Post by arietty on Oct 6, 2010 16:51:12 GMT -5
Here is the snopes piece about Proctor and Gamble's supposed satanism:
www.snopes.com/business/alliance/procter.asp
I used to send snopes links to my fundy relatives in response to the near endless email fwds about ~something bad~ and they did actually read them sometimes. But now there is a story circulating about some liberal thing the Snopes people believed/did and this means they will no longer read anything from Snopes. How convenient, LOL
I was told the Proctor and Gamble story for the millionth time by a christian friend only a year ago.
People love to be outraged. I do believe a lot of boycotting fervor comes down to it being an easy hit of self-righteousness. It's disturbing when people won't drop it when the original complaint is proved to be a total falsehood--I still get fwds about Jane Fonda being a commie traitor whose behavior led to the execution of a POW even though the POW in question (a nice conservative republican) has publicly stated that this story is a total lie. People are just attached to their hit of outrage.
Now that I have a totally different crowd of friends I find myself in trouble for not boycotting companies that aren't on the ethical trading or free trade lists. So far I have been mildly rebuked for.. buying certain brands of tea, eating certain kinds of fish, drinking coffee from a cafe that uses the "wrong" coffee, buying items made in China.. it's all a lot more tame and understandable than SATAN though. I'm just not invested in much these days and while I might purchase something because it comes from somewhere GOOD (oxfam project or whatever) I can't be bothered not purchasing from some long list of bad.
www.snopes.com/business/alliance/procter.asp
I used to send snopes links to my fundy relatives in response to the near endless email fwds about ~something bad~ and they did actually read them sometimes. But now there is a story circulating about some liberal thing the Snopes people believed/did and this means they will no longer read anything from Snopes. How convenient, LOL
I was told the Proctor and Gamble story for the millionth time by a christian friend only a year ago.
People love to be outraged. I do believe a lot of boycotting fervor comes down to it being an easy hit of self-righteousness. It's disturbing when people won't drop it when the original complaint is proved to be a total falsehood--I still get fwds about Jane Fonda being a commie traitor whose behavior led to the execution of a POW even though the POW in question (a nice conservative republican) has publicly stated that this story is a total lie. People are just attached to their hit of outrage.
Now that I have a totally different crowd of friends I find myself in trouble for not boycotting companies that aren't on the ethical trading or free trade lists. So far I have been mildly rebuked for.. buying certain brands of tea, eating certain kinds of fish, drinking coffee from a cafe that uses the "wrong" coffee, buying items made in China.. it's all a lot more tame and understandable than SATAN though. I'm just not invested in much these days and while I might purchase something because it comes from somewhere GOOD (oxfam project or whatever) I can't be bothered not purchasing from some long list of bad.