Conor McGregor Megathread *Mod Warning in OP Updated 20th April*

Another 15000 stores in UK no longer selling the drinks - I reckon we’ll hear news of Forged heading towards oblivion shortly - while I don’t like to see innocent people losing their jobs I think it’s an inevitability

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/uks-largest-independent-drinks-retailer-latest-to-pull-conor-mcgregor-products-following-nikita-hand-civil-rape-case/a320062846.html

Would it be ok to stock it if ppl do still want to buy it?

alot of ppl stopped going to easons after Ryan tubridy association

Just to clarify: I didn't imply that rape is woke or PC gone mad. I'm not downplaying the seriousness of it at all. What I do have issue with is the act of retailers - tripping over themselves to be ahead of the others to withdraw his products, making a big public announcement and using it as a publicity stunt. That I consider PC.

“That I consider PC.”

No I think it’s just common sense and a bit of cop on actually - no retailer wants to be called out for supporting this character in any way - that would damage their bottom line - making a public announcement has little to do with political correctness and a lot to do with ensuring their customers keep coming through their doors and avoiding any bad publicity that will impact their profits. You’ll probably find that any retailer still selling the products will be called out at least on social media - it’s not worth the hassle and the negative publicity to a retailer to leave themselves exposed to that - it’s pounds shillings and pence not political correctness that’s the main driver here

ItsIt's up to the retailer whether to stock a product or not. Don't have a clue what easons & tubridy have in common, never heard a thing about that

Even if he won the case his brand image was destroyed here

I get what you meant however it was always going to be a hard sell around here! It's similar to multinationals who are all about Pride here but strangely silent on it in countries where there is real work to be done.

You have issue with them announcing they're withdrawing his products, but you also have issue with them removing his products in the first place.

You attribute the retailers announcing they're removing his products as a "publicity stunt" but also fail to address the fact that those products are now associated with someone who was found liable for rape (not criminally, but in a civil case), and so for retailers who sell his products, they want to eliminate that association. You can call it a publicity stunt or PC or wokeness, but it's also more simply protecting their own reputations by removing their association with McGregor's products and therefore with McGregor himself.

They also may not have wanted people coming in looking for McGregor's products given that they're about to become a rarity of an item or because they want to demonstrate their own support for McGregor and so announced that it'll no longer be on their shelves.

Sorry T-Maxx, but the simple fact is that keeping McGregor's products on their shelves would be bad for business, so retailers are just removing it and saying "Hey, this sh*t's no longer on sale here" and moving on because doing anything else would simply not be worth it. It's not like retailers have been putting hashtags with Nikita Hand's name, or #believeallwomen or anything. They're just removing his sh*t. The idea that doing so is in any way "woke" or "PC" continues the trend of rendering those completely undefined and spurious terms utterly meaningless.

Exactly

I've clarified my stance on rape already.

The Hitler VW example is one of many examples of products which would have been cancelled in this day and age.

I'm not a mcgregor fanboy either.

Have you got figured out what PC means yet?

You're clearly talking nonsense, and that might not be your fault. I think your understanding of a few things you are posting about is poor.

Was museum didn’t “fall over itself” removing the McGregor statue- it was gone after the first week of the trial- excellent decision and not a “bandwagon” in sight.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/1128/1483628-conor-mcgregor-statue/

Perhaps 'virtue signalling ' would have been a better term, doctor.

T-Maxx never linked rape with being woke. Poster never made this point. He is being misread, and deliberately so from some.

It will never cease to amaze me that someone as privileged as Candace Owens does this type of **** to appeal to people she'd never go near.