{"id":131,"date":"2005-07-20T13:22:22","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T17:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/07\/20\/karl-gets-all-political-on-your-ass\/"},"modified":"2005-07-20T13:22:22","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T17:22:22","slug":"karl-gets-all-political-on-your-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/07\/20\/karl-gets-all-political-on-your-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Gets All Political On Your Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ok – it seems that every few months I write about something political or social on this blog (versus my normal ramblings about my boring day-to-day life). Today, I just had to write about this.<\/P>
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A religious group* has sent out a mass-email to people (presumably a 1,000,000 of them based on their name) requesting that they boycott and protest (call, email, snail mail, etc…) the makers of Tylenol (Johnson and Johnson) because of the following ad in the gay\/lesbian magazine, The Advocate.<\/P>
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They even warned their members to be cautious when viewing the ad because the photo was so “offensive”.<\/P>
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Anyway, this group is encouraging people to call and complain because of “Johnson & Johnson’s committment to financially support homosexuality”.<\/P>
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I’m hoping people reading this blog will do the opposite: Please call and THANK Johnson and Johnson for supporting the community (although, to be honest, they’re more trying to make money off the gay community than support a cause…we are a capitalist society, afterall). But still, this ad is placed in a gay magazine for adult gay readers…it’s not found in Good Housekeeping or Hightlights. It’s also a lot less offensive that other ads I see in mainstream publications.<\/P>
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The number to call is: 1-800-962-5357, option 5<\/FONT><\/P>
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They seem quite happy, actually, to receive these calls. Please? For little ole’ me? And if you are so inclined, email your friends about it, too! Or post it on your blog! Or scream it from the roof tops.<\/P>
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OH! And they may even mail you some FREE samples for taking the time to contact them! It’s a win\/win situation.<\/P>
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*My original draft had the name of this right-wing\/conservative organization. But I removed it because I’ve realized that people find my blog by searching for unusual things, and my web-server couldn’t handle the hits\/spam if they all decide to bombard me with comments (as I so clearly learned last week when I managed to inadvertantly shut down my blog for 4 days).  Besides, I don’t think their organization deserves anymore advertising. I did give you a bit of a hint regarding the name in the parenthesis above since they use that number as part of their name (which is scary that they could potentially have that many members contacting Johnson & Johnson…all the more reason I’d love you forever if you’d counter their efforts by calling Johnson & Johnson yourself!!)<\/P>
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Ok – it seems that every few months I write about something political or social on this blog (versus my normal ramblings about my boring day-to-day life). Today, I just had to write about this. A religious group* has sent out a mass-email to people (presumably a 1,000,000 of them based on their name) requesting that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}