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If you saw our ad on Tucker Carlson’s show, you’re right to be upset. We are too. While we did place our ad with Fox, we did not know it would air on a show so repugnant and at odds with our mission and values. We are blacklisting the show going forward. We are deeply sorry.
— Babbel USA (@BabbelUSA) April 30, 2019
It’s striking how the word “blacklisting” has gone from in the 1970s being a terrible McCarthyite offense against freedom to something that corporations now proudly advertise that they do to show how wokely virtuous they are.
‘…It’s striking how the word “blacklisting” has gone from in the 1970s being a terrible McCarthyite offense against freedom to something that corporations now proudly advertise that they do to show how wokely virtuous they are.’
See also ‘populism.’. That used to be a good thing — but is now a bad one.
-- big corporate: was bad, now good
-- blue collar union members: were good, now bad
-- Boy Scouts: were good, now bad
-- Third World population growth: was bad, now good
-- communicable diseases: were bad, now good
etc, etc.
The left has mused about filing “fiduciary duty” lawsuits against FOX for keeping Carlson on the air when they can’t get WokeCapital to buy ad slots.
Some rumors have claimed Carlson is dependent on the patronage of Lachlan Murdoch.
They will not allow us anything.
1. Gain control of practically all media including social, broadcast, print, etc. (I guess Fox News is the lone outpost?)
2. Spread value system through control of practically all media ("diversity is strength and anyone opposed is a horrible bigot", etc.)
3. Use control of practically all media to threaten advertisers of the badthink content in the lone outpost that contradicts the value system
4. Advertisers pull out
5. Since the badthink content in the lone outpost is now a financial liability, use fiduciary duty laws to force it to be removed
It's perfectly legal and perfect censorship. Gradually I began to hate them.
Written by a blacklist fetishist, of course.
@Steve
“it’s striking how the word ‘blacklisting’ has gone…”
Oh come now, it’s not striking at all. You’re the main guy who popularized the Who/Whom dynamic for English speakers, you should know better.
Quite obviously, blacklisting was very, very bad, very double-plus ungood double-secret BAAAAD way back in the Before-fore Timey-times, back when (((Our Bestest Friends Forever))) were in danger of being blacklisted for oh, y’know, just trying to betray, subvert and destroy the country they lived in. But now that (((Our Bestest Friends))) are fully in charge, and control ALL the choke-points and shock-collars of ALL media, finance, judicial, corporate, academic and governmental fulcrums going forward, blacklisting is just going to be Jim-dandy from here on out.
Come on, you understand this, boychik, right? And if you don’t, you can just kiss your platform, your credit cards and your bank accounts off to Lower Slobovia.
Babbel indeed.
De Tocqueville
Facile false equivalency. There is good and evil
When you give to
@FoxNews
, no matter the program, you are financing Tucker Carlson and all other white supremacist fluffers there.
You need to decide what matters: Reaching lunatics or losing everyone else. Until you show a corporate conscience, Im not recommending babel anymore
Who’s the audience anyway? Would anyone who watches Fox News want to learn another language anyway?
Face it you guys are losing in the marketplace of ideas
It is immoral to treat conservatives as more worthy of contempt than the 13% of the population that commits 50% of the homicides.
The definition of irony.
going forward….all purpose BS deflective words….anyways ….
To whomever these Babbel people are (obviously not an American company):
a) Tucker Carlson will be able to find other ads. I think he will sleep fine tonight.
b) Do you know how few people actually pay attention to commercials, or more often, have the TV muted? I doubt 1/4 of the TV audience could have told you 2 minutes later whose ad had just been on during that break.
c) I watch Tucker Carlson on youtube, not TV. I don’t see your ads. This is why I have no idea what your company does, and worse yet, don’t care.
d) “Going forward”, like “at the end of the day”, is a decade-old corporate expression. It makes your company sound like a bunch of old pharts.
e) SCREW YOU ALL!
podcast i listen to says one of the few advertisers left is Swanson Frozen Foods? because Carlson's stepmother was an heiress of that company - not sure if true though
also, rumors that Carlson is buying land in Maine with a studio for him to broadcast from when he inevitably gets let go by FNC because of the boycott. maybe he'll put out his own program then
It's a language learning app wot you pay for.
https://about.babbel.com/en/about-us/
The picture of Chief Product Officer Geoff Stead makes me ashamed to be British.
https://about.babbel.com/shared/managers/gstead.jpg
See also 'populism.'. That used to be a good thing -- but is now a bad one.
We’re going to need a program to keep track of the changes:
— big corporate: was bad, now good
— blue collar union members: were good, now bad
— Boy Scouts: were good, now bad
— Third World population growth: was bad, now good
— communicable diseases: were bad, now good
etc, etc.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xTbSygBCGPg*Kindle's autocorrect changed this to "homie". Don't drink the water in Seattle!
Babbel is a language learning app (“Babbel” as in Tower of Babel, to babble). I don’t know if it qualifies as a “corporation” in the colloquial sense of a large enterprise.
I’m surprised they were even advertising on Fox in the first place. Language learning for recreation tends to be a SWPL thing.
Taking Tucker down is now in over-drive. His Alma Mater, Trinity, just had a professor go crazy (2nd time) with hatred towards white people (it made national news). And, unfortunately, for the Uni president (also AfAm), Tucker’s disdain for Trinity over this latest ugly diatribe by this professor was awkward. since alumni are now disgusted.
http://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-trinity-professor-tweets-20190423-ivp7byahsfdm7f2uc3crfxp2ra-story.html
Everyone, all over the country and Europe adore Tucker! Tucker is officially, famous. Most companies want to have ads when he is on air – he is commanding millions, now. Sean is still popular with his set audience for the last 15-20 years, but Tucker appeals to a younger age group….this is why the left is apoplectic.
See also 'populism.'. That used to be a good thing -- but is now a bad one.
Eh, not so sure I ever remember “populism” being a good thing. “Populism” is just what you call Democracy, when your side loses.
“They will not allow us anything.”
Oh quiet now whitie, if you think taking Tucker Carlson off the air justifies such moaning you’ll have another thing coming when the real crackdown begins. Enjoy your last few election cycles as an electoral force that needs to be paid lip service to, because once we can win without any whitie votes at all you’ll be truly cooked. On the bright side, I can promise you that white liberals will be leashed and collared just like all the other whities once we no longer have need for them. They are your enemies even more so than we are, so you should get at least some satisfaction from seeing your enemies suffer, even if you’ll be suffering right alongside them.
a) Tucker Carlson will be able to find other ads. I think he will sleep fine tonight.
b) Do you know how few people actually pay attention to commercials, or more often, have the TV muted? I doubt 1/4 of the TV audience could have told you 2 minutes later whose ad had just been on during that break.
c) I watch Tucker Carlson on youtube, not TV. I don't see your ads. This is why I have no idea what your company does, and worse yet, don't care.
d) "Going forward", like "at the end of the day", is a decade-old corporate expression. It makes your company sound like a bunch of old pharts.
e) SCREW YOU ALL!
True – but think how breathtakingly stupid someone has to be to actively watch advertisements. “A fool and his money are soon parted” never rang truer.
My wife mainly drinks ground coffee, but we always have instant in the house, and I have noticed over the years that she occasionally switches brands - and the switch is always to whichever brand is being most heavily promoted on TV. I'm sure it's completely unconscious.
Our trajectory has been Gold Blend - Kenco - Douwe Egberts - majority owned by the Riemann family (probably an integrated business then?), and people who make suppliers wait up to 300 days before payment. Ain't oligopoly grand?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/buy-now-pay-later-helps-jab-billionaires-build-beverage-empire
Meh. At least it's understood the advertisement is promoting a product. Can you say the same for the program itself?
McCarthy was right, and we are suffering today because the Greatest Generation and the preceding one failed to listen to him.
“While we did place our ad with Fox, we did not know it would air on a show so repugnant and at odds with our mission and values.”
What are those values — other than the value of the Benjamins?
Heh heh. Its about workin the sheisters in the diversity rackets.
You run some poc uppa flag. Put a chick and a black on the board, legal has something to work with.
To normal men it appears the most grotesque grovelling parasitism, but hey not gonna sue.
Who, whom?
When you give to
@FoxNews
, no matter the program, you are financing Tucker Carlson and all other white supremacist fluffers there.
You need to decide what matters: Reaching lunatics or losing everyone else. Until you show a corporate conscience, Im not recommending babel anymore
Who’s the audience anyway? Would anyone who watches Fox News want to learn another language anyway?
Face it you guys are losing in the marketplace of ideas
Our right to self-determination is not dependent upon the whims of left-liberals.
It is immoral to treat conservatives as more worthy of contempt than the 13% of the population that commits 50% of the homicides.
Ah, it’s a callout to Sleeping Giants, the pressure group funded and supported by big tech to isolate and swarm any company that dares to advertise on any non-pozzed platform.
This isn’t an apology, it’s pathetic grovelling and pleading for clemency, which will, as always, fail to obtain any.
Are you paying attention, President Trump? I’ll bet that the sources of funding for Matt Rivitz and his cronies would be veeeery interesting to the IRS. And since the guy is an ad man, there’s a potential tortious interference angle as well.
https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/1112862012218933248
Some rumors have claimed Carlson is dependent on the patronage of Lachlan Murdoch.
They will not allow us anything.
What a clever ploy! Shall we map it out:
1. Gain control of practically all media including social, broadcast, print, etc. (I guess Fox News is the lone outpost?)
2. Spread value system through control of practically all media (“diversity is strength and anyone opposed is a horrible bigot”, etc.)
3. Use control of practically all media to threaten advertisers of the badthink content in the lone outpost that contradicts the value system
4. Advertisers pull out
5. Since the badthink content in the lone outpost is now a financial liability, use fiduciary duty laws to force it to be removed
It’s perfectly legal and perfect censorship. Gradually I began to hate them.
This, it always meant wrongly appealing to people who probably shouldn’t be able to vote. A tyrant was once a guy who cancelled the overgrown agricultural debts that inevitably built up for smallholders and peasants. This, a lasting evidence of the feeling on the part of the lenders of cancelled debt, who generally had enough left over to patronize writers and artists. And now we see ostensibly-leftist grovelling to Kapital and The Patron running riot like in Renaissance Venice, except nobody knows how to make art any more.
But dumber still is the person who gets emotional about them, or bets all his money on them.
a) Tucker Carlson will be able to find other ads. I think he will sleep fine tonight.
b) Do you know how few people actually pay attention to commercials, or more often, have the TV muted? I doubt 1/4 of the TV audience could have told you 2 minutes later whose ad had just been on during that break.
c) I watch Tucker Carlson on youtube, not TV. I don't see your ads. This is why I have no idea what your company does, and worse yet, don't care.
d) "Going forward", like "at the end of the day", is a decade-old corporate expression. It makes your company sound like a bunch of old pharts.
e) SCREW YOU ALL!
He will indeed sleep fine, because the biggest Fox sponsor seems to be that My Pillow guy, who loves Trump and seems very unlikely to “blacklist” Carlson.
Meanwhile, disgraced demagogue Rachel Maddow still has a show on MSNBC despite pushing a disproved Manchurian Candidate conspiracy theory for years. And whose idea was it to put all the major media in just three cities that are all heavily democrat and are, therefore, easily managed by party bosses and the US government? …. oh, maybe that was on purpose. Remember when Bush relaxed all those media ownership rules that allowed these corporations based in LA and NYC to buy up local newspapers? Yeah, conservatives are their own worst enemy. It’s amazing how easy it is to soothe the boomernats by dropping a little “muh corporashuns” ointment onto them as they are being disenfranchised. By hey, at least we preserved corporate rights.
OT (some good news): Cute Asian Tiger Lady Targeted by Unattractive American Cat Ladies Decides She Won’t Bow Down To Woke Mob After all – Will Publish Book Gatekeepers Deemed “Racist”. Ironically, the black guy who instigated the Twitter lynch mob got unpersoned himself not long after. His crime: he wrote a book about some gay guys in Yugoslavia during the 90s war there, or something similar…but they were WHITE gay guys and not natives and the bad guy was a Muslim. #Hitlerconfirmed
As a wiyabu with a sobakawa, I never thought I would feel about pillows like I do about that Mike guy, but he is awesome. I wish Steve King had a quarter of his stuffing.
“It’s striking how the word “blacklisting” has gone from in the 1970s being a terrible McCarthyite offense against freedom … ”
McCarthy’s targets were Leftists at a time when white American conservatives were the majority. Therefore, he and his rhetoric were deemed bad because the latter could be used to great effect against the Left and their interests. Now that the Left has a majority due to immigration and media ownership, using those same tactics against their enemies is deemed good because it serves their interests. See how that works? It’s all a case of Who, whom? Humans don’t actually believe much of what they say, or at least their professed beliefs don’t originate from a principled dialectic. People choose their beliefs superficially based on what they think serves their immediate interests and, tangentially, their group interests; they then seek to justify them retroactively by cherry picking arguments. Thus, when it serves their personal or group interests, humans will change their old professed beliefs to match their new current interests. This is why proposition nations of the kind promoted by Charles Krauthammer and fellow neocons are fundamentally unstable: propositions are ephemeral and wholly dependent upon society’s current interests; change the society or change the interests and you change the professed proposition. Leftists have done just that (along with technological innovation and changing economic circumstances). Therefore, our national proposition is no longer free expression but preventing the new Coalition of the Fringes from having its feelings hurt – freedom, facts and logic be damned.
I'm surprised they were even advertising on Fox in the first place. Language learning for recreation tends to be a SWPL thing.
Going by ratings FoxNews counts a stuff white people like.
a) Tucker Carlson will be able to find other ads. I think he will sleep fine tonight.
b) Do you know how few people actually pay attention to commercials, or more often, have the TV muted? I doubt 1/4 of the TV audience could have told you 2 minutes later whose ad had just been on during that break.
c) I watch Tucker Carlson on youtube, not TV. I don't see your ads. This is why I have no idea what your company does, and worse yet, don't care.
d) "Going forward", like "at the end of the day", is a decade-old corporate expression. It makes your company sound like a bunch of old pharts.
e) SCREW YOU ALL!
you don’t know that though
podcast i listen to says one of the few advertisers left is Swanson Frozen Foods? because Carlson’s stepmother was an heiress of that company – not sure if true though
also, rumors that Carlson is buying land in Maine with a studio for him to broadcast from when he inevitably gets let go by FNC because of the boycott. maybe he’ll put out his own program then
The thing is, back when blacklisting was done in the “McCarthy Era,” there really was communist infiltration in American media and government, and many of those who were blacklisted were indeed assisting the communist cause of subversion. Ron Unz has written about this.
So, when blacklisting was a bad word, it was referring to something that was actually a good being done against, arguably, an evil. It was a bad word because the act was against those who controlled the discourse or “narrative,” and who were assisting in the subversion.
Now blacklisting is a good word, because it means something evil being done against what is good and right. This is because the idealogical heirs of past subversion are doing the same dirty work as always — and defining the terms as usual.
It all makes sense. Right?
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/900906615527944196
When you give to
@FoxNews
, no matter the program, you are financing Tucker Carlson and all other white supremacist fluffers there.
You need to decide what matters: Reaching lunatics or losing everyone else. Until you show a corporate conscience, Im not recommending babel anymore
Who’s the audience anyway? Would anyone who watches Fox News want to learn another language anyway?
Face it you guys are losing in the marketplace of ideas
Tiny Duck: Who, Whom!
-- big corporate: was bad, now good
-- blue collar union members: were good, now bad
-- Boy Scouts: were good, now bad
-- Third World population growth: was bad, now good
-- communicable diseases: were bad, now good
etc, etc.
just change the name and the stigma goes away
venereal disease –> STD —> to what is it now, SID or STI? very clinical
illegal alien —> illegal immigrant —-> undocumented worker —> migrant
I know screenwriters who still bring up Dalton Trumbo on at least a monthly basis.
The fountain was a free speech place, and they reasoned that Dalton Trumbo stood for that.
Whatever.
I did some comedy at an open mic there one day and was amazed that I could make fifty people laugh. On another occasion, I happened upon Alan Ginsburg reading "Birdbrain" there in front of a pathetically small group of perhaps five people. I stood there and listened to the angry man with the beard.
I also thought like a good communist because that's what my professors were teaching. It took a while to get over that.
One time I was watching a traveling preacher preach at that Dalton Trumbo Fountain when suddenly the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile pulled up behind him. It was one of the most surreal juxtapositions I have ever seen. I laughed out loud.
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/wi/WIMADwiener_sandefur_620x300.jpg
Film schools and even the one history of film courses a lot of undergrads take as one of the general ED requirements just blast the anti McCarthy pro communist line. A conspiracy theorists like I might think the history of film courses are in the curriculum for the purpose of pro communist anti McCarthy propaganda than studying old movies.
So, when blacklisting was a bad word, it was referring to something that was actually a good being done against, arguably, an evil. It was a bad word because the act was against those who controlled the discourse or "narrative," and who were assisting in the subversion.
Now blacklisting is a good word, because it means something evil being done against what is good and right. This is because the idealogical heirs of past subversion are doing the same dirty work as always -- and defining the terms as usual.
It all makes sense. Right?
https://media.giphy.com/media/U4VXRfcY3zxTi/giphy.gif
Also, the fifties anti-Communist blacklisting was actually a fair and direct reaction to the thirties Communist blacklisting, as is unwittingly admitted by every McCarthy critic who mentions Lucille Ball being signed up against her will. In the thirties, to work with certain Communist-sympathetic directors, you had to be a card-carrying Communist. Like the later blacklist, it was a matter of getting a paycheck or not, so some people went along with it unwillingly.
This isn't an apology, it's pathetic grovelling and pleading for clemency, which will, as always, fail to obtain any.
Are you paying attention, President Trump? I'll bet that the sources of funding for Matt Rivitz and his cronies would be veeeery interesting to the IRS. And since the guy is an ad man, there's a potential tortious interference angle as well.
Trump has shown that he will never do anything against people who viciously and illegally attack him.
the JQ, steve. the JQ.
its that simple.
when will you wake up?
there’s a scene in your favorite actor’s, paul walker, most famous movie where he’s trying to explain to his boss that there are subtle forces at work and his boss replies, “It was Dom. It was always Dom.” Turned out it was Dom.
it’s the JQ, steve. it was always the JQ, steve.
In the US populism from the late 1800s to the early 1900s would probably be perceived as being good since it seems to have been more progressive, or left wing. Later populism in the US became more reactionary which is what we have with Trump in 2016.
It’s not populism they hate, it’s reactionaries.
So, when blacklisting was a bad word, it was referring to something that was actually a good being done against, arguably, an evil. It was a bad word because the act was against those who controlled the discourse or "narrative," and who were assisting in the subversion.
Now blacklisting is a good word, because it means something evil being done against what is good and right. This is because the idealogical heirs of past subversion are doing the same dirty work as always -- and defining the terms as usual.
It all makes sense. Right?
https://media.giphy.com/media/U4VXRfcY3zxTi/giphy.gif
Ann Coulter covered McCarthy in her book Treason.
You have to wonder about the profitability of some of the companies blacklisting or otherwise alienating potential customers. Other than in the back end of insurance, where the underwriters scare customers away by uprating their policies, I have never seen businesspeople try to alienate customers of any type. They certainly don’t do it in brick-and-mortar luxury sales businesses, even if the customer does not appear to be a likely sale, including in custom luxury sales where any potential customer requires a lot of work before the sale is closed.
These internet companies are bold about marking customers off of their list.
Genius algos must have probed the potential customer base of every viewer via privacy-demolishing means so thorough that the company knows for certain that this show’s viewers won’t ever use their product. If they are X age and hold X political view, and if their household income and household composition is X & X, they will never travel using our product, especially if they shop at X store, buying X product at X time of the day every X. Does this put you in the mood to buy? Even if you have the money, do you really want to be judged at the point of sale, much less beforehand?
1. Gain control of practically all media including social, broadcast, print, etc. (I guess Fox News is the lone outpost?)
2. Spread value system through control of practically all media ("diversity is strength and anyone opposed is a horrible bigot", etc.)
3. Use control of practically all media to threaten advertisers of the badthink content in the lone outpost that contradicts the value system
4. Advertisers pull out
5. Since the badthink content in the lone outpost is now a financial liability, use fiduciary duty laws to force it to be removed
It's perfectly legal and perfect censorship. Gradually I began to hate them.
And an excellent illustration of the worthlessness of the First Amendment.
We should encourange conservatives to boycott Babbel for criticizing Tucker, and liberals to boycott Babbel because they advertised on FOX. I hope this company is completely driven out of business.
If you mean dissident rightists the problem is that they're such a tiny minority that a boycott would have no effect.
a) Tucker Carlson will be able to find other ads. I think he will sleep fine tonight.
b) Do you know how few people actually pay attention to commercials, or more often, have the TV muted? I doubt 1/4 of the TV audience could have told you 2 minutes later whose ad had just been on during that break.
c) I watch Tucker Carlson on youtube, not TV. I don't see your ads. This is why I have no idea what your company does, and worse yet, don't care.
d) "Going forward", like "at the end of the day", is a decade-old corporate expression. It makes your company sound like a bunch of old pharts.
e) SCREW YOU ALL!
I’ve always hated “Going forward…….”. When ever I’ve heard people say that I want to ask them: Going forward? Which other way would you go? You got a f**king time-machine in your pocket?
They renamed the fountain at my alma mater after Trumbo. He went there for a couple of years before setting out for L.A. and his career.
The fountain was a free speech place, and they reasoned that Dalton Trumbo stood for that.
Whatever.
I did some comedy at an open mic there one day and was amazed that I could make fifty people laugh. On another occasion, I happened upon Alan Ginsburg reading “Birdbrain” there in front of a pathetically small group of perhaps five people. I stood there and listened to the angry man with the beard.
I also thought like a good communist because that’s what my professors were teaching. It took a while to get over that.
One time I was watching a traveling preacher preach at that Dalton Trumbo Fountain when suddenly the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile pulled up behind him. It was one of the most surreal juxtapositions I have ever seen. I laughed out loud.
https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/rendered/default/poster/8/10/break/images-medium-private-5/1969-dickmobile-steve-paige.jpg
http://americandigest.org/penis%20car.jpg
I wanted nothing to do with him.
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/900906615527944196
She gets it.
(Have you noticed that she is invisible on television now that she is hammering Trump and his team on immigration?)
Trumbo was such a fink that he ratted out fans of one his own books to the FBI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun
He was a creep. A talented creep to be sure, but still a creep.
From your Wikilink:Notice that he was only against American involvement when his fellow communists had a pact with Hitler -- and that he was happy to turn in "right wing" isolationists afterward.
Who / Whom
When you give to
@FoxNews
, no matter the program, you are financing Tucker Carlson and all other white supremacist fluffers there.
You need to decide what matters: Reaching lunatics or losing everyone else. Until you show a corporate conscience, Im not recommending babel anymore
Who’s the audience anyway? Would anyone who watches Fox News want to learn another language anyway?
Face it you guys are losing in the marketplace of ideas
Good idea. Maybe you should learn English before you try to butcher any other language with your drug-induced ramblings.
-- big corporate: was bad, now good
-- blue collar union members: were good, now bad
-- Boy Scouts: were good, now bad
-- Third World population growth: was bad, now good
-- communicable diseases: were bad, now good
etc, etc.
No, they’re back to “good” again. They allow homos* on your son’s camping trips.
These are the bad guys:
*Kindle’s autocorrect changed this to “homie”. Don’t drink the water in Seattle!
The attorneys are advertising on TV for victims.
NAMBLA members molesting 8 year olds good. Catholic clergy critters and Scout leaders molesting 16 year olds bad, very very bad.
The Scouts aren’t as wealthy as the Catholic Church. But they do own some incredibly now expensive land they bought 100 or more years ago. There’s a billion dollars of Catalina Island Big Sur Yosemite adjacent, Marin San Mateo and other Counties Ski resort adjacent property in California alone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun
He was a creep. A talented creep to be sure, but still a creep.
Trumbo blacklisted his own novel!
The fountain was a free speech place, and they reasoned that Dalton Trumbo stood for that.
Whatever.
I did some comedy at an open mic there one day and was amazed that I could make fifty people laugh. On another occasion, I happened upon Alan Ginsburg reading "Birdbrain" there in front of a pathetically small group of perhaps five people. I stood there and listened to the angry man with the beard.
I also thought like a good communist because that's what my professors were teaching. It took a while to get over that.
One time I was watching a traveling preacher preach at that Dalton Trumbo Fountain when suddenly the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile pulled up behind him. It was one of the most surreal juxtapositions I have ever seen. I laughed out loud.
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/wi/WIMADwiener_sandefur_620x300.jpg
You sure it wasn’t the Dickmobile?
Only the dumbest Mainstream Conservative thought the Left was actually against blacklisting. When they were raising Hell about Commies being blacklisted, it was only because they wanted to protect their own.
Of course, the real game is to shut down dissent.
yes, He wrote it around 1939-1940 when the Soviet Union was allied with Hitler. When his sponsor was invaded by Hitler the book was a bit of an embarrassment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun
He was a creep. A talented creep to be sure, but still a creep.
Indeed he was.
From your Wikilink:
Notice that he was only against American involvement when his fellow communists had a pact with Hitler — and that he was happy to turn in “right wing” isolationists afterward.
Who / Whom
The fountain was a free speech place, and they reasoned that Dalton Trumbo stood for that.
Whatever.
I did some comedy at an open mic there one day and was amazed that I could make fifty people laugh. On another occasion, I happened upon Alan Ginsburg reading "Birdbrain" there in front of a pathetically small group of perhaps five people. I stood there and listened to the angry man with the beard.
I also thought like a good communist because that's what my professors were teaching. It took a while to get over that.
One time I was watching a traveling preacher preach at that Dalton Trumbo Fountain when suddenly the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile pulled up behind him. It was one of the most surreal juxtapositions I have ever seen. I laughed out loud.
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/wi/WIMADwiener_sandefur_620x300.jpg
I also met Alan Ginsburg in person. He “liked them young” as they say.
I wanted nothing to do with him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYgv7ur8ipg
From your Wikilink:Notice that he was only against American involvement when his fellow communists had a pact with Hitler -- and that he was happy to turn in "right wing" isolationists afterward.
Who / Whom
Commies are the worst. And they are still around, only the tags they go by have changed.
Lovecraftian Horror in Marketing!
What are their mission and values? I thought they sell language-skill-improvement courses?
This is a complete misconstruction of “fiduciary duty”. “Fiduciary duty” is not about removing everything and anything that doesn’t throw off enough shekels. It’s about good management (which seems to be rare in any case).
1. Gain control of practically all media including social, broadcast, print, etc. (I guess Fox News is the lone outpost?)
2. Spread value system through control of practically all media ("diversity is strength and anyone opposed is a horrible bigot", etc.)
3. Use control of practically all media to threaten advertisers of the badthink content in the lone outpost that contradicts the value system
4. Advertisers pull out
5. Since the badthink content in the lone outpost is now a financial liability, use fiduciary duty laws to force it to be removed
It's perfectly legal and perfect censorship. Gradually I began to hate them.
That phrase is making a comeback.
To they bring up his “Hitler is a victim of British propaganda” writings?
a) Tucker Carlson will be able to find other ads. I think he will sleep fine tonight.
b) Do you know how few people actually pay attention to commercials, or more often, have the TV muted? I doubt 1/4 of the TV audience could have told you 2 minutes later whose ad had just been on during that break.
c) I watch Tucker Carlson on youtube, not TV. I don't see your ads. This is why I have no idea what your company does, and worse yet, don't care.
d) "Going forward", like "at the end of the day", is a decade-old corporate expression. It makes your company sound like a bunch of old pharts.
e) SCREW YOU ALL!
Babbel is a German corporation. Germany has a long history of blacklisting – I believe the 1930s were particularly ‘woke’ in that regard.
It’s a language learning app wot you pay for.
https://about.babbel.com/en/about-us/
The picture of Chief Product Officer Geoff Stead makes me ashamed to be British.
Problem glasses? Check.
Soylent grin? Check.
Hipster status............confirmed.
Britishmale.But adverts do seem to work on susceptible audiences (i.e. women).
My wife mainly drinks ground coffee, but we always have instant in the house, and I have noticed over the years that she occasionally switches brands – and the switch is always to whichever brand is being most heavily promoted on TV. I’m sure it’s completely unconscious.
Our trajectory has been Gold Blend – Kenco – Douwe Egberts – majority owned by the Riemann family (probably an integrated business then?), and people who make suppliers wait up to 300 days before payment. Ain’t oligopoly grand?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/buy-now-pay-later-helps-jab-billionaires-build-beverage-empire
What are those values -- other than the value of the Benjamins?
Steve, you’re an old hand at market research. Do you think these corporate henchmen at Babbel were oblivious that they were buying valuable Tucker Carlson airtime on Fox? Maybe their minions were just writing a big cheque and hoping for Lou Dobbs?
Of course social media managers are hired from that demo so companies rarely figure that sort of thing out.
Can they still call it Blaclisting, as if to imply that Black is bad?
https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/1112862012218933248
Some rumors have claimed Carlson is dependent on the patronage of Lachlan Murdoch.
They will not allow us anything.
Say, isn’t that what Robert Duvall’s “evil” character in Network says about the news division of UBS?
Written by a blacklist fetishist, of course.
"it's striking how the word 'blacklisting' has gone..."
Oh come now, it's not striking at all. You're the main guy who popularized the Who/Whom dynamic for English speakers, you should know better.
Quite obviously, blacklisting was very, very bad, very double-plus ungood double-secret BAAAAD way back in the Before-fore Timey-times, back when (((Our Bestest Friends Forever))) were in danger of being blacklisted for oh, y'know, just trying to betray, subvert and destroy the country they lived in. But now that (((Our Bestest Friends))) are fully in charge, and control ALL the choke-points and shock-collars of ALL media, finance, judicial, corporate, academic and governmental fulcrums going forward, blacklisting is just going to be Jim-dandy from here on out.
Come on, you understand this, boychik, right? And if you don't, you can just kiss your platform, your credit cards and your bank accounts off to Lower Slobovia.
That was such a nice, shiny Gem of the Theory of Disease…
I can’t bring myself to look it up, but I’ve seen that “Johnny got his Gun” (the only thing anyone remembers he wrote) got him in a bit of trouble with the Party, since it was written to support the “only capitalist warmongers want another war” line during the H/S pact. Had to do some woke-style grovelling, I recall. Needless to say, not mentioned in the movie.
It's a language learning app wot you pay for.
https://about.babbel.com/en/about-us/
The picture of Chief Product Officer Geoff Stead makes me ashamed to be British.
https://about.babbel.com/shared/managers/gstead.jpg
Black clothing? Check.
Problem glasses? Check.
Soylent grin? Check.
Hipster status…………confirmed.
It's a language learning app wot you pay for.
https://about.babbel.com/en/about-us/
The picture of Chief Product Officer Geoff Stead makes me ashamed to be British.
https://about.babbel.com/shared/managers/gstead.jpg
I suspect that guy enjoys some of the more exotic Berlin night spots.
Among cable audiences Tucker has to be near the top SES/IQ-wise so would be a natural target for a language-learning company. Among social-media audiences the mass market is the woke as SJWism moves downscale, but if Babbel is smart they’ll recognize that that set is too busy LARPing to learn anything, let alone something as time-consuming as a new language.
Of course social media managers are hired from that demo so companies rarely figure that sort of thing out.
Blacklisting has never really gone away…it has been used, mainly by the left, to shut down free speech on TV, in the newspapers, on campus and public schools for years now…
People can be pressured to quit their jobs and even voluntary positions due to this pressure.
It is just another more virulent form of virtue signaling…
The genius of DeT was that he had no illusions about “democracy”, that it, too, could succumb to the instinct to wield the lash just like any other system of government, hence the origin of the phrase “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”.
“Vigilance” is a commodity which doesn’t exist anymore–if in fact it ever did. Which is why we slowly flow down the toilet.
“Communism” is their ersatz religion and as such the mirror image of “National Socialism” in Germany. As Chesterton wrote, people who cease to believe in God are capable of believing in anything.
When you give to
@FoxNews
, no matter the program, you are financing Tucker Carlson and all other white supremacist fluffers there.
You need to decide what matters: Reaching lunatics or losing everyone else. Until you show a corporate conscience, Im not recommending babel anymore
Who’s the audience anyway? Would anyone who watches Fox News want to learn another language anyway?
Face it you guys are losing in the marketplace of ideas
Stop smearing that white paste on your wiener. It’s disgusting. Putting anything but mustard on your hotdog, especially mayonnaise, makes you a deviant. Oh wait, I forgot you’re a pseudonym.
“Steve” is as sober as a nun. I’m the drug-induced rambler in these parts.
It's a language learning app wot you pay for.
https://about.babbel.com/en/about-us/
The picture of Chief Product Officer Geoff Stead makes me ashamed to be British.
https://about.babbel.com/shared/managers/gstead.jpg
The picture of Chief Product Officer Geoff Stead makes me ashamed to be
Britishmale.I watch Turner classic movies because it’s the only channel that doesn’t have ADs. But the little ten minute intervals between movies are usually anti McCarthy pro communist actors writers directors propaganda.
Film schools and even the one history of film courses a lot of undergrads take as one of the general ED requirements just blast the anti McCarthy pro communist line. A conspiracy theorists like I might think the history of film courses are in the curriculum for the purpose of pro communist anti McCarthy propaganda than studying old movies.
Funny thing, when Eddie plays it straight, he gives excellent commentary.
When you give to
@FoxNews
, no matter the program, you are financing Tucker Carlson and all other white supremacist fluffers there.
You need to decide what matters: Reaching lunatics or losing everyone else. Until you show a corporate conscience, Im not recommending babel anymore
Who’s the audience anyway? Would anyone who watches Fox News want to learn another language anyway?
Face it you guys are losing in the marketplace of ideas
we’re losing in the marketplace of gibsmedat
Half his family was wiped out by zealous Masonic lawyers in the revolution. So he knew the dangers of democracy very well.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xTbSygBCGPg*Kindle's autocorrect changed this to "homie". Don't drink the water in Seattle!
Boy Scouts were good for about a year. Now they’re bad again because some unemployed attorneys have uncovered hundreds of cases of boys being molested by Scout leaders going back to 1905.
The attorneys are advertising on TV for victims.
NAMBLA members molesting 8 year olds good. Catholic clergy critters and Scout leaders molesting 16 year olds bad, very very bad.
The Scouts aren’t as wealthy as the Catholic Church. But they do own some incredibly now expensive land they bought 100 or more years ago. There’s a billion dollars of Catalina Island Big Sur Yosemite adjacent, Marin San Mateo and other Counties Ski resort adjacent property in California alone
Of course social media managers are hired from that demo so companies rarely figure that sort of thing out.
This is true, a lot of language learning is like gym membership.
I wanted nothing to do with him.
There’s this episode of Firing Line with Jack Kerouac, with Ginsberg in the audience, worth watching in its own right, amd worth seeing just for Kerouac distinguishing between beatniks and hippies (whom he regarded as lazy criminals). It also has the peculiar feature of Kerouac early in the show going to lengths to disrespect Ginsberg and trying to not be associated with him. I wonder if that was a kind of joke or if that was a result of learning about Ginsberg’s proclivities.
It's a language learning app wot you pay for.
https://about.babbel.com/en/about-us/
The picture of Chief Product Officer Geoff Stead makes me ashamed to be British.
https://about.babbel.com/shared/managers/gstead.jpg
Continuing to model our future after The Tower of Babble principals is the best guaranty that Weimerica’s XXI Century will be inevitable her last as well.
THat’s strange I don’t remember Bill Moyers reading those passages back in the 70s PBS mini series
"Nothing is more embarrassing in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A stranger may be very well inclined to praise many of the institutions of their country, but he begs permission to blame some of the peculiarities which he observes – a permission which is, however, inexorably refused. America is therefore a free country, in which, lest anybody should be hurt by your remarks, you are not allowed to speak freely of private individuals, or of the State, of the citizens or of the authorities, of public or of private undertakings, or, in short, of anything at all, except it be of the climate and the soil; and even then Americans will be found ready to defend either the one or the other, as if they had been contrived by the inhabitants of the country." - Tocqueville
Blacklisting’s okay then?! Cool let’s get to blacklisting the outfits in America that put Israel first.
Perhaps because of this:
“Nothing is more embarrassing in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A stranger may be very well inclined to praise many of the institutions of their country, but he begs permission to blame some of the peculiarities which he observes – a permission which is, however, inexorably refused. America is therefore a free country, in which, lest anybody should be hurt by your remarks, you are not allowed to speak freely of private individuals, or of the State, of the citizens or of the authorities, of public or of private undertakings, or, in short, of anything at all, except it be of the climate and the soil; and even then Americans will be found ready to defend either the one or the other, as if they had been contrived by the inhabitants of the country.” – Tocqueville
tucker: honest and growing.
hannity: a greedy weasel.
a) Tucker Carlson will be able to find other ads. I think he will sleep fine tonight.
b) Do you know how few people actually pay attention to commercials, or more often, have the TV muted? I doubt 1/4 of the TV audience could have told you 2 minutes later whose ad had just been on during that break.
c) I watch Tucker Carlson on youtube, not TV. I don't see your ads. This is why I have no idea what your company does, and worse yet, don't care.
d) "Going forward", like "at the end of the day", is a decade-old corporate expression. It makes your company sound like a bunch of old pharts.
e) SCREW YOU ALL!
If he’s not worried then he’s a fool. He has been targeted for destruction. He will be destroyed. The campaign of destruction will be relentless and will not end until he has been silenced.
These internet companies are bold about marking customers off of their list.
Genius algos must have probed the potential customer base of every viewer via privacy-demolishing means so thorough that the company knows for certain that this show’s viewers won’t ever use their product. If they are X age and hold X political view, and if their household income and household composition is X & X, they will never travel using our product, especially if they shop at X store, buying X product at X time of the day every X. Does this put you in the mood to buy? Even if you have the money, do you really want to be judged at the point of sale, much less beforehand?
It’s happening every single day. Woke Capital (which means the entire corporate sector) does not want political dissenters as customers. They are not worried about the financial consequences because they know that political dissenters are a very small and steadily shrinking minority.
Conservatives? If you mean mainstream conservatives then I’m afraid you’re talking about people who are delighted to see any actual political dissent get crushed.
If you mean dissident rightists the problem is that they’re such a tiny minority that a boycott would have no effect.
‘True – but think how breathtakingly stupid someone has to be to actively watch advertisements…’
Meh. At least it’s understood the advertisement is promoting a product. Can you say the same for the program itself?
What was it about the 1950’s blacklist that was so atrocious? It affected maybe 20 guys, and hardly at all, right? Trumbo seemed to have a very satisfying life, blacklisted or not; I don’t think he missed any meals. Nobody was imprisoned or shot or even stopped from writing. I remember an Oscars ceremony sometime back where everybody flagellated themselves and rent garments over how AWFUL the blacklist was. WTF? Compare it to 2019, where any poor schmuck expressing his honest heterodox opinion destroys his career for real.
Rgith. Most of the black listed guys continued to work/write under assumed names.
Film schools and even the one history of film courses a lot of undergrads take as one of the general ED requirements just blast the anti McCarthy pro communist line. A conspiracy theorists like I might think the history of film courses are in the curriculum for the purpose of pro communist anti McCarthy propaganda than studying old movies.
Eddie Muller, host of Noir Alley, wails about the “witch-hunts” every time he can. Nicholas Stix calls him “Red Eddie.”
Funny thing, when Eddie plays it straight, he gives excellent commentary.
In one of her books Ann Coulter comments that some of the blacklisted writers were so badly affected they had to let some of their servants go.