Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield is leaving the ice cream brand after 47 years, saying the freedom the company used to have to speak up on social issues has been stifled by corporate parent Unilever.
You do realize you’re referencing something from 25 years ago right?
This isn’t the traditional “big corporation buys something and then makes changes” situation. For 25 years Unilever has been fine with B&J doing their thing.
Something has changed, that’s notable. Dismissing it as traditional big corpo shit is stupid.
Really doesn’t matter that it was 25 years ago. During the war on terror plenty of people were being cancelled for not being pro war. This shits been going on for centuries.
This isn’t the traditional “big corporation buys something and then makes changes” situation. For 25 years Unilever has been fine with B&J doing their thing.
Yeah, well, they’re making changes now. So Ben and Jerry didn’t lose their autonomy right away, but they lost it nonetheless.
Ah yes the classic, “you’re young, you don’t know anything”. The same shit boomers have been telling everyone to dismiss criticism for decades and still do today. Get the fuck out of here with that shit.
Calls me on my shit? How did I say anything inaccurate? I made no claims about the decade. Your reading comprehension seems to be non-existent.
I simply pointed out that Unilever seemingly didn’t give a shit about B&J’s social stances for 25 years, so trying to claim this is at all like the standard things that corporations change when buying out companies is ridiculous.
I’m making no excuses at all, the exact opposite in fact. I’m pointing out that something else is the reason for this and for whatever reason you seem to be trying to act like this is normal business as usual.
Why are you trying to insist that there’s nothing to see here?
Clearly you’re physically incapable of having a real conversation. Good luck living in your little bubble and assuming everyone else must be a Trump supporter simply because they’re willing to have a discussion and even consider the idea that the world isn’t static.
You do realize you’re referencing something from 25 years ago right?
This isn’t the traditional “big corporation buys something and then makes changes” situation. For 25 years Unilever has been fine with B&J doing their thing.
Something has changed, that’s notable. Dismissing it as traditional big corpo shit is stupid.
Really doesn’t matter that it was 25 years ago. During the war on terror plenty of people were being cancelled for not being pro war. This shits been going on for centuries.
Yeah, well, they’re making changes now. So Ben and Jerry didn’t lose their autonomy right away, but they lost it nonetheless.
Broooo…. 2000 is no different than now in terms of selling out, becoming a billionaire, and then crying about how you have no more control.
You must be young… too young to actually remember 2000 vividly. It’s the same shit, just better phones.
Ah yes the classic, “you’re young, you don’t know anything”. The same shit boomers have been telling everyone to dismiss criticism for decades and still do today. Get the fuck out of here with that shit.
Lmfao, when you talk about a decade inaccurately, don’t be surprised when someone who was there calls you on your shit.
Stop making excuses for billionaires. You cannot become or remain a billionaire without being a total fucking asshole deep down.
Calls me on my shit? How did I say anything inaccurate? I made no claims about the decade. Your reading comprehension seems to be non-existent.
I simply pointed out that Unilever seemingly didn’t give a shit about B&J’s social stances for 25 years, so trying to claim this is at all like the standard things that corporations change when buying out companies is ridiculous.
I’m making no excuses at all, the exact opposite in fact. I’m pointing out that something else is the reason for this and for whatever reason you seem to be trying to act like this is normal business as usual.
Why are you trying to insist that there’s nothing to see here?
No, B&J didn’t give a shit about the long and terrible history that Unilever had for the last 25 years.
But please, keep explaining it into something else.
And yet for 25 years B&J have been able to do what they do without serious interference, now suddenly there’s a major issue.
But go ahead, keep trying to say everything is the exact same and nothing has changed. Keep sticking that head in the sand.
So as long as they could do whatever they wanted, they would ignore Unilever? Sounds like a bunch of cunty billionaires.
Keep voting for Trump, kid.
Clearly you’re physically incapable of having a real conversation. Good luck living in your little bubble and assuming everyone else must be a Trump supporter simply because they’re willing to have a discussion and even consider the idea that the world isn’t static.