Procter would like to think of itself as a good corporate citizen, and it is indeed very generous. But part of good citizenship is having a real ethical basis for your decisions, and taking responsibility for what your largess ultimately supports. Way, way too often P$G hands out money to destructive local groups just to get them to go away from their Ivory Towers.
Procter would like to think of itself as a good corporate citizen, and it is indeed very generous. But part of good citizenship is having a real ethical basis for your decisions, and taking responsibility for what your largess ultimately supports. Way, way too often P$G hands out money to destructive local groups just to get them to go away from their Ivory Towers.
Procter and Gamble has been a "progressive", (read leftist),
corporate bully for years.
They've managed to keep a low profile until recently, but they've always been in the shadows, pulling strings for a long time.
Their most noxious act of snobbery was to have a low cost hamburger establishment torn down so the local, indigent "trash" wouldn't be seen close to their new (then)
corporate site.
They bought the hamburger business, tore it down, and built a parking lot, which was next to their multi-story parking lot across the street.......
bttt
FGS
Gave up on them long ago. Arm and Hammer is listed by Consumer Reports to be an excellent laundry soap- and it is.
The best way to injure P&G is to point out that their products are not significantly better in quality and cost anywhere from 2 to 3 times as much as products that are just as adequate.
This is true of everything from Tide to Crest.
A whispering campaign about how expensive they are would be far more effective in injuring them.
So Dobson should not simply say, "Boycott Tide & Crest." He should say, "Folks, it is easy to boycott Tide & Crest because they COST significantly more than the other products, anyway. Join our boycott and YOU WILL SAVE money."
Incidentally, when in college I worked at one of P&G's tech labs in Cincy. (I have a degree of loyalty to them remaining, but they need to butt out of SOCIAL politics in the city.) But my job at the time put me in the direct position of comparing the performance of their products vs competitive products.
Many don't realize it, but if you could wash your clothing in distilled water, you'd get them just about as clean as with detergent. What you'd miss is the brightening agents.
There simply isn't that much difference between products. Not when 100 oz of one is on the shelf at 2.99 and Tide is on the shelf at 6.99. It's simple brand advertising that gets people to pay that much for a negligible cleaning difference.
It's gonna be tough to boycott them since they make everything on the planet.
I've been boycotting them for years for changing the formula for Head & Shoulders. I was a loyal customer for 25 years and felt pretty crapped on when they ruined my product. I can see adding variations, but keep the original for crying out loud.
Ping. Tide keeps my whites white and colors colored. Considering my modest domestic abilities, that transcends politics.
This brings up a point that is often overlooked - the fact that a shocking number of major corporations are quite leftist in nature. The list of supporters of racial preferences who sided (and ultimately won) with the University of Michigan in the Grutter decision included many from the Fortune 500 in addition to the ususal suspects.
The MBAs being graduated from schools like Harvard receive the same thorough leftist indoctrination that other Harvard students do, and it takes root in a certain number of cases. Gramsci's model for socialism is well under way.
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At least Dobson's not seeing Satanic symbols in P&G's logo. That alone makes me want to take a second look at his claims about them.
If this is the basis for the boycott then you need to boycott the Federal Government. This is the predominant philosophy in all government agencies.