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Walmart removes Coke display in shape of doomed World Trade Center

Ikari said:
College students say lots of dumb things. I don't think that's indicative of some aggregate "backlash" that is intensifying every year about remembering 9/11.
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It's always the intention of companies to sell their product to people. Doing things like this is just another way to do it, like that 9/11 Budweiser commercial.
 
Why is this even an issue? 9/11's happen all the time in the Middle-East. It happens here and 15 years later we're... here...
 
TheGoverness said:
It's always the intention of companies to sell their product to people. Doing things like this is just another way to do it, like that 9/11 Budweiser commercial.
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Quite so. But I also wouldn't say that those upset with companies exploiting 9/11 to hock wares means there some general backlash against remembering 9/11 in general.
 
Only a whiny culture of idiots would care about this.
 
TheGoverness said:
It's always the intention of companies to sell their product to people. Doing things like this is just another way to do it, like that 9/11 Budweiser commercial.
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Good morning, TheGoverness. :2wave:

:agree: That commercial, which was only aired once so it wouldn't look like Budweiser was trying to profit from the horror which took place, was the most powerful I have ever seen! To see those beautiful horses bow in homage to those who lost their lives in NYC on 9/11 still makes me cry, as I'm doing right now. :peace
 
Crovax said:
Walmart removes Coke display in shape of doomed World Trade Center - Yahoo Finance

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I dont think it's insensitive, it seems like the backlash against remembering 9/11 gets worse every year.
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As I see it, it's just cheesy.

Two stacks of 30 packs of Coke don't exactly provoke deep thinking or reverence.
 
Ikari said:
Exactly, this isn't backlash against remembering 9/11. Some people are upset that WalMart and Coke are exploiting the tragedy of 9/11 to sell Coke.
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Exactly. Everyone knows the hot new drug of today is meth and bath salts.
 
If this was done as a charitable act, it would still be in bad taste, as its done to shift Coke out the door, classless, I expect nothing more from a company who exploits there employees.

Walmart are not the only one trying to make a buck off 9/11, this matress retailer totally failed with there 9/11 video.

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Ikari said:
Quite so. But I also wouldn't say that those upset with companies exploiting 9/11 to hock wares means there some general backlash against remembering 9/11 in general.
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Neither would I.
 
polgara said:
Good morning, TheGoverness. :2wave:

:agree: That commercial, which was only aired once so it wouldn't look like Budweiser was trying to profit from the horror which took place, was the most powerful I have ever seen! To see those beautiful horses bow in homage to those who lost their lives in NYC on 9/11 still makes me cry, as I'm doing right now. :peace
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Yes, that was an amazing commerical.

But most of Budwiser's Super Bowl commercials are very good.
 
chuckiechan said:
As I see it, it's just cheesy.

Two stacks of 30 packs of Coke don't exactly provoke deep thinking or reverence.
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It doesn't have to be deep, just a symbol so that we never forget. Ask the average joe which "date will live in infamy" and they don't have a clue what day it is.
 
Crovax said:
There are plenty more examples of companies and groups trying to remember 9/11 and getting attacked for doing it.

AT&T apologizes for 9/11 tweet
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Probably more the time of year than anything, but now that we've gotten rid of that bothersome 200 year old battle flag, and white lives no longer mattering, it's time to move on to other things to be offended about.

If I had wandered into this WalMart and noticed this display I would have marveled at the creativity and then paused a moment remembering 9/11 and what it meant to me.

Wouldn't make me by Coke though.
 
Crovax said:
It doesn't have to be deep, just a symbol so that we never forget. Ask the average joe which "date will live in infamy" and they don't have a clue what day it is.
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12/7/1941. ;)
 
This is why lots of people are getting tired of Political Correctness.
 
Crovax said:
It doesn't have to be deep, just a symbol so that we never forget. Ask the average joe which "date will live in infamy" and they don't have a clue what day it is.
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Because some things end up living in the past because they are part of the past and at some level we need to get over it. We're much closer to 2041 than 1941 at this point. And we have memorials and we have our history to remember, but we don't need to be upset about it any longer. We handled it. In far less time than now. The final stage of grief is acceptance. It doesn't mean we shouldn't learn lessons or behave haphazardly in the face of tragedy. But we can move on.

And there will be a day when people say 9/11 and won't immediately think of the twin towers. It too will fall to the past, it's just part of the process of progressing forward. We cannot make our way to tomorrow by living in the past.
 
TheGoverness said:
Nothing's wrong with it, it just doesn't seem like the best marketing decision to me.
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I really don't see the problem with remembering 9/11. I'm more tired of the constant whining and complaining, looking to find something to be offended over. That's going to destroy this country faster than any war. I remember 9/11, I was at work. Someone got a TV and we watch the 2nd aircraft hit the tower. I am not offended by that Coke display at all.
 
American said:
I really don't see the problem with remembering 9/11. I'm more tired of the constant whining and complaining, looking to find something to be offended over. That's going to destroy this country faster than any war. I remember 9/11, I was at work. Someone got a TV and we watch the 2nd aircraft hit the tower. I am not offended by that Coke display at all.
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I'm not offened by it either. Nor do I have a problem with people remembering 9/11.
 
Ikari said:
Because some things end up living in the past because they are part of the past and at some level we need to get over it. We're much closer to 2041 than 1941 at this point. And we have memorials and we have our history to remember, but we don't need to be upset about it any longer. We handled it. In far less time than now. The final stage of grief is acceptance. It doesn't mean we shouldn't learn lessons or behave haphazardly in the face of tragedy. But we can move on.

And there will be a day when people say 9/11 and won't immediately think of the twin towers. It too will fall to the past, it's just part of the process of progressing forward. We cannot make our way to tomorrow by living in the past.
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If muslim terrorism is as far in the past as imperial Japan maybe we might forget but I don't see that happening.
 
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