Don’t Act So Shocked About Bud Light’s Virtue Signaling

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Don’t Act So Shocked About Bud Light’s Virtue Signaling
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'Corporations are not your friends, my friend. They’ll do whatever performative displays of 'correct' politics they need to, whenever they need to,' writes mattklewis

Bud Light realized they had made a huge mistake and apologizedSince then, the pandering has reached parody proportions. The latest reports suggest some of Bud Light’s packaging will be—you know, because fashion patterns associated with military combat are manly. Subtlety is clearly not their thing.

The problem with virtue signaling as a business strategy is that virtue is in the eye of the beholder. One man’s virtue is another man’s vice. Enter the Republican Party, which has “pounced” on Bud Light. If corporations are amoral actors, so too is today’s GOP. But those days are long gone. Today’s GOP is decidedly about using power to 1) squash ideas associated with the left and 2) favor ideas associated with the cultural right.of Anheuser-Busch’s brief partnership with Mulvaney, based on the notion that Mulvaney’s prominent presence on TikTok and Instagram constitutes marketing alcohol to minors.

Despite winning numerous elections, conservatives still feel like they have lost their grip on the current culture. Mainly because

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