Despicable Balenciaga
Thus far, Corporate America can’t bring itself to condemn Balenciaga’s disgusting Campaign. Will anyone?
It appears BALENCIAGA has decided the best move in dealing with the fallout for its perverted ad campaign is to blame the photographer, rather than their own marketing dept.
(To get a sense of the debauched nature of this ad campaign, take a look at Tucker Carlson’s monologue about it. Carlson alone, for the most part (along this Newsweek piece and few other conservative media outlets), have spoken out against it.)
In any case, anyone in the marketing business knows, it’s the brand’s responsibility to vet their own communications. There’s no way any ad like this gets out of any corporation without many checkpoints along the way. The photographer is a vendor, but ultimately hardly responsible for the final product. This concept would likely have needed many layers of approval.
Meanwhile, the very corrupt ad industry - who loves to pat themselves on their back for their social justice bona fides - remains eerily silent.
This is a sick #marketing campaign and an even more disgusting excuse (blaming the photog) by Balenciaga’s leadership.
We are living in a very evil time when Corporate America spends its time promoting trans/queer ideology (as in, the NHL is doing this, no less), but has nothing (so far) to say about this despicable campaign.
But here’s the thing: we too are complicit if we sit silently by. So many today choose to put their heads down, shrug and say what can I do?
The least we can do is speak out, write a simple email to the retailers (below) - if not for you, then for your children. And believe it: this moral sickness is eventually coming for everyone - and their kids. Our silence is actually paving the way for it.
The idea that you can inoculate yourselves from the rapidly-advancing moral rot, as exemplified by the Balencianga ad campaign, is the ultimate delusion many still cling to.
Especially, for those that call ourselves “Christians”, our deafening collective silence testifies against us. Praying isn’t enough. We are to be salt and light. We are to preserve the culture, not check out of it - especially when innocent (children) are under attack.
Christ requires action via his body - you and I, Christian, the church, are that body. In one sense, I, for once, agree with something the social justice warriors often say: silence is complicity.
A Corporate America, the media and, especially, an American church that can’t summon the courage to speak out against the exploitation of children, and against something as abhorrent as the Balenciaga ad campaign, is a testament to our virtually lifeless moral/spiritual condition.
#BoycottBalenciaga
(Neiman Marcus sells Balenciaga as does Nordstroms. Here‘s their customer complaint email links):