...I'm going to go out on a limb and guess they're former employees now.
The owner issued a statement saying that this was not an authorized advertisement. It was produced by the employees and uploaded to Facebook of their own accord.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess they're former employees now.
I doubt it. The girl in the video is the owners daughter.
Bored and looking for a laugh, read their Facbook page. Their business is toast.
I don't know how I feel about the above. I mean, that's a lot of work put into that display, and the superimposition of the towers over the flag doesn't seem distasteful to me, but having the medium be a commercial product for the sake of selling said product kind of rubs me the wrong way.
In any case much less awful than the mattress ad.
I have a modest proposal to put forward.
There are many ways in which humor can be perhaps uncouth and positive simultaneously.
Comedians can address social wrongs, attack the government, and address grievances that is not tasteful but rather provocative, causing thought and contemplation.
Humor can also assuage pain and lessen the blow of horror, as in the use of gallows humor. To some it may be inappropriate, but this is, to my mind, shallow thinking in some cases. Consider the old introduction to the story in Law & Order. One of the detectives always used a gallows humor quip. While to the uninitiated this may have seemed callous, but I rather believe it a positive psychological mechanism to deal with the pain and horror witnessed by those officers on a daily basis.
This, however, is to my thinking a vile and scurrilous example of a total lack of compassion or empathy. This does not attempt to deal with pain or redress an injustice but rather is done only to profiteer off of pain and suffering.
Their bankruptcy will be a positive affirmation of the free market working as it should.
Regards,
Doug
I don't know how I feel about the above. I mean, that's a lot of work put into that display, and the superimposition of the towers over the flag doesn't seem distasteful to me, but having the medium be a commercial product for the sake of selling said product kind of rubs me the wrong way.
In any case much less awful than the mattress ad.
I don't mind a company donating. What would be the problem with that?Coca Cola gave between 1 and 2 million dollars to the 9/11 memorial.
Our Donors | National September 11 Memorial & Museum
I don't mind a company donating. What would be the problem with that?
Think of it like if they had donated on the condition that their logo be put on the side of the monument. That's kind of the way I'm seeing that store display.
I'm following your logic. I just feel conflicted on how tasteful it is. Case in point the image is being used by some anti-capitalists as a "see, look how they profit on suffering". I think it's silly to take the angle to that extent though.Nothing wrong with that.
You said you didn't know how to feel about Coca Cola having that display at Walmart, I think their donation to build the 9/11 meorial makes it okay for them to do so.
It's not entirelly for profit contrary to that mattress store.
Not sure I'm being clear in my logic.