Has anybody put up an aggregator of reasons to avoid specific brands? Most big brands would end up there for one reason or another, but still, would be good to have a quick resource to consult. My current method is to do a web search for “$BrandName$ controversy lawsuit human rights” or something like that, but nowadays alt-right extremists are polluting the news space with spurious “”“controversies”“” (like for Bud Light and Levi’s).
“If you are going into Wendy’s I will pay for you to go to McDonald’s instead,”
McDonald’s has been caught union busting multiple times.
“joked Simon Peacock”
It was a quip in the moment.
I mean sure, but the joke undercuts the message a bit and makes him sound ill informed. It’s like being anti war and saying “If you’re thinking about joining the US military, I will pay you to join Russia instead.”
Not really. It was a quick joke, they had a laugh. It’s not a big deal at all.
I didn’t say it was a big deal. But the joke doesn’t make sense and is therefore not a good joke. It’s just not a good look when the first thing you see in an article is a contradiction. These people need media coaching.
It’s a perfectly fine joke. They are protesting Wendy’s actively at the moment and not McDonald’s. The guy didn’t do a research project before his quip, who cares. You are saying there is an issue here when there isn’t one, at all.
A research project? It would’ve taken a single Google search to find an appropriate restaurant to name. Just because you’re apathetic and lazy, doesn’t mean everyone else has to be or has to excuse it. And a lot of people who read that article are going to point it out. If you look misinformed, people aren’t going to take you seriously. It harms the cause, whether it should or not. That’s why media training is necessary. It’s not a “perfectly fine” joke.
Yes it is. There is no issue here, you are inventing one. 99.99% of people are not going to care about this. At all.