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Ben & Jerry's is awfully smug and lippy for a sub-brand of a massive Anglo-Dutch conglomerate

Greg Crosby

By Greg Crosby

Published July 7, 2023

 Ben & Jerry's is awfully smug and lippy for a sub-brand of a massive Anglo-Dutch conglomerate

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In a hateful 4th of July message Marxist, anti-American ice cream brand, Ben & Jerry's (or as I call them, Dumb & Dumber) has used social media to call for the Biden administration to return "stolen indigenous land." Specifically the company said in a tweet, "The United States was founded on stolen indigenous land. This Fourth of July, let's commit to returning it."

The blowhard ice cream authoritarians posted to its 494,000+ followers on Twitter that the time has come for the U.S. government to act. The company went on to propose the U.S. should "start with Mount Rushmore," and detailed the history of the iconic mount and its significance to indigenous Americans, writing, "What is the meaning of Independence Day for those whose land this country stole, those who were murdered and forced with brutal violence onto reservations, those who were pushed from their holy places and denied their freedom.

"The faces on Mount Rushmore are the faces of men who actively worked to destroy Indigenous cultures and ways of life, to deny Indigenous people their basic rights." This is the same company, remember, that announced in 2021 that it would no longer sell its products in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. I suppose they would really like Israel to give up their country totally to the Arabs. But first America must give all the land back to the Indians.

The social media tweet caused an avalanche of blowback from people who actually love their country. "The scumbags at Ben & Jerry's spent the 4th of July trashing America," Outkick reporter David Hookstead wrote. "Why worry about China when American companies will gladly share anti-American propaganda? Disgusting and shameful. Never apologize for loving America!

Senator Mike Lee from Utah said, "[Ben & Jerry]'s are awfully smug and lippy for a sub-brand of the massive Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever. I'm not sure they fully understand the legacy of the respective Dutch and British colonial powers." Another writer asked if it is "Time to ÔBud Light' Ben and Jerry's? Stop supporting companies that hate you and America." Some pointed out the hypocrisy of the Ben & Jerry's comments since the company's land sits on so-called indigenous lands.

One writer said in response, "But seriously now, close shop, or better yet, donate your business and everything you own in these lands that rightfully belong to the indigenous people, apologize to them, and return to the continent your ancestors came from. Now."

"Ben and Jerry's corporate office is in South Burlington, VT. Home of the Abenaki people. There are 3,200 of them still residing in the area," a person on Twitter wrote. "Ben and Jerry's- give them their land back." "The Ben & Jerry's factory is located in Waterbury, Vermont," posted Yahoo News senior correspondent Michael Weiss. "I look forward to the board of directors' voting to turn their property over to the indigenous people who rightfully own this land."

The real stupidity of the Ben & Jerry social media post is that it's impossible to give all the land back. If our government did give all the land back to the indigenous people that would mean that the United States of America as a nation is completely finished because technically all of North America was Indian land before the Europeans came. Or maybe that's what Ben & Jerry's really want. The end of the U.S.

When Ben & Jerry's sold out to Unilever, the multinational food behemoth agreed to carry on the company's tradition of engaging "in these critical, global economic and social missions." Both Ben and Jerry themselves stayed on at the company, but not in positions of operational or managerial responsibility. So it's hard to know for certain where the leftist ideology is emanating from. Is it coming directly from the original leftists, Ben and Jerry? Or is it being directed from Unilever?

In the end it doesn't matter because whoever is behind it is the group that operates the ice cream brand. So if you don't agree with their Marxist destructive ideology, the easy answer is don't support them. Just stop buying the stuff. Do a Bud Light to Ben & Jerry's. Idiots.

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