Unfavorable reactions to Friday night time’s Olympic opening ceremony continued to pour in, and at the least one firm introduced it was pulling its advertisements, whereas a boycott motion was trending on Twitter.
I personally discovered the present boring more often than not, offensive the remaining, and I puzzled why the organizers did not take into account that they could not management the climate. (Although, to be honest, the laser present on the finish and Celine Dion’s efficiency have been high quality highlights.)
What was this even?
Home Speaker Mike Johnson disgusted by ‘surprising and humiliating’ Olympic opener
Bishop Barron pulls Paris Olympics ‘Final Supper’: ‘Would they dare mock Islam in the identical means?’
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One firm is not taking it mendacity down, saying they’re “shocked by the irony”:
That is company braveness. đź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Ź https://t.co/rZn8ZmRnKx
— Robbie Starbuck (@robisterbuck) July 27, 2024
C Spire is not a behemoth, however the Mississippi-based telecommunications and know-how firm has a reported market cap of greater than $348 million, in order that they’re no person.
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves supported the corporate’s transfer:
I am proud to see the non-public sector step up and put their foot down in Mississippi. God won’t be mocked. C Spire attracts a standard sense, applicable line. https://t.co/R38yJye97I
— Governor Tate Reeves (@tatereeves) July 27, 2024
Will probably be attention-grabbing to see if different corporations observe go well with. In the meantime, a boycott motion has gained traction on Twitter/X:
1000’s of social media customers have threatened to boycott Paris Olympics after that The opening ceremony was extensively panned Friday
Offended spectators took to the X the place #boycottOlympics and #boycottParis2024 trended the subsequent day.
Particularly, the looks of a ‘bare blue man’ in a scene likened to the Final Supper angered many viewers, particularly Christians.
I am going to spare you any image of the “Bare Blue Man”.
Whereas French President Emmanuel Macron praised the occasion, European Parliament member Marion Marechal tried to maintain her distance. republic From the present:
All of the Christians of the world are watching #Paris2024 Really feel insulted by this drag queen parody of the ceremony and the Final Supper, know that it’s not France that’s talking however a left-wing minority prepared for any provocation. #notinmyname
For all Christians on this planet… pic.twitter.com/GusP2TR63u
— Marion Marechal (@MarionMarechal) July 26, 2024
The #BoycottOlympics tag is seeing lots of motion on X, with many reactions too heated to put up right here. Here is a pattern of the tamer sentiment displayed:
The devoted destruction of the household unit on full show on the Olympics….
Direct diss to each dad or mum making an attempt to boost youngsters with first rate values. #Olympics boycott
I wrote earlier on Saturday about how I used to be watching the Tremendous Bowl with my seven-year-old in 2004 when Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake determined it was a good time to be badass. Athletic occasions aren’t the venue for these occasions:
It is most likely unimaginable to fully divorce politics from sports activities, particularly throughout worldwide occasions, however there isn’t any cause to deliver triads, drag queens and mockery of Christianity into the sport. It appears like they went out of their technique to be aggressive—they usually succeeded.
It stays to be seen how a lot the backlash impacts the video games and whether or not extra advertisers pull their cash from NBC. My first intuition is to say no—folks will overlook and begin specializing in the true competitors, and the sort of people that thought up this rubbish within the first place will proceed to attempt to shove it down our throats.
Nevertheless, I have been fallacious earlier than—and I am glad I did—as a result of I believed the Bud Gentle/Dylan Mulvaney fiasco would rapidly fade from the headlines, but the corporate misplaced billions as a result of its defrauded prospects let their voices be heard.
May we be in for a repeat?
