The funny thing is it's not conservatives who destroyed this, even though it's an obvious attempt to pander to young social justice warriors, cop-haters and Trump-haters. Conservatives don't really do that. They'll comment on how awful it is, but they won't go to town with endless social media mockery and demand reprisals. You know perfectly well that's the game of the left, and that's what sunk this piece of garbage:
The problem? Apparently you can't put a white woman at the center of protest against the blue-eyed white devil - especially a really rich one - and I suppose it should go without saying that you can't co-opt the SJW movement for the purpose of a corporatist product push.
Let a black man hand that Pepsi to the cop and he's probably getting billy-clubbed within seconds!
I guess.
The noisiest voices on the left will eat you alive if you presume to be down with the cause, but fail in any way to comply with all the prerequisites.
To wit:
and to think, all rodney king needed to avoid that beating was a pepsi
I have never had a Twitter account, and it used to be that a lot of people would tell me I really was missing out by not having one. For awhile there I wondered if they might be right. I don't anymore. When this is the sort of nonsense that takes over Twitter in the course of a day, I'm pleased as punch to stay away from it.
Pepsi's quick retreat shows just how fruitless it is for corporations to try to mollify this crowd. They think the kids these days are all into social justice - and they love their Kardashians! - so why not combine the two and make social justice warrior protesters into heroes, disarming the dastardly cops with a single can of the Drink For A New Generation?
Here's what they don't understand: The percocious left that lives on Twitter lies in wait for an excuse to mock and destroy anyone. They don't care who it is. They just want an excuse to spend the day humiliating you for whatever offense or for no reason whatsoever. Once it takes on a life of its own, they all follow, and your attempt to become the cool corporation of the moment has just blown up in your face.
That's how Pepsi lost the left today. Those of us on the right? We were Coke drinkers all along because Pepsi tastes like ****. For some of us it really is that simple and sensible.
