Posted on 05/24/2022 1:17:00 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
State Farm quickly distanced itself from a program that pushed books about gender fluidity on young children Monday after a new ad campaign slammed the insurance giant as "a creepy neighbor," but Consumers' Research thinks the insurance giant still has to "undo the damage" it caused.
"Yesterday we launched our ad campaign calling out State Farm for donating books aimed at kindergartners on the topics of transgenderism and being non-binary… now they claim that they have ended their partnership with the GenderCool Project," Consumers' Research executive director Will Hild told Fox News Digital, calling the turn of events "an indication of how much power consumers have."
An email from a whistleblower provided to Consumers’ Research, which the organization provided to Fox News Digital, indicated that State Farm urged Florida agents to take action and provide LGBTQ+ books to children through a partnership with the GenderCool program – which describes itself as "helping replace misinformed opinions with positive experiences meeting transgender and non-binary youth who are thriving."
Consumers’ Research, a nonprofit that aims to "increase the knowledge and understanding of issues, policies, products, and services of concern to consumers and to promote the freedom to act on that knowledge and understanding," launched the website LikeACreepyNeighbor.com, where information and ways to take action against State Farm were provided. The group also created a 30-second ad, titled "Like a Creepy Neighbor," which mocked the company’s slogan, and began with a narrator declaring that State Farm says it's a good neighbor before asking, "But would a good neighbor target five-year olds for conversation about sexual identity?"
A few hours after Consumers’ Research campaign went live, State Farm emailed employees, announcing they would no longer be participating in the GenderCool program.
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Exactly. We can’t let them off the hook just by saying “oops we’ll stop”. We should be demanding wokist heads on pikes.
Looks like Jake from State Farm drives a white van.
Obama is there…
What a brilliant response to State Farm. However, I don’t think State Farm acted quickly enough to undo the damage. They’re going to pay dearly.
Until I see an article about State Farm firing the people responsible for this fiasco, they can go pound sand.
100% agree. Look at Mr. Soto's profile on LinkedIn -- he's a nice, normal guy without a trace of homo / pedophilia / trans tendencies. Something as controversial as this had to be initiated and signed off way up the ranks. I'd wager that Soto was told to put it out or lose his job. He should have quit.
His capsule statement: "I serve as a proactive community and media relationship maker and facilitator in promoting, managing and strengthening the State Farm brand among communities in Florida and with State Farm national Hispanic relationships." He should have known that communities in Florida and Hispanic folks would not like this crap.
Mr. Soto put up a link to this doc: Kids & Parents enjoy Learning at Home. There isn't a SINGLE mention of "Let's talk to your little tykes about the joys of sex."
In an agency based company, agent feedback is king but until I see that they’ve addressed the people that came up with this fiasco, their program may as well still be in place. If they truly believe it is a bad business idea, they’ll get rid of those responsible for putting their brand in harm’s way and cost them customer’s and money.
Jake from State Farm is a child groomer? Who knew?
“Groomers have infested every single level of society. Rooting them out won’t be pleasant.”
But thanks to modern technology it can be efficient!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0fTcTBfJk
So, State Farm, how many leftists who created this mess for you have been fired? And if none, then why?
People like that need to be put on a blacklist of “potential pedophiles”, so that other corporations also do not make the mistake of hiring them.
We dumped State Farm about the same time that Jake became black. Sick and tired of the lack of diversity in advertising.
Consumers’ Research did a great job with this.
What does Jake think?
State Farm Insurance
Customer Relations
Dear Sir:
I am only somewhat relieved to see that you have wisely decided to separate from the GenderCool project. What I would like to see is for you to also take public action to reverse the effect of your foolish support of such a group.
I see on your National Community Relationships page that you partner with a number of LGBTQ type organizations and others I also do not support.
As a general observation I wonder why a company such as SF supports any interest organization? If you can’t support all of them why support any that some, most or all of your customers and shareholders are opposed to? Why not just remain socially and politically neutral and sell insurance, service your customers and make money for your shareholders? Aren’t those your real or only responsibilities? Why take on an often objectionable obligation to step in as a public servant instead of just letting the people and philanthropies do that job? This corporate role in society is one I will never understand. It is counterproductive to your first obligation to make money for your shareholders. I doubt most would have any opposition to that consideration. If they do perhaps they should find an entity whose mission is social cause and not making money. I have no doubt that there are an ample number of investors who are only interested in buying your stock for profit. People who might enjoy your profitability can decide on their own what to support with their own money on their own time.
You should be very thankful to ______ your excellent agent in ______ for my continuing patronage of SF as my insurance carrier. He is the first reason I chose SF in the group of contenders I considered to bundle my insurance and the only reason I am reluctant to change carriers. Someone you know, trust and have reason to count on is worth more than a small change in premium.
Yup—well done.
This is a great example of how our side can use Alinsky tactics against our enemies.
Name and shame the dirtballs—and have fun doing it.
Good work by the agents.
Everyone needs to stand up and be counted—and make a lot of noise...
There will be many many more of these skirmishes to be won.
Perhaps we should look at the organization closer to consider supporting them?
I blame United Way for some of this mess. They burrowed into the board room and got execs to become socially active. Social activity is something execs, employees and customers should do on their own time with their own money leaving the company out of it. If they have time for this kind of thing in the board room they have more time they should be spending to make money for their shareholders, improving their product and service to their customers and making the company a better place to work for more productive and profit making employees.
There is only one reason for a company, making money. Leave the social engineering to people and philanthropies. Whoever got this social obligation thing going found a muddle brained chump to prey on. A well run company accomplishes societal obligations with well off shareholders who can spend their money how they want to and happy employees that can do what they want to on their own time with their own money.
The support for Gendercool has not been stopped by State Farm. Their logo is still on gendercool’s website.
+1
You were much too pleasant and reasonable.
If it was my insurance company I would have been much tougher, using language like “raw evil” and “advocating child abuse”.
I would have demanded that every single executive who signed off on the travesty be publicly named and publicly fired.
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