# Sleeping Giants: doing my part to fuck Breitbart **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 15, 2016, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-giants-doing-my-part-to-fuck-breitbart/774756 "2016-12-15T07:18:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-giants-doing-my-part-to-fuck-breitbart/774756/1 "2016-12-15T07:18:54Z")
> **[Gamergate Showed How to Kneecap a Website. Now This Group Is Trying to Do the...](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/12/sleeping-giants-campaign-against-breitbart.html)** > > Want to take a stand against Breitbart, the site formerly headed by Trump adviser Steve Bannon that Bannon once called “the platform for the... 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. > [@](#): > > The Sleeping Giants account says 255 companies have pulled ads from Breitbart as of Thursday. 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”. For example: [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/wpbrCDH.png?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/6D4dZ) I bet SanDisk would hate to have that be what their company is associated with. I recommend everyone do their part. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-giants-doing-my-part-to-fuck-breitbart/774756/2 "2016-12-15T07:37:38Z")
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!” ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-giants-doing-my-part-to-fuck-breitbart/774756/3 "2016-12-15T08:13:00Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > 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. WTF?? I just looked at the entire main page of [Breitbart.com](http://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.](http://www.breitbart.com) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-giants-doing-my-part-to-fuck-breitbart/774756/4 "2016-12-15T08:34:47Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > WTF?? I just looked at the entire main page of [Breitbart.com](http://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.](http://www.breitbart.com) 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. Here’s a little crash course. Or, to put it bluntly: [https://twitter.com/GDorn/status/805527784797806592/photo/1](https://twitter.com/GDorn/status/805527784797806592/photo/1) 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](http://imgur.com/a/6D4dZ). Y’know, shit like that. Just because they aren’t 24/7 hate like Stormfront doesn’t make their content any less objectionable. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-giants-doing-my-part-to-fuck-breitbart/774756/5 "2016-12-15T09:23:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-giants-doing-my-part-to-fuck-breitbart/774756/6 "2016-12-15T10:29:33Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > 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. Try this… [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/15/can-you-name-one-white-nationalist-article-at-breitbart-challenge-accepted/?utm\_term=.2e9744766271](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/15/can-you-name-one-white-nationalist-article-at-breitbart-challenge-accepted/?utm_term=.2e9744766271) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-giants-doing-my-part-to-fuck-breitbart/774756/7 "2016-12-15T11:00:22Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > More like trolling the libs I’d say. Which is the mark of any reputable news source, naturally. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-giants-doing-my-part-to-fuck-breitbart/774756/8 "2016-12-15T11:10:35Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-giants-doing-my-part-to-fuck-breitbart/774756/9 "2016-12-15T12:09:17Z")
Proof that people show you who they really are, all the time. You just have to wait. “Your true colours come shining through.” ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-giants-doing-my-part-to-fuck-breitbart/774756/10 "2016-12-15T13:23:25Z")
I’ve sent emails to four different companies today. Anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-giants-doing-my-part-to-fuck-breitbart/774756/11 "2016-12-15T13:33:36Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > 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 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. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-giants-doing-my-part-to-fuck-breitbart/774756/12 "2016-12-15T13:38:54Z")
I think you’re _way_ over-estimating how much of a “part” you’re playing. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-giants-doing-my-part-to-fuck-breitbart/774756/13 "2016-12-15T13:44:09Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > I think you’re _way_ over-estimating how much of a “part” you’re playing. Me alone? Fucking nothing. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleeping-giants-doing-my-part-to-fuck-breitbart/774756/14 "2016-12-15T13:53:04Z")
While discussing topics in the news is certainly welcome (and encouraged) on this board, we don’t allow calls to action here: > [@FAQ - Rules for Posting at the Straight Dope Message Boards](#): > > Calls to Action: Threads calling for folks to take actions (political, charitable, personal, etc) are prohibited unless there is prior approval from a moderator or administrator. Do not instigate members to take action for or against any issue or entity. Do not post phone numbers, email addresses or any other personally identifiable information of any entity in this regard. Exceptions for valid and noble causes may be made with the advance permission of a moderator or administrator. 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.