"Bud Light's "Up for Whatever" campaign is supposed to be about rallying people together for a good time. But on Tuesday it was mostly uniting people in anger at the brand.
A bottle of the Anheuser-Busch beer bearing the line, "The perfect beer for removing 'No' from your vocabulary for the night," upset quite a few consumers, who say the messaging is tone deaf considering the role alcohol frequently plays in rape cases.
Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #1Seriously? And Anheuser-Busch is apologizing?
"Bud Light's "Up for Whatever" campaign is supposed to be about rallying people together for a good time. But on Tuesday it was mostly uniting people in anger at the brand.
A bottle of the Anheuser-Busch beer bearing the line, "The perfect beer for removing 'No' from your vocabulary for the night," upset quite a few consumers, who say the messaging is tone deaf considering the role alcohol frequently plays in rape cases.
The Twitter comments at the link make one wonder just how crazy we have become.
" . . . They are contaminated; they are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You cannot change their mind[s], even if you expose them to authentic information, even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behavior. In other words, these people... the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible . . ." Yuri Bezmenov 1984