CANCELLED! Harry’s Shaves Off Michael Knowles After 2 Follower Twitter Account’s Complaint

NewsBusters ^ | 3/23/2021 | Joseph Vazquez

[JV3MRC]

Shaving company Harry’s appears to have taken the complaints of a Twitter user with only two followers seriously when shaving off its professional relationship with a conservative personality.

A Twitter account named Avi Das (@flyingsodacan1) — created in December 2020 — trigger-tweeted at Harry’s whining about its sponsorship of The Daily Wire host Michael Knowles. The account bleated, “@harrys is sponsoring Michael Knowles. The same @michaeljknowles who is spreading homophobic and transphobic content. He had Joesph [sic] Nicolosi jr as a guest on his show and equates being trans to having schizophrenia. It is wrong that Harry’s or anyone sponsors this vile content.” The Avi Das account only had two followers at the time of the response.

Harry’s, apparently trying to save face, responded 12 days later to the account in what appeared to be an official statement of policy, actually canceling its sponsorship of Knowles:

"Thanks for bringing this up. We condemn the views in this video, which are inexcusable & at odds with our longtime support of the LGBTQ+ community. We've ended our relationship with this show & are looking into our sponsorships to prevent any values misalignment going forward."

[ClearCase_guy]

I imagine transgenders make up most of Harry’s business.

No?

[al baby]

Blow me bish

[brownsfan]

I’ve never bought from Harry’s, now I never will.

[AppyPappy]

Who else can we get Harry’s to drop based on nothing?

[Robert DeLong]

All I know is Harry’s does not have my business, and if they did I would cancel immediately.

[JusPasenThru]

It’s really not virtue “signaling” anymore. “Virtue” is an evolving concept, and the LBGTETC community has appointed themselves as the arbiter. For those of you who would enjoy a 6 month-long migraine, read Alastair MacIntyre’s ‘After Virtue’.

Money quote:

“And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without grounds for hope. This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time.”

Excerpt From
After Virtue
Alasdair MacIntyre
https://books.apple.com/us/book/after-virtue/id1094672641
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[Sans-Culotte]

I’ve never bought from Harry’s, now I never will.

Ditto.

[deks]

I’ve ended my relationship with Harry’s products to prevent any values misalignment going forward.

[Lurker]

I’m going to cancel my Harry’s subscription today. And let them know why I did it.

L

[Flaming Conservative]

That’s too bad; Harry’s razors are great!

[Red Badger]

I thought this was about the Prince..................

[Sans-Culotte]

One could easily ask “why cancel over a 2-follower Twitter account?”; but Harry’s seems to wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments of the Twit, so there you go.

[Boogieman]

“He had Joesph [sic] Nicolosi jr as a guest on his show and equates being trans to having schizophrenia.”

That’s a ludicrous comparison. Schizophrenics usually understand they are nuts and are willing to take steps to mitigate their symptoms, unlike “trans” people.

[deks]

Re:Too bad, Harry’s razors are great

So too are Gillette... and I haven’t bought a single blade from them since their virtue signaling fiasco.

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

That’s too bad. I liked their razors.

They were probably looking for any excuse they could find in order to cut ties with Michael Knowles.

Another example of O’Sullivan’s Law.

[Bob434]

This is where we need a ,eader like Trump with his own social media network with millions of followers so that he could post so eating like this to let millions know about these kinds of things so that folks could protest en mass, with enough folks to make it financially unfeasible for companies to keep up their woke crap.

The only reason companies are ju,just, on the intimidation via woke canceling bus is because noone really fights back in large enough numbers to make a big enough impact.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Hopefully the ongoing woke antics of shaving companies like Gillette and now Harry’s will encourage more men to turn to double-edge razors like our grandparents used - or even straight razors, like our great-grandparents used. In addition to avoiding the left-wing blathering of these corporations, you’ll also get a better shave and save money.

[ScubaDiver]

For those who think this isn't a big deal, you're not paying attention. This is an enormous problem. While CNN enjoys advertising support from the biggest companies in the country, Fox News is largely ad-supported by a pillow manufacturer and gold brokers. That's it.

Soon - if not already - being a public conservative will not be a sustainable business model. People will further retreat into anonymous forums and whatnot. But, in the public square, no one who's not independently wealthy will be able to express any view that doesn't perfectly comport with the Democrat platform. I don't know what the answer is. But, I think it's foolish to believe that 1984-like censorship can only be instituted by the government. Ironically, Apple has become the very thing they parodied in that now-infamous commercial.

[nascarnation]

You have nailed it.
It’s like the old Soviet Union

Big govt/big business/big tech/big media in lockstep