Will You Be Shopping At Boots This Christmas ?

[Khandro]

Hope this link works, and I'm wondering if, 'go woke go broke' might not kick in.

https://archive.ph/S7Tab

[Khandro]

A. Personally speaking, I'm not annoyed, I just don't like being patronised by people who think they know something better than I.

Also, I am their customer, they need me & I don't need them. So it is beholden of them to take notice & get on with selling products & not preach.

It's not only about ethnicities, I think giving (& expecting) all Boots staff members to wear gay-pride badges for Christmas is pretty outrageous.

'Go woke, go broke', - I hope they do & let them see how their shareholders feel about it all.

[davebro3]

I agree maggie - companies must think TV advertising is value for money but quite frankly it doesn't persuade me at all (unless it works subliminally!🙄).

[DTCwordfan]

More bloody American nonsense - anyway Walgreen's wants to unload them...probably the term 'green' is woke now.

[naomi24]

//I think giving (& expecting) all Boots staff members to wear gay-pride badges for Christmas is pretty outrageous.//

 

As I said yesterday it's all part and parcel of conditioning.  Encouraging the customer to adopt the woke mindset of inclusivity and diversity.  Many big companies, in the City of London certainly, now promote similarly among their staff. 

[Khandro]

During the de-banking scandal brought to light by Nigel Farage (another plus). A clergyman questioned why when he went into his bank he had to be confronted by gay-pride flags, which he rightly opined had nothing at all to do with banking - and he got de-banked for it.

These woke clowns are not only self-righteous, they are authoritarian as well !

[New Judge]

“I think we are quite grown-up enough to see adverts featuring single-raced couples.”

I think that’s the point, here, jack.

Advertising does not influence me in the slightest; I rarely, if ever, watch any live TV and when watching anything that I’ve recorded I swiftly fast-forward the adverts.

But I don’t need to be educated in the fact that there are mixed partnerships here in the multi-racial multi-cultural UK. I know there are. If I saw adverts and other situations where only all-white partnerships were portrayed it would not mean I would forget or dismiss that other versions are available (and even if I did, that would be my choice and my privilege).

But it seems that many organisations are under the impression that we do need constantly reminding. 

But I take Atheist’s point about disparities across the country. There are parts of London where, if they lived in isolation, people seeing an advert with white people in it at all would find it a bit odd because they see so few of them when they are out and about. They may well ask the same sor of question as we are asking here.

But there is much, much more to the UK than London and the other major cities. In Wales, for example, 94% of the population identify as “white” with over 90% identifying as “White: Welsh, English, Scottish, Northern Irish or British”. I would also hazard a guess (and it’s only a guess) that the majority of those not identifying as white live in the major cities in the south.

But overall there is this creeping movement especially among government but also in some of the larger organisations to “educate the masses” that minorities with “Protected Characteristics” exist in far greater prevalence than they actually do. It’s really none of their business to get involved in that sort of subliminal inculcation.

[jackthehat]

They are all 'DEI-captured'; a policy driven, in the main, by Stonewall.

Hopefully, at some point soon, the 'fluence will wear off and the world will come, once more, to its' senses.

[davebro3]

As an aside I'm quite surprised that so many people cannot swim! 40-50% in the USA & 33% in the UK.

I know that more swimmers drown than non-swimmers but still...

[New Judge]

"I know that more swimmers drown than non-swimmers but still..."

Probably because non-swimmers don't go near water, dave. Seems the best thing you can do to avoid drowning is not to learn to swim!  😀

[Deskdiary]

Whilst it is an aside davebro, I too am astonished.

 

I could swim from a very young age and have always loved the water, including becoming a Master Scuba Diver, although somewhat ironically you don't need to be able to swim to Scuba.

 

My 74 year old MIL can't swim, and I just scratch my head and think why is that when it's just so easy. People float - we've all got two bags of air in our chest.

[New Judge]

"Whilst it is an aside davebro, I too am astonished."

Me too, dd.

I don't know anybody over the age of about ten who cannot swim. And most of the children I know who are under that age can.

[dave50]

Trouble is, if the vast majority of tv ads only showed white couples, there would be complaints from the perpetually offended that they aren't diverse enough.  They really can't win.

[Khandro]

They maybe not good at swimming but they can make up for it in running - & they have a lot of practice! 😃

[newmodarmy]

Aw, I missed gulliver's short-lived contribution. I can guess what it covered though.

[gulliver1]

NMA 18,24 Bet you would have been wrong .lol.

[davebro3]

//Trouble is, if the vast majority of tv ads only showed white couples,//

Cannot they show black/Asian/Chinese couples? - probly more of "the norm"

[Old_Geezer]

They can win by ignoring the over-vocal minorities who are making unreasonable demands. They clearly need a course in spotting and avoiding woke nonsense, and listening to and knowing the majority of their customers.

 

Hardly rocket science. Most of average intelligence or greater know this instinctively.

[jourdain2]

'Subliminal inculcation'- than you N.J. for expressing succinctly why I instinctively recoil from a superfluity of ads. trying to persuade me that what I know to be true is wrong.