{"id":51107,"date":"2023-07-09T14:29:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T18:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=51107"},"modified":"2023-07-09T14:29:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T18:29:44","slug":"being-too-woke-gets-you-into-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=51107","title":{"rendered":"Being Too Woke Gets You Into Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, MSN<\/a> reported that Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream suffered significant losses on the stock market after a tweet that called for Americans to return U.S. land to Native Americans.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The fallout of Ben & Jerry’s Fourth of July tweet<\/a> became evident as soon as the close of the stock market<\/a> on Thursday, which reflected a loss of almost $1 per share.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unilever, Ben & Jerry’s parent company,<\/a> had its shares listed at $52.28 at the end of the day on Monday, before the tweet called for the return of U.S. land to Native Americans. By Thursday, when about 30 million Twitter users had read the ice cream company’s claim that “the US was founded on stolen Indigenous land” and opted to boycott the brand, its share price had fallen to $51.31.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But that’s only part of the story.<\/p>\n

On Friday, The Daily Caller<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n

Ben & Jerry\u2019s headquarters is located on land originally controlled by a Native American tribe in Vermont, and the chief of this tribe expressed interest in reclaiming the property on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ben & Jerry\u2019s marked Independence Day on Tuesday by tweeting that the U.S. should \u201ccommit to returning\u201d land to Native Americans. In response, Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation said his tribe would be willing to take back the land currently owned by Ben & Jerry\u2019s, according to Newsweek.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article at The Daily Caller concludes:<\/p>\n

In a statement,\u00a0<\/a>Ben & Jerry\u2019s claims that the best place to start returning land to Native Americans\u00a0 is Mount Rushmore. They call for the United States to return the South Dakota land to the Lakota Sioux.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom there, in 1927, they watched as their holy mountain, now located on land known as South Dakota, was desecrated and dynamited to honor their colonizers, four white men\u2014two of whom enslaved people and all of whom were hostile to Indigenous people and values,\u201d the statement<\/a> reads.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ben & Jerry\u2019s hasn\u2019t yet publicly responded to Steven\u2019s comments.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ben & Jerry\u2019s did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This reminds me of NIMBY (Not In My BackYard), only in this case it’s ‘Take someone else’s backyard first!’<\/p>\n

Can we give the Native Americans back Manhattan?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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