[ April 19, 2024 ]
Boycott Goodyear.
Don’t buy GOODYEAR TIRES – They announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS. Get better tires for far less! (This is what the Radical Left Democrats do. Two can play the same game, and we have to start playing it now!).
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 19, 2020
WALSH: Goodyear Bans Blue Lives Matter And MAGA Shirts, Allows BLM And LGBT Messages
By Matt Walsh, Daily Wire, Aug 19, 2020:
Story continues below advertisementWIBW, a local news station in Topeka, Kansas, reports that a recent diversity training seminar at the Topeka Goodyear plant included a slide outlining the company’s zero tolerance policy. The image was posted to social media apparently by an employee who says that the material originates from Goodyear corporate headquarters in Akron, Ohio. Listed as “acceptable” messages are Black Lives Matter and LGBT pride. The “unacceptable” column consists of Blue Lives Matter, All Lives Matter, MAGA attire, and political slogans.
Goodyear has not specifically addressed the discriminatory slide, but it did issue the following statement in response to the report:
Goodyear is committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful workplace where all of our associates can do their best in a spirit of teamwork. As part of this commitment, we do allow our associates to express their support on racial injustice and other equity issues but ask that they refrain from workplace expressions, verbal or otherwise, in support of political campaigning for any candidate or political party as well as other similar forms of advocacy that fall outside the scope of equity issues.
This is outrageous on a number of levels. First of all, “all lives matter” is about as non-political as a slogan gets. Political messages are tribalistic and exclusionary by nature. Someone who affirms that all lives matter is expressly rejecting tribalism and defending the dignity of human life universally. The statement is not only non-political but in fact anti-political.
If “blue lives matter” is political, it is only because one side of the political aisle has decided to define itself by its raw hatred for law enforcement. But that does not make the message inherently divisive. All decent and sane people (a dwindling demographic, to sure) can agree that the lives of police officers matter.
In fact, Goodyear itself once seemed to feel this way. In the past the company has offered discounts to law enforcement officers and other first responders, and even now they brag that they are a “recognized leader” in providing tires for police cars.
What about Black Lives Matter? Well, if Marxism counts as a political ideology — and it does, last I checked — then BLM is an intensely political organization. It is co-founded by a woman who describes herself and her comrades as “trained Marxists” who are “super versed” on “ideological theories.” The “what we believe” section of the BLM website is full of these ideological theories, such as the theory that the “Western-prescribed nuclear family structure” should be “disrupted” and that “cisgender privilege” must be “dismantled.” And BLM has indeed done quite a bit of dismantling over the years. I don’t know if they’ve dismantled cisgender privilege, whatever that is, but they have left entire city blocks in ruins.
Goodyear is certainly not alone. Many of the most powerful corporations in America have endorsed and offered financial support to Black Lives Matter. Of course it is only by virtue of its name that this avowedly Marxist organization, which has been been involved in rioting and looting in cities across the country, has managed to gain such widespread and mainstream acceptance. If BLM had a more accurate name like “Marxists United,” or something similar, I doubt very much that Pepsi and and Goodyear would be lining up behind it.
Be that as it may, corporations that support Marxist organizations, while censoring messages of support for groups like police officers, should face a severe penalty from their customers. Conservatives, myself included, tend to shy away from boycotts. Now is probably time to get over that aversion. Goodyear should not see another dime from us until it has abandoned this policy, apologized for it, and explicitly affirmed the important truth that blue lives, and all lives, do in fact matter.
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34 Comments
3 years ago
Here’s a Great Shirt for the Goodyear Executives !!!
3 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
TRUMP Tweet today:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
“Don’t buy GOODYEAR TIRES – They announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS. Get better tires for far less! (This is what the Radical Left Democrats do. Two can play the same game, and we have to start playing it now!).”
10:33 AM · Aug 19, 2020
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
We need a ‘good guys’ registry, social media, selling platform, etc.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
If they want to claim “MAGA” is political speech, I would let it slide.
However, “ALL LIVES MATTER” is banned?
I’d like to hit ’em with “WHITE LIVES MATTER”.
3 years ago
What’s funnier is Goodyear makes tires for police cruisers all over the country.
3 years ago
These people, and I suspect all others, confuse diversity with politics.
Company’s would save a lot of money, time, and effort by telling people to live by the Golden Rule. Simple, safe.
3 years ago
Once again, the corporate world sides with political correctness, which is essentially terrorists of all definitions. ‘Goodyear,’ one hopes will have a ‘bad year’ when discerning people boycott this advocate of hatred, lawlessness, dogmatism while banning MAGA, and Blue Line Matters shirts.
A distasteful stench hangs over the corporate world where the deeming of destruction, terror, and evildoing become legitimate endeavors. If these factions, whether Marxists, Fascists, definitely despots, were to succeed, these corporations will collapse when nationalized.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Gillette razors lost $8 billion the following quarter after they went ‘woke’.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
How so many in the corporate world can be such miserable cowards, arselicking the Fascist Marxist scum is beyond me. Everyone should avoid dealing with those disgusting cowards.
3 years ago
“Goodyear is committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful workplace…….As part of this commitment, we do allow our associates to express their
support on racial injustice and other equity issues but ask that they
refrain from workplace expressions, verbal or otherwise, in support of
political campaigning for any candidate or political party as well as
other similar forms of advocacy that fall outside the scope of equity
issues.” Translation: ‘Leave your 1st Amendment rights at the door when you come to work. Or else.’
3 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
You can’t talk politics at most workplaces, and that’s how it should be. Also, this has nothing to do with the 1st Amendment
3 years ago
Reply to
Mr. Mojo Risin'
The same standard goes for the company donating to a Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization!
3 years ago
Reply to
Mr. Mojo Risin'
I see you’re off your meds again. From the story above: “Listed as “acceptable” messages are Black Lives Matter and LGBT pride.” So, you are either completely deluded, or you agree with the insane leftists and BLM. Which is it. So, get back to servicing the orderlies. You just can’t play with the adults here. Just too stupid. Cheers!
3 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Personally I don’t think those should be allowed either, but that still has nothing to do with the 1st amendment. So it sounds like you are an idiot who doesn’t understand the Constitution.
3 years ago
Reply to
Mr. Mojo Risin'
Ok. Keep the stupid comments coming. We’re all having a great laugh! Have you considered increasing electo-shock therapy, both in intensity and in frequency?
3 years ago
Reply to
Mr. Mojo Risin'
When did “All Lives Matter” become a political statement. Of course, a PRETEND engineer cannot be expected to answer that.
3 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
I’d love to see how the boys, in Akron, would react to a “White Lives Matter” emblem. Run that by the Left Wingnut’s “diversity training” crew.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Oh my. There would be total pandemonium. Lawyers, the ACLU, etc., would be called and the ‘boys’ would be tripping over themselves to kowtow to the ‘offended’ parties.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Hey Achmed! Years ago, I asked that question. In Columbus Ohio, Vets Memorial had ” Miss Black Ohio Pageant” on their billboard. When I called, to ask about sponsoring a “Miss White Ohio Pageant “, I was called a racist, and hung up on. Several of my friends, with good tans, thought it was pretty funny.
3 years ago
Reply to
Infidel
Congressional black Caucus, Congressional hispanic Caucus …. But, but, but … Where’s the Congressional White Caucus …
RACIST! RACIST! RACIST!
3 years ago
Everyone who goes up against President Trump loses.
It’s like a curse. It’s uncanny how some celebrity or athlete focuses on Trump and goes off on an anti-Trump rant and then fails professionally in some fashion.
Sometimes it is in unrelated ways like Jussie Smollett, Casey Affleck, Jerry Brown, Candice Bergen, Vincente’ Fox, Tom Brokaw, Michael Avenatti, Cher, George Clooney, John Conyers, Teresa May, Justin Trudeau, Bill Cosby, Johnny Depp,Eminem, Will Ferrell, Alex Cora, Al Franken, Morgan Freeman, Jemele Hill, Megyn Kelly, Garrison Keillor, George Lopez, Louis C.K., Emmanuel Macron, Rob Reiner, Brad Pitt, Jorge Ramos, Amy Schumer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Griffin, Kevin Spacey, George Takei, and many more.And Goodyear!
All raged against Trump,all were broken.
Trump just keeps on taking on all comers and then he breaks them…
3 years ago
Reply to
Jay
…and look how many of these characters promised to leave the USA if Trump becomes President. To my knowledge not one of them kept their promise.
3 years ago
The enemy is relentless. I wandered into enemy territory yesterday and got my ass kicked; don’t know what I was thinking about. At the very least we can now see where companies stand. We are not in Kansas anymore. 
3 years ago
Reply to
[email protected]
We all have failures, you may have got your ass kicked yesterday, but it doesn’t have to be like that tomorrow. Bravo for going into their, alright not really their, territory!! Calling it their territory while saying anyone can come across the border. Everyone is publically demonstrating their stupidity. I like the idea some have put forward of a list of our and their companies to buy from. Their stupid and their companies will eventually go out of business.
3 years ago
Somebody else said we should DDG (duckduckgo) a list of leftist/loon companies. I forget who to boycott sometimes. This’ll help.
http://www.investingadvicewatchdog.com/Liberal-Companies-Boycott.html
3 years ago
Simply run goodyear and anyone associated with them into the ground,…they can kiss it goodbye from this day forward,….
3 years ago
So, Goodyear…what did the Demoncrats promise you?
You’re selling our country out for “30 pieces of silver”.
I hope hell is hot enough for you…..
3 years ago
For Goodyear to say they are against political slogans but yet grants BLM as okay, is a contradiction in terms.
3 years ago
A huge Capitalistic World Wide Corporation like Goodyear now supports a Communist Movement has made me think the Planet has titled off its axis slightly.
