Has anyone else switched their drink of choice?

Not to mention Senior Citizen's as well.

 

I'm not woke enough to worry about it.

 

Agreed ..

 

I’d be surprised if they do.

 

Bud light always tasted like chit. The fact that it was ever America's #1 beer is startling.

 

The problem that A-B has is that particular beer is unremarkable where people won't abandon it. Their marketing success is what made it #1. My neighbor and I get together on occasion at each others place and have a few Coors Light.
The situation going on is not a boycott by a consumer shift. Plenty of light stuff out there that drinkers will be satisfied with. Schlitz went cheap on ingredients and their customers could tell. They stopped buying. Schlitz returned to the better stuff, but their historic buyers had already settled in with their new brands and didn't come back. Bud Light marketing told their buyers, they weren't their kind of customer. far worse.

In a tavern, I generally go for PBR. My motorcycle guys drink it but other friends ask "what in the heck is that?".

A tavern a few miles from me got national attention when the owner sent a social media announcement for their customers to not patronize if they couldn't refrain from making unflattering comments on the product and anyone who bought it there. They stayed away and the owner was begging them to return, but please be civil. They have not, and it is too far away from the liberal city to garner "woke" support.

 

I don't do business with either mentioned entity, AB or Target. If I did, I still would, I don't give a rip about their marketing choices.

I also don't give credibility to anyone who uses the word "woke" to describe another person, whether they mean it as a positive or a negative.

 

So I have to ask, you don't try to support companies that align with your worldview/moral compass?
And what word would you use to describe someone with that manner of thinking/acting then?

 

I used to drink Bud Light now and then and been in a Target twice. Never again on both.

 

Yes. I try to buy from companies that do less harm, when I have a reasonable choice.

But who they choose to market to - why would I care?

It is not a useful word. Those on the right use it to describe someone who is on the left. It is a pejorative word. Perhaps "left-leaning" works.

In it's original context, it meant "concerned or aware about inequality." But even in that context, it feels pejorative.

I have found that most who who use it mean to offend or to make a "statement," not to have reasonable discussion. Therefore, I find it non-useful.

 

The word “woke” naturally arose as the inverse of the long oft-heard, also pejorative “far-right” coined to discredit certain personalities, their contribution to journalism, their worldview, and the difficult conversations pertaining to culture, morality, the status quo/establishment, etc. Since “far-left” is not mainstream vernacular, a new word had to be created that embodied the excesses of the fringe on the other side.

A clear distinction needs to be made at who the term is being hurled at as well. It’s not for the wholesale labeling of everyone left of center as such. It’s not to take a jab at the institution of classic liberalism either (of which many on the right fall into that camp). It’s calling out a specific sect of people that are fanatically anti-first amendment, anti-capitalism, and yearn for the destruction of the nuclear family. People that believe that the panacea to past discrimination of one group is to embrace current discrimination of another group. In short, the people that Bill Maher likes to bag on.

 

I think it's the projection that this behavior (crossdressing to put it mildly) is common, normal and to a point admirable, that most find repulsive and are tired of this mental illness being shoved down into our daily normal lives.
I don't really care what someone does in private, but not accepting cultural and societal norms, in fact taunting them with such public displays.. when does one draw the line?
All of this for less than 1% of the population, but the marketing, media and even our government promoting this small fraction of the population as normal is just pizzing us off.
They've turned what used to be sympathy (like you'd have for a neutered dog humping a pillow) into well deserved anger and total rejection.

 

Well said fuelrod . It’s the driving this bullchit down my throat is what makes me angry, to put it mildly. You want to try to be something that you are NOT and NEVER will be is on you, I could care less and have said it to one’s face, but do it on your own by yourself or with your crossdressing nut job buddies and don’t involve ME. Anyone condoning this type of behavior is part of the problem!

 

I think most folks have a live and let live attitude about people in that community. Nobody really cares what other people do in the privacy of their own bedroom. But when it’s promoted to the point that it’s so wayyy over the top, that an entire month is dedicated to celebrating what people do in the bedroom, it crosses the line from freedom of expression to something a lot of people in the middle find unpalatable. Especially when corporate America starts cashing in on the fun (I would expect nothing less from them, as they’re making an obscene amount of money virtue signaling and boosting their ESG scores) Time will tell whether we’re teaching the next generation to be more tolerant, or we’re teaching them that sexual identity and endless self promotion of theirs is the most virtuous, endearing value they possess.