Yes, the initial story was overblown - Blaze posted the picture of Kyle along with a coupon code for BRC, which made it into an endorsement without their approval...I understand that part of it.
However, their response after all the hubbub was weak. All they had to say was it's a free country and Kyle gets his day in court like any American. They had a very negative tone and that was a mistake. Their communication was very poor and they deserve some backlash for it given who their customer base is.
Which I totally understand. It was weak for sure but they totally blew a lie out of proportion, just like the left does constantly and now look, we're arguing amongst ourselves about a business that probably 95% of us don't even patronize.
Yeah, unfortunately "we" have all been responding a little too strongly to perceived slights lately. Just look at the whole Tim Pool meltdown. The guy hasn't changed at all, but because he didn't say exactly what some people wanted to hear, now he's the enemy. His views haven't gone down though, so it's just a small number of vocal people trying to cancel someone - just like angry leftists do. We need to keep a big tent if we want to win, and tossing out people who have red pilled more normies than all of us combined is counter productive.
Yes, the initial story was overblown - Blaze posted the picture of Kyle along with a coupon code for BRC, which made it into an endorsement without their approval...I understand that part of it.
However, their response after all the hubbub was weak. All they had to say was it's a free country and Kyle gets his day in court like any American. They had a very negative tone and that was a mistake. Their communication was very poor and they deserve some backlash for it given who their customer base is.
Which I totally understand. It was weak for sure but they totally blew a lie out of proportion, just like the left does constantly and now look, we're arguing amongst ourselves about a business that probably 95% of us don't even patronize.
Yeah, unfortunately "we" have all been responding a little too strongly to perceived slights lately. Just look at the whole Tim Pool meltdown. The guy hasn't changed at all, but because he didn't say exactly what some people wanted to hear, now he's the enemy. His views haven't gone down though, so it's just a small number of vocal people trying to cancel someone - just like angry leftists do. We need to keep a big tent if we want to win, and tossing out people who have red pilled more normies than all of us combined is counter productive.