Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Faces Boycott After Endorsing Black Lives Matter

[DigitalDrifter]

Overpriced ice cream. That's Ben and Jerry's.

 

[jknowgood]

Never tried it, I know the owners are Looney liberals.

 

[Brynmr]

These idiots support evil. Screw em.

 

[theHawk]

Sounds like liberals across the country are going to be getting even fatter.

 

[guno]

These idiots support evil. Screw em.

are you tying that while chowing own on vanilla jesus balls ice cream

 

[Rocko]

Frozen yogurt > ice cream

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I have never had Ben and Jerrys. I know what they are.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

All the more reason to buy Baskins.....mmmmmm Baskins

 

[Slave2the$]

Who buys their ice cream? Just start a riot, break some windows, walk in and take it while chanting "hands up don't shoot!"

 

[Pogo]

Never tried it, I know the owners are Looney liberals.

Actually it's owned by Unilever. They sold it like sixteen years ago.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Have they made an obama ice cream yet? Vanilla ice cream with mocha food coloring.

 

[Syriusly]

SHUT THEM DOWN!!! SHUT THEM DOWN!!! SHUT THEM DOWN!!!

Big Hollywood ^ | 7 Oct 2016 | Jerome Hudson

Socially conscious ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s faces calls for a boycott after the company announced its support for the Black Lives Matter protest movement this week. “Systemic and institutionalized racism are the defining civil rights issues of our time,” the Vermont-based company said in a statement. “We’ve come to understand that to be silent about the violence and threats to the lives and well-being of black people is to be complicit in that violence and those threats.”

Sending a pointed message to its detractors, Ben and Jerry’s said: “All lives do matter. But all lives will not matter until black lives matter.”

The company posted its support for Black Lives Matter on Facebook and Twitter.

The company added that it does not place blame for racism against the black community on individual police officers.

Rather, we believe it is due to the systemic racism built into the fabric of our institutions at every level, disadvantaging and discriminating against people of color in ways that go beyond individual intent to discriminate. For this reason, we are not pointing fingers at individuals; we are instead urging us to come together to better our society and institutions so that we may finally fulfill the founding promise of this country: to be a country with dignity and justice for all.

In May, the company announced that proceeds from its new flavor of ice cream, “Empower Mint,” would help benefit the North Carolina NAACP’s campaign to repeal the state’s voter ID law.

The company has previously released ice cream flavors in support of same-sex marriage equality and climate change. Company co-founders Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen have also come out in support of the Iran nuclear deal.

But after backing Black Lives Matter, the online backlash against the ice cream-making duo is mounting.

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This will be even more foolish than the attempted boycott of Chik Filet

 

[JOSweetHeart]

I already don't get that kind of ice cream. Instead I get the Blue Bunny ice cream and that is when I get ice cream at all.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[AZGAL]

YOU ALL KNOW THAT GOOD VERMONT POLITICS HAS STRUCK AGAIN!

 

[mgh80]

Boycotting Ben and Jerry's is just as stupid, arrogant, and pointless as it is to boycott Chick-Fil-A.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Boycotting Ben and Jerry's is just as stupid, arrogant, and pointless as it is to boycott Chick-Fil-A.

IDK...it sure shook Target to it's foundation

 

[mgh80]

Boycotting Ben and Jerry's is just as stupid, arrogant, and pointless as it is to boycott Chick-Fil-A.

IDK...it sure shook Target to it's foundation

Link? I'm not sure what you're talking about tbh?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Boycotting Ben and Jerry's is just as stupid, arrogant, and pointless as it is to boycott Chick-Fil-A.

IDK...it sure shook Target to it's foundation

Link? I'm not sure what you're talking about tbh?

When Target decided to make their now ill fated decision to allow men/transgenders into women's restrooms they were boycotted and their losses were literally in the millions. Not to mention their stock price tanked further adding to their woes

The Target boycott is costing more than anyone expected

 

[Anathema]

I stopped buying B&J Ice Cream a decade ago when it came out that their parent company supported the Brady Campaign. They've been Progressive nitwits, unfit to touch my money for a long time.

 

[mgh80]

Boycotting Ben and Jerry's is just as stupid, arrogant, and pointless as it is to boycott Chick-Fil-A.

IDK...it sure shook Target to it's foundation

Link? I'm not sure what you're talking about tbh?

When Target decided to make their now ill fated decision to allow men/transgenders into women's restrooms they were boycotted and their losses were literally in the millions. Not to mention their stock price tanked further adding to their woes

The Target boycott is costing more than anyone expected

Your article cites a 1% drop in Target's stock as evidence. However Target's stock was already falling for years (literally) before the boycott. There's no clear evidence that this is why. For example it could very well be from Amazon's growing share in retail.

It could be from the boycott, the huge safety breach they had, or simply competition increasing. We don't know why.