Is 'Cult' Billboard Offensive or Funny?
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2011/02/23 15:23:26
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Hacienda Mexican Restaurant may serve good food, but it certainly isn't very ... tasteful.
The northern Indiana eatery tried to attract customers by using billboards to joke about an infamous cult massacre in which more than 900 people died.
The billboards included the statement, "We're like a cult with better Kool-Aid," over a glass containing a frozen drink, as well as the phrase "To die for!" referring to the November 1978 Jonestown cult massacre, when more than 900 members of Jim Jones' People's Temple drank cyanide-laced, grape-flavored punch in a mass murder and suicide.
After locals complained, the company removed the signs.
"We have a responsibility to (advertise) with care, and that's why we're pulling this ad. We made a mistake and don't want to have a negative image in the community," Jeff Leslie, vice president of sales and marketing at Hacienda, told The South Bend Tribune.
Too little, too late, Hacienda. We don't really like to joke about the death of 900 people over burritos and margaritas.
The northern Indiana eatery tried to attract customers by using billboards to joke about an infamous cult massacre in which more than 900 people died.
The billboards included the statement, "We're like a cult with better Kool-Aid," over a glass containing a frozen drink, as well as the phrase "To die for!" referring to the November 1978 Jonestown cult massacre, when more than 900 members of Jim Jones' People's Temple drank cyanide-laced, grape-flavored punch in a mass murder and suicide.
After locals complained, the company removed the signs.
"We have a responsibility to (advertise) with care, and that's why we're pulling this ad. We made a mistake and don't want to have a negative image in the community," Jeff Leslie, vice president of sales and marketing at Hacienda, told The South Bend Tribune.
Too little, too late, Hacienda. We don't really like to joke about the death of 900 people over burritos and margaritas.
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Top Opinion
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LifeIsComedyPHAET 2011/02/23 19:20:49
Shazzam folks...people just sweat crap far too much to really care!
The phrase is "Drinking the kool-aide" referring to Jonestown, in which 909 people died. Something in which conservatives tend to flaunt every time they refer to a group that believes something they don't believe. You know, like saying ALL Obama supporters are drinking the kool-aide? What is funnier is that the term is inaccurate. The people in Jonestown never drank kool-aide. It was Flavor-aide. But my point is still valid. If people are going to complain about a sign that only a few thousand (if that) saw, why not address the FACT that EVERY conservative uses the Deaths of 900+ people so lightly?
And YES, I know that liberals use this term as well. It is just WAY less often. I say if we are going to complain about a restaurant doing this, we should make a big deal about it in general.
Funny thing is, I got what you said, so must not be ignorant as you feel necessary to call people, you think you might disagree with.
So since we agree on the incongruity of sign and I don't think any Conservative believes that kool-aid when spoken about liberals references the Jonestown event. Why the insult?
What kool-aid does refer to, is the intelligence of those that do drink kool-aid. CHILDREN.
They are not as smart as adults.
Talking about not being as smart another person. You do a great job of making yourself not look very smart.
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“Drinking the Kool-Aid” – What did we say before the Jonestown Massacre, in which cult members were voluntarily poisoned with a Kool-Aid-like product called Flavor Aid? This phrase refers to a cult-like mentality that can affect a group or individual who has mindlessly accepted the dogma of a group or leader.
Saying people drink a poisonous beverage, would be saying they are dead or should be.
I have never heard it equated to the Jonestown massacre, only to foolish thoughts of children.
Now the billboard specifically brings up cults.
Is the Democratic party a cult? Has it been called a cult? Show me proof.
I certainly don't think so, because not all Democrats believe the same thing. Some are even fiscally "Conservative". But who am I to try to make you believe that which you don't want to believe. I suppose it is like the "violent" Tea Partiers.
I hear so much about them, but rarely see anything even remotely violent.