Feb. 14, 2017 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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| I'd like to offer a sincere apology to the lady in this picture whose face I've covered even though I didn't originally when I tweeted this out because I've been particularly thoughtless and I take full responsibility for your inconvenience. | |
| This was something that I didn't see coming and so now I have to explain what I was doing with a tweet which just goes to show you be careful what you do on social media. | |
| So I was shopping in Cardiff last weekend and we went into Lush and one of the employees, as you can see here, had a black t-shirt on with feminist written on it. | |
| This seems like an obvious political statement by Lush to me and I've since heard, although I haven't confirmed, that the store actually made her wear it as part of some campaign. | |
| And even if they didn't make her wear it, they still condoned her wearing something so obviously political. | |
| I mean, would they also allow their employees to just wear communist or fascist or any kind of issue, any ideological position that's obviously divisive? | |
| Why would a store be backing this? | |
| Unless they were trying to be like the New McDonald's, oh, we're a progressive burger store and all that sort of nonsense. | |
| And if that's the case, I think people should be aware of that. | |
| I think people should be aware of these political positions that corporations take so we can use market forces against them. | |
| This is why I tweeted out. | |
| Lush in Cardiff, employee with feminist t-shirt. | |
| I mean, I thought, honestly, I honestly thought it was obvious that I was saying Lush, the shop, the location, so people could confirm it if they wanted to. | |
| I didn't expect people to find who this girl was and then call her names on the internet. | |
| I mean, I've always said, and I consistently say, and maybe I don't say it often enough, don't contact the subjects of my videos unless it's a positive thing, you know? | |
| Like, you know, if you're going to send them like a nice message on Twitter, find no one minds a nice message on Twitter. | |
| No one minds a deluge of nice messages on Twitter, but don't fucking contact the people I do videos on. | |
| There is no good that comes of it. | |
| They're not interested. | |
| If they're the opposition, you know, if they're the people who are the die-hard ideologues, and they're not going to change their position, you'll get nothing out of it. | |
| You'll just cause trouble. | |
| And if it's someone who is like this lady, I think, caught in the crossfire, then she gets unnecessarily targeted. | |
| And it just doesn't do any good. | |
| I would really, really like everyone to remember that my stance is, just don't talk to them. | |
| Just don't talk to them. | |
| And as part of this campaign of non-interaction, don't go to Lush and Cardiff. | |
| If they're going to make their employees wear feminist t-shirts, don't fucking go there. | |
| You know, if you should be a savvy consumer and attack their wallets wherever you can, but don't go and tweet random shit at someone who apparently was forced to wear this t-shirt. | |
| That's awful. | |
| And the thing is, that's my fault because I didn't think hard enough about what I'd done. | |
| And so now I would like everyone to understand, I really don't want you to victimize people. | |
| I really don't want you to go after them. | |
| It's not like a secret message. | |
| It's not a click of code. | |
| It's I literally don't want you to contact them. | |
| Literally don't do it. | |
| There's no good of it. | |
| Sure, if it's like a public figure and you want to tweet them, you go ahead. | |
| That's up to you. | |
| But I don't want you to do it. | |
| Just, I don't know how to stress this firmly enough. | |
| And again, I was talking about the store. | |
| If you have a problem with Lush, and you may well do, knowing that they had a feminist, like forced feminist t-shirt wearing in one of their stores, if you've got a problem with the Cardiff store, go and complain to the store. | |
| Say, look, why are you pushing political agendas? | |
| Do that. | |
| But don't go after the staff in some sort of vigilante way, because this is exactly the problem that I have, and everyone should have with vigilante justice. | |
| It's not justice. | |
| It's just you presuming. | |
| And you can't do that. | |
| And if you sent her a nasty message, you should send her an apology. | |
| And this is, I don't, I haven't linked her Twitter or anything like that. | |
| I don't know it. | |
| I don't even know what her name is. | |
| But I don't want people going after her. | |
| And she's done nothing wrong. | |
| I mean, I didn't write Feminist in Cardiff or like Fat Girl in Cardiff. | |
| I wrote Lush and Cardiff for a reason. | |
| But I guess, again, it's my fault. | |
| I should have been more clear about what my intent was with this picture. | |
| Totally my fault. | |
| And again, to the lady in the picture, I am I'm honestly sorry that I didn't I didn't think. | |
| I really didn't. | |
| I was just thinking, oh here we go, another fucking, another fucking chain store all over the country pushing an agenda. | |
| For fuck's sake, this shit is everywhere. | |
| And so, right. | |
| See, feminist t-shirt and Lush and Cardiff from a staff member. | |
| Either condoned or forced to wear. | |
| You know, it just. | |
| I am really sorry. |
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