Ben & Jerry's slated for condemning 'white privilege' riot on Capitol Hill: 'Stop making these damn Bolsheviks rich!'

Ben & Jerry's has diversified from the ice cream business, appointing itself an expert on national security and racism. Its explanation of the Capitol Hill riot as "white supremacy" left a sour taste in some customers' mouths.

Ben & Jerry's is no stranger to corporate activism, and has released several #Resistance-pleasing flavors during President Donald Trump's term in office: a vegan dessert honoring kneeling NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, a 'Pecan Resist' flavor to fundraise for anti-Trump organizations, and 'Save our Swirled Now', another vegan flavor to raise awareness of climate change.

The Vermont company also regularly issues proclamations on current events, from a lengthy post this summer declaring its support for the Black Lives Matter movement to a pro-immigration lecture aimed at the UK government this fall. However, the company has taken an even more solemn tone after pro-Trump protesters vandalized the US Capitol on Wednesday.

"Yesterday was not a protest - it was a riot to uphold white supremacy," Ben & Jerry's tweeted on Thursday, kicking off a lengthy thread explaining how "the mostly white insurrectionists roamed freely and without consequence through the heart of our democracy."

Calling the pro-Trump crowd the "ultimate embodiment of white privilege," the dessert peddlers claimed that they would have been treated differently were they "Black, Brown or Indigenous people" - capitalizing every race except "white" in an apparent bid for more woke points. In response to the "white tyranny" on display, the company called for the impeachment or deposition of President Trump, concluding "not one more day."

Of course, the company neglected to mention that an entire summer of BLM riots were mostly "allowed to happen" too, or that co-founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield had been arrested at the Capitol in 2016 at a protest against money in politics. Unlike the pro-Trump rioters, however, Cohen and Greenfield stayed out of the building and kept the peace.

Ben & Jerry's latest proclamation satisfied the cravings of the anti-Trump crowd, who praised the company for having "more integrity than our president," and showing"what it means to be anti-racist."

Yet for conservatives and Trump supporters, the lecture was one more reason to put down the spoon. "You shouldn't be eating ice cream anyway," right-wing pundit David Reaboi tweeted. "Hit the gym, eat clean and stop making these damn Bolsheviks rich."

The Capitol Hill riot left five people dead: an unarmed protester was shot by police, a police officer was fatally injured by a rioter, and three others suffered "medical emergencies" and passed away. It has been condemned by Democrats and most Republicans, and by a multitude of America's corporations, including the PR departments of Boeing, Goldman Sachs, and even Axe body spray.

Reader Comments

Highland Fleet Lute · 2021-01-09T20:40:58Z

These people aren't anti-racist, they're anti-human.

Cherry Garcia ice cream. Gimme a break. God damn hippy communists. Why don't you get your hair cut? LOL....[Link]

Bezel Bub · 2021-01-09T20:53:56Z

B&J ice cream tastes like frozen vomit...

Highland Fleet Lute · 2021-01-09T20:56:37Z

You've actually eaten frozen vomit?

You're obviously quite the gourmet.

Bezel Bub · 2021-01-09T21:04:23Z

Highland Fleet Lute Not quite frozen...it was more like a vomit smoothie

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-01-09T21:25:24Z

Bezel Bub

I prefer mine less smooth, more 'chunky'.

RC

dom38, infra: A kind of side point on yours: I believe that most advertising does work and it works on the non-SOTTypes, who make decisions subconsciously using their emotions rather than reason. That's sadly true and why advertising works.

I'd bet that if all of a sudden, the world would become SOTTypes, Madison Avenue would collapse.

RC

Bezel Bub · 2021-01-09T21:40:11Z

Rowan Cocoan Advertising is all about hooks and subliminal messages. I had an ex-brother in law who had his own ad agency and told me that the best and 'stickiest' commercials were the simple, annoying and usually low budget ones you could not get out of your head. Case in point...all I had to do was type 588-2300 into a search and this pops up [Link]

Christian Witchburn · 2021-01-10T03:23:41Z

I learned how to make my own ice-cream a while ago. Spiced rum and pecans makes for a pretty good vanilla. I guess I've been accidentally boycotting the Axe body spray. None of their exclusions seem to be breaking my heart too much. Who comes up with this crap, Br'er Fox?

dom38 · 2021-01-09T21:11:50Z

Ben & Jerry ice creams ? Okay, something else to boycott.

Well, to tell the truth I ate a B&J ice cream only once, and didn't find it to my taste. So they won't lose acustomer with me.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-01-10T03:31:45Z

I dunno, and while I'm still never going to buy B.&J.'s Ice Cream, I bet it tastes better than BJ's Ice Cream.

R.C.

sbc · 2021-01-10T05:53:35Z

Ben and Jerry's is a racist company anyways. They sell MILK based products exclusively.

Isn't milk a symbol of white supremacy and racist nationalism? [Link]
Yet they make their fortunes catering to the same extremists they so vocally denounce?

This is why the Kolin Caperdick flavor was vegan by the way....

So they even know they are catering to the extreme racist crowd.

they need to be cancelled.

sbc · 2021-01-10T05:53:58Z

sbc milk based products "almost" exclusively

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-01-10T06:01:55Z

sbc Not if it's MLK.

RC

dom38 · 2021-01-10T06:16:13Z

sbc In fact you make a good point. Since the wokes' criticisms are based on purely ludicrous claims, this should be used against them, as often as possible for no reason.

Let me tell you an anecdote I read somewhere about medieval witch-hunts : During the medieval era it was very easy to accuse someone of being a witch, so to have that person eventually burned at the stake without evidence of witchcraft required. One man lost all of his family to a witch-hunt. He then decided to become a witch-hunter himself, and later found the witch-hunters who had burned his family for ludicrous reasons, accused them of similarly ludicrous claims, and had them burned at the stake.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-01-10T07:37:26Z

dom38 Lord knows that I wish to put on that cloak. In this life I've been seriously wronged in a fashion that if such had happened to me even ten years earlier, the offenders would not still be among us - but they are.

However, if I'd been THAT wronged (and I do not doubt the tale, and would call the odds ~ 75 82% as that being true) I hope I'd have way more goodness in me to, even then, somehow turn the other cheek, but I - even these days - hope otherwise. (Aka, even now, I'm damn far from Christlike.)

RC

Rabelais · 2021-01-10T09:23:31Z

If one does a search for *Ben and Jerry GMO* they will find pages of links extolling B&J's noble crusade to eliminate all GMO ingredients from their products... and shaming anyone else who doesn't - the Gretas of the food industry.

No one seems to remember that this was a woke damage control response for B&J previously getting caught with GMOs in their ice-cream. All news of that has been scrubbed.

I thought the financial destruction of the collective west is the goal of the globalist elitists.

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