Saturday, July 08, 2023

Chief To Ben & Jerry's: Put Your Ice Cream Where Your Mouth Is

Ben & Jerry's decided to give a progressive Virtue Signal for the 4th of July, declaring the country was on "stolen native land", along with all the usual proggy tropes about white supremacy etc, etc:

Ben & Jerry's: The US Was Founded on Stolen Indigenous Land—This July 4, Let’s Commit to Returning It

 So a Native American Chief has decided to take them up on their proclamation of "returning stolen land to the natives" - starting with their headquarters:

Daily Mail: Ben & Jerry's is accused of hypocrisy for calling on the US to hand over all 'stolen indigenous land' when its HQ sits on Native American soil in Vermont - as local chief calls for woke ice cream company to engage in talks

Certainly one thing for  Ben & Jerry's to emote about "returning" soemthing they don't own - Mt. Rushmore -  to the Lakota (even as the Lakota's claim is historically complicated - it's quite another for Ben & Jerry's to give up something they actually own.

But since Ben & Jerry's has piously declared that "The US was founded on stolen Indigenous land. This year, let’s commit to returning it.",  Let's see how  committed they are to their principles and their declaration of  "returning" the "stolen land"  when it is their headquarters that should be "returned" to the natives there, in Vermont.

Perhaps one should crack open a non-Ben & Jerry's pint of ice cream and sit back and watch the show.

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