Basically, people are starting to remind companies that their public relations might not be best-served by placing ads on a white nationalist hate website.
A similar campaign run by the people behind Gamergate seriously hurt Gawker a year or two ago. The complaints about Gawker were fake; Breitbart legitimately is a hate site, and I think it would be good to let companies know that they might not want to associate their image with a bunch of white nationalists, misogynists, anti-semites, and islamophobes. That maybe it isn’t optimal to have an ad for their company next to an article with the title of “Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive And Crazy”.
Wow - their reaction to Kelloggs pulling adverts is… special - as far as I can see, it amounts to “Yeah, well you’re bigoted for complaining about my bigotry!”
WTF?? I just looked at the entire main page of Breitbart.com’s website and predictably saw nothing that could reasonably be defined as any of this. There was indeed a considerable amount of hate in evidence, but it all took the form of various lefties against Donald Trump. Here’s a link to Breitbart’s website. I’d appreciate it if you’d point out for us just which articles or ads appearing there qualifies in your opinion as being white nationalist, misogynistic, anti-semitic, islamophobic and/or hateful.
Maybe, just maybe, Elsivier doesn’t want ads for their products appearing next to headlines like “Here’s why there ought to be a cap on women studying science and maths”. Maybe SanDisk doesn’t want their ads above an article talking about how birth control makes women ugly and crazy. Y’know, shit like that. Just because they aren’t 24/7 hate like Stormfront doesn’t make their content any less objectionable.
But your complaint wasn’t that Breitbart’s site was objectionable. Instead you called it a white nationalist hate site. You also called it misogynistic, anti-semitic and homophobic. I’d say even the links you posted fall far short of any of those labels in real world terms. More like trolling the libs I’d say.
If you don’t find “there ought to be a cap on women studying science and maths” to be outright misogyny, I don’t trust you to recognise any of the other bigotries listed should it be right in your face.
If I put up a billboard saying your wife was a fat, ugly whore who hates America— just to piss you off and make her feel bad, not because I really believed it— that would make it okay, right? I mean, it wouldn’t be my fault if other people who saw it assumed it was true, began harassing and threatening her anonymously, and put up their own billboards with similar lies. I’m just having fun; I can’t be held responsible for what effect it has.
Everyone else doing this? Well, Breitbart has lost 255 advertisers. That’s pretty substantial. It’s apparently bad enough that they feel the need to strike back with their inane statement about Kellogg’s “censoring” them.
While discussing topics in the news is certainly welcome (and encouraged) on this board, we don’t allow calls to action here:
As the OP of this thread (and subsequent posts) fits that description, I am closing this thread. Again, you’re welcome to discuss what’s happening and your opinion of it, but please don’t attempt to incite people in this manner.
