Pasta firm Barilla boycotted over 'classic family' remarks

Started by garbon, September 26, 2013, 12:55:46 PM

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11B4V

#30
September 26, 2013, 09:05:24 PM
Quote from: garbon on September 26, 2013, 08:58:10 PM
I would think something like a pasta company wouldn't even enter battle in the culture wars. What's the upside for their business?

Maybe 11B4V, we have very different ideas on what a private company should aim to do.

Perhaps, it's their company.
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garbon

#31
September 26, 2013, 09:14:45 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on September 26, 2013, 09:05:24 PM
Quote from: garbon on September 26, 2013, 08:58:10 PM
I would think something like a pasta company wouldn't even enter battle in the culture wars. What's the upside for their business?

Maybe 11B4V, we have very different ideas on what a private company should aim to do.

Perhaps, it's their company.

Of course and people can choose not to buy their products and also be annoyed.

That said, I don't see the advantage for a pasta company to try and alienate anyone. Like I asked before, what's the upside?
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#32
September 26, 2013, 09:23:37 PM
I don't see how this is a case of a pasta company trying to alienate anyone.  He was asked a question by a feminazi about politically incorrect ads featuring women serving pasta to family, and he answered honestly. 

derspiess

#33
September 26, 2013, 09:25:26 PM
OH NO YI HE HAD AN AGENDA TO MAKE GAYS FEEL BAD ABOUT THEMSELVES
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garbon

#34
September 26, 2013, 09:31:10 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 26, 2013, 09:23:37 PM
I don't see how this is a case of a pasta company trying to alienate anyone.  He was asked a question by a feminazi about politically incorrect ads featuring women serving pasta to family, and he answered honestly. 

By bringing gays in?
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#35
September 26, 2013, 09:34:07 PM
It may have been a misstep, but it doesn't seem to have been a deliberate one.
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garbon

#37
September 26, 2013, 09:39:34 PM
I'm sorry if my posts suggested that, I don't think it was intentional. And I think that's evidenced by the sort of hasty apology from the company.
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#38
September 27, 2013, 12:04:27 AM
Gays are stupid.
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11B4V

#39
September 27, 2013, 01:08:25 AM
 :lol:
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"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

The Brain

#40
September 27, 2013, 01:08:34 AM
Many people are only happy if companies communicate through PR firms and check all the PC boxes before finalizing any statement. An owner speaking unscripted and being somewhat honest in anathema to them.
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Duque de Bragança

#41
September 27, 2013, 03:03:28 AM
De Cecco pasta is better anyways, though Barilla is not bad.

Tamas

#42
September 27, 2013, 04:04:35 AM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on September 26, 2013, 01:54:51 PM
Tricking activist groups into getting mad at you and spending their own money to give you free publicity seems to be a fad marketing strategy these days.

:yes:

Although it is good for the activist group as well, AND people on both sides of the argument who like to get all scandalized and upset over meaningless shit can be upset (and thus happy) as well.

Everybody wins. Getting upset at each other for no real reason is what unites mankind into one happy community.

Sheilbh

#43
September 27, 2013, 04:50:52 AM
Quote from: garbon on September 26, 2013, 09:31:10 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 26, 2013, 09:23:37 PM
I don't see how this is a case of a pasta company trying to alienate anyone.  He was asked a question by a feminazi about politically incorrect ads featuring women serving pasta to family, and he answered honestly. 

By bringing gays in?
And saying 'if they don't want to buy it they don't have to'. Seems a really weird approach to take :mellow:
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lustindarkness

#44
September 27, 2013, 06:52:46 AM
Is a thread of a non news of a non event a non thread?
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