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> Lee wrote
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>> We do not have to accept mentally ill sexual perverts who can't
>> decide what gender they are today. Lock them up away from children.
Many American consumers have launched a boycott campaign against Bud Light
one of the biggest-selling beers in the USA.
ABC reports that critics of Bud Light burned empty beer boxes and fired
bullets at cans as part of an anti-trans backlash against the brand that
erupted early last month. Since then, the anger has grown.
Sales of Bud Light have recorded declines for six consecutive weeks after
a product endorsement from Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender influencer, set
off ire among many conservatives.
In early April, Bud Light sent Mulvaney a handful of beers. Mulvaney, in
turn, posted a video of herself using said beers to celebrate both March
Madness and her first year of womanhood. One of the cans featured her
image.
It was part of a paid sponsorship deal and promotion for some sort of
sweepstakes challenge where people can win $15,000 from Bud Light by
sending in videos of themselves carrying a lot of beers.
This made some people upset because Mulvaney is transgender.
Boycott of Bud Light grows larger
Consumer boycotts typically fizzle but this one has expanded for an array
of reasons: a hot-button political controversy over a product with ample
alternatives, outcry from political figures and celebrities and
amplification on social media, experts told ABC News.
The boycott grew even larger, meanwhile, after the initial response from
the company was perceived as conciliatory by some LGBTQ advocates,
prompting a wave of frustration on the left, the experts added.
“Generally, boycotts get called and have very little effect,” Gerald
Davis, a professor of organizational behavior at the Michigan University
Graduate School of Business. “For now, everybody is mad,” he told ABC.
Sales of Bud Light fell nearly 25% over the week ending on May 13 compared
to the same period a year ago, according to data from Bump Williams
Consulting and Nielsen NIQ obtained by ABC News.
The most recent decline showed a deepening of losses after a drop of some
23% the week prior compared to a year ago and a roughly 7% year-over-year
drop for the week ending on April 9, soon after the boycott began, the
data showed.
The fallout has led to two of the company’s top marketing executives being
put on leave of absence. Sales of other Anheuser-Busch brands also
continued to drop, albeit at a slower rate than the week before.
Those included Budweiser, down 9.7% versus an 11.4% drop a week earlier;
Michelob Ultra, down 2.9% versus 4.3%; and Natural Light, down 2.5% versus
5.2% the previous week.
Meanwhile, sales of rival beers have surged. Sales of Pabst Blue Ribbon
were up 21.6% in the week of May 6 — slightly up from the 18.9% spike the
previous week. Miller High Life gained 10.4% in sales compared to an 8.3%
bump over the same time period the previous week, according to Bump
Williams and NielsenIQ data.
Trans issues are currently front and center in America’s culture war, Vox
reports.
Anti-trans sentiment is sweeping many corners of the right, targeting
children, drag shows, driver’s licenses, and health care, among other
areas. It’s showing up in conservative media and conservative legislation
and even working itself into the mainstream.
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