other strategies.

“Many corporations are putting progressive activists and their dangerous agendas ahead of customers,” the sign-up page reads.

“They’ll only succeed if we look the other way.”

https://nypost.com/2023/04/14/conservative-group-launches-woke-alerts-for-shoppers/

[Piney]

I buy a lot of Adidas. You don't get more "woke" than that. 

[moonman]

Budweiser went out of business for all their woke nonsense, didn't they? I'm sure this will make a huge impact on those damn woke companies, LIBS PWNED LOL11!!! If anything they should be happy people who sign up for "alerts" like this won't buy their stuff. The less slack-jawed bumpkins seen with your product, the better.

In related news, I hope anyone who signs up for this nonsense likes spam and having their info sold. What am I saying, those types live and die for spam, they'll buy anything they are told. Of course they will like it.

 

Edited May 29 by moonman

[quiXilver]

12 minutes ago, moonman said:

Budweiser went out of business for all their woke nonsense, didn't they?

Is your blood sugar low? 

[+and-then]

35 minutes ago, WVK said:

“Many corporations are putting progressive activists and their dangerous agendas ahead of customers,” the sign-up page reads.

This is another manifestation of the growth toward a parallel economy.  I think it's a healthy thing.  If there are two diametrically opposed groups of people, rather than have companies boycotted and engendering more anger, simply start alternative businesses.  It will take a while but it might just benefit everyone in the long term.  The overall market for any one company will be impacted only to the extent that they target their product to very limited audiences/populations.

[spartan max2]

Must be those cancel culture snowflakes I'm always hearing about 

Edited May 29 by spartan max2

[Gromdor]

It's an interesting idea.  An app that literally tells people what and what not to buy.  Weird that there is no market for apps that show what is made in China.

Another thought struck my mind- Wouldn't this app be illegal in conservative states that passed the "You can't boycott Israel" laws?  What if there is a product made by a "Woke" Israeli company?

[Agent0range]

Stupid people are so easily entertained...

[Agent0range]

36 minutes ago, and-then said:

This is another manifestation of the growth toward a parallel economy.  I think it's a healthy thing.  If there are two diametrically opposed groups of people, rather than have companies boycotted and engendering more anger, simply start alternative businesses.  It will take a while but it might just benefit everyone in the long term.  The overall market for any one company will be impacted only to the extent that they target their product to very limited audiences/populations.

LOL, a year ago these fools were screaming "cancel culture"...not they're just taking it to the extreme.

[spartan max2]

So back when Obama was president there was actually a similar app called "Second vote". It wasent advanced enough to alert you automatically but you could look up the business you were buying from on it and it'd rate it based on its corporate donations 

[lightly]

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

How many woke products can you buy before you lose your status as a conservative? Will they send someone from The Party to seize your little red hat?

[Tatetopa]

1 hour ago, and-then said:

This is another manifestation of the growth toward a parallel economy.  I think it's a healthy thing.  If there are two diametrically opposed groups of people, rather than have companies boycotted and engendering more anger, simply start alternative businesses.  It will take a while but it might just benefit everyone in the long term.  The overall market for any one company will be impacted only to the extent that they target their product to very limited audiences/populations.

Competition is generally a good thing for consumers, if it is real.  One likely outcome might be corporations setting up shadow brands to cater to this demand. They change the label on some of their product to maintain that illusion. In this case, pretty simple, there is  no need to change price, quality, or taste.  In fact, it is probably an opportunity to jack up the price a little and call it a special limited supply.

Real competition would be useful though it probably won't happen.  The danger is the Candace Owens bank model, even Peter Thiele put some money into it.  It was an interesting concept, but they got a crook to run it and the money evaporated. A business has to be sound, not just un-woke.

With the whole parallel economy thing comes another interesting question.  Should the federal government continue to take tax dollars from blue states and redistribute them to red states to help pay for roads, schools, police, and hospitals?  Or should every red state just stand on its own  in a parallel economy?  

Sounds mean I know, but currently we are intertwined on a very deep level.  Buying a different more manly beer is not creating a parallel economy. 

 

[preacherman76]

1 hour ago, spartan max2 said:

Must be those cancel culture snowflakes I'm always hearing about 

This is not cancel culture. Cancel culture is much more malicious then just not buying a product because you don’t support a company’s political beliefs. 
 

Cancel culture seeks to destroy individuals. Calling their jobs, friends, their neighbors, their families to threaten and intimidate. And honestly what did these people think was going to happen?

At first this was supposed to be about protecting peoples civil rights. To live and let live. I personally would never want to see anyone get physically hurt because others can’t accept things that don’t affect them. Well the goal posts moved pretty quick once that was accomplished. 
 

Now it’s about moving these agendas to the front of the line, and not allowing anyone but them to believe as they wish. To live as they see fit. To be forced into submission by actual cancel culture if you don’t want your 10 year old to read graphic gay pornography in their school library. 

This is patience. This is restraint. We should all be thankful this is still relatively peaceful. 

[CrimsonKing]

2 minutes ago, Tatetopa said:

Competition is generally a good thing for consumers, if it is real.  One likely outcome might be corporations setting up shadow brands to cater to this demand. They change the label on some of their product to maintain that illusion. In this case, pretty simple, there is  no need to change price, quality, or taste.  In fact, it is probably an opportunity to jack up the price a little and call it a special limited supply.

Real competition would be useful though it probably won't happen.  The danger is the Candace Owens bank model, even Peter Thiele put some money into it.  It was an interesting concept, but they got a crook to run it and the money evaporated. A business has to be sound, not just un-woke.

With the whole parallel economy thing comes another interesting question.  Should the federal government continue to take tax dollars from blue states and redistribute them to red states to help pay for roads, schools, police, and hospitals?  Or should every red state just stand on its own  in a parallel economy?  

Sounds mean I know, but currently we are intertwined on a very deep level.  Buying a different more manly beer is not creating a parallel economy. 

 

It has been funny watching Bud squirm 

They have repeatedly stepped in the same pile of s*** over and over again on this issue hahaha

Now everyone hates them from all sides 

[CrimsonKing]

Bud Lights problems weren't "cancel culture",the consumers didn't like what the product stood for and are going elsewhere..

On top of it,the out of touch idiot over marketing insulted the customer base in her "explanation"  

Starting to p*** me off a little though,the ex-Bud Light drinkers are trying to learn about good beer for the first time in their lives,and the shelves of my favorites are running a bit thin...

Might wind up in a fight with a former Bud man over the last 6 pack of Sierra Nevada 

[spartan max2]

23 minutes ago, preacherman76 said:

This is patience. This is restraint. We should all be thankful this is still relatively peaceful. 

Bud light using a trans spokesperson and Target releasing trans specific clothes. How ever could we expect people to be peaceful and restrain themselves over this .

We have And Then always talking about separate governments ,economies, and subtly suggesting civil wars. 

Yes I'm mocking people over this. 

Don't buy a product, whatever. Talking about civil war and suggesting people a justified to violence is a whole other thing.

 But I guess if a conspiracy can convince people to throw millions of votes out than I honestly wouldn't be surprised what else they could be manipulated into supporting.

But hey, as long as you don't have to use teenagers pronouns or share the bathroom with a trans person or have gay characters in children's books

Edited May 29 by spartan max2

[Knob Oddy]

21 minutes ago, preacherman76 said:

This is not cancel culture. Cancel culture is much more malicious then just not buying a product because you don’t support a company’s political beliefs. 
 

Cancel culture seeks to destroy individuals. Calling their jobs, friends, their neighbors, their families to threaten and intimidate. And honestly what did these people think was going to happen?

At first this was supposed to be about protecting peoples civil rights. To live and let live. I personally would never want to see anyone get physically hurt because others can’t accept things that don’t affect them. Well the goal posts moved pretty quick once that was accomplished. 
 

Now it’s about moving these agendas to the front of the line, and not allowing anyone but them to believe as they wish. To live as they see fit. To be forced into submission by actual cancel culture if you don’t want your 10 year old to read graphic gay pornography in their school library. 

This is patience. This is restraint. We should all be thankful this is still relatively peaceful. 

Thank you for your post. 100% correct.

It's no more cancel culture than Spartan refusing to shop at a hat shop with MAGA hats in it. Its consumer choice. Voting with your dollar.

Cancel culture involves individuals and causes real world harm.

[+and-then]

2 hours ago, Gromdor said:

"You can't boycott Israel" laws?  What if there is a product made by a "Woke" Israeli company?

Interesting point.  I'm not sure how that could coincide with the laws on BDS but half of Israel is as messed up as the US is.  IMO, Leftist doctrine is a poison to all nations but your point about "woke" Israeli companies or imports answers itself.  If it pushes degeneracy in plain view or markets it to children, it has no place in most communities.  Those who do celebrate such perversions can display it proudly.  People who are offended can stay away.  And the corporation can lose their business.  Kind of like the lost 7 billion Target is experiencing.  I think AB's Dylan Mulvaney catastrophe is up to 16 billion in lost market share.  

Tel Aviv has a thriving gay community and the celebration of it is a little sickening to me but I don't live in Tel Aviv so it doesn't really matter to me.  

[Knob Oddy]

1 minute ago, spartan max2 said:

Bud light using a trans spokesperson and Target releasing trans specific clothes.

How ever could we expect people to be peaceful and restrain themselves over this .

We have And Then always talking about separate governments ,economies, and subtly suggesting civil wars. 

Yes I'm mocking people over this. 

................

But hey, as long as you don't have to use teenagers pronouns or share the bathroom with a trans person or have gay characters in children's books

So you claim 'cancel culture", then Preacher shows you its not, so you change to attack And Then for his political observations?

Just keep moving the goal posts mate. If you chuck enough poo at the wall, some of it must stick right? 

Noone wants to control your behavior. Only their own behavior. And your the one upset about it. No one will stop you "using a teenagers pronouns" or stop you "sharing a bathroom with a trans person". We just want you to allow us the same freedoms you have to make a choice

[spartan max2]

1 minute ago, Knob Oddy said:

So you claim 'cancel culture", then Preacher shows you its not, so you change to attack And Then for his political observations?

Just keep moving the goal posts mate. If you chuck enough poo at the wall, some of it must stick right? 

Noone wants to control your behavior. Only their own behavior. And your the one upset about it. No one will stop you "using a teenagers pronouns" or stop you "sharing a bathroom with a trans person". We just want you to allow us the same freedoms you have to make a choice

I clearly quoted his comment about being grateful that people are peaceful. 

So I drew a connection between his comment and And Thens typical language.

I'm sure that was "confusing" to you. 

It is cancel culture to boycott a business over politics. Talk about moving goalpost lol

[preacherman76]

2 minutes ago, spartan max2 said:

Bud light using a trans spokesperson and Target releasing trans specific clothes. How ever could we expect people to be peaceful and restrain themselves over this .

wow context man, it’s a thing. That was low. 

2 minutes ago, spartan max2 said:

We have And Then always talking about separate governments ,economies, and subtly suggesting civil wars. 

Yes I'm mocking people over this. 
 

I know. It’s why it’s ever more likely. You folks have no respect for anyone who doesn’t think like you. None of it is suggestion. It’s observation. Our differences are irreconcilable. 

2 minutes ago, spartan max2 said:

Don't buy a product, whatever. Talking about civil war and suggesting people a justified to violence is a whole other thing.

I don’t even drink beer, so whatever indeed. Selling baby onesie’s that are designed to tuck ones genitalia and some serious lines have been crossed. Funny you are basically saying the beliefs of millions of people shouldn’t have any level of respect, that we should just lay down and accept whatever perversions they want to push on our children. It’s your side doing everything it can to make this a reality. Not mine. We are simply shaking the rattle. 

2 minutes ago, spartan max2 said:

 But I guess if a conspiracy can convince people to throw millions of votes out then I honestly wouldn't be surprised what else they could be manipulated into supporting.

Never any details with these comments. As if that election was run the same as any of them. Smh

2 minutes ago, spartan max2 said:

But hey, as long as you don't have to use teenagers pronouns or share the bathroom with a trans person or have gay characters in children's books

Again, detail. Many of these pronouns aren’t pronouns at all. They are not even actual English words.
 

Or share a bathroom with a trans person? You mean have parents being ok with biological men  exposing their junk in front of little girls in a vulnerable place.
 

Or have gay characters in a children’s book? You mean having gay characters, minor gay characters, performing in detail sexual acts on par with pornographic literature. 

[CrimsonKing]

This recent fascination over the last 3-5 years of what everyone's "sex" is or what/who they are having/want to have sex with has reached disturbing levels,and I'm no preacher by any means...

I don't need to know on a daily basis about what sex anyone is or wants to be,or who/what they have it with... that's a personal issue,not mine I don't care who or what you are...treat me like a person,I'll treat you like one.

[darkmoonlady]

This will be hilarious. A lot of conservative folks in ugly clothes because they won't wear woke aka gay designers. They won't let their kids play with anything basically, Lego is woke so good luck prying lego pieces out of every conservative kids hands. Why not just go be Amish and let your kids play with wood blocks and wear burlap. 

Edited May 30 by darkmoonlady

[psyche101]

How is the woke detector itself not woke? 

If I saw someone using something like this in a shop I would point at them and laugh loudly and heartily. 

Damn politics are stupid. People who are sucked in by them to this level even more so.